Wondering if you can help. I recently found an article written almost 20 years ago by a Mary Whitechurch (nee Lewis) for the Parwich & District Local History Society telling the story of the Evans Family of Darley Abbey. I wondered if anybody knew whether Mary was still alive/contactable as I have recently been given copies of 3 photographs of possible family members which she might have been able to identify.
Regards
Barrie Lockwood
Darley Abbey History Group
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Please see the letter attached, posted on behalf of the Memorial Hall.
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Thanks to Martin C for sharing
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Thursday 18th April 7.30 pm
Blowing hot and cold – the impact of weather on English church design from 11th century to modern times
An unusual and interesting angle on church architecture over a millennium.
Speakers Stephen JD Williams and Jean Yates
£5 pp, refreshments included
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1 day late owing to the bank holiday
Plus food caddy
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Local (Pikehall) free range hen and duck eggs for sale.
£2.00 for six duck eggs
£1.50 for six hen eggs
Please phone Joan Flower on 390377, or call in.
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Trailer https://youtu.be/6ethollg-PI?si=YGHj63JE7H2ZGKxb
April Parwich Film Show ONE LIFE
You’d need a heart of stone not to be touched by this extraordinary true story of Nicholas Winton, the “British Schindler”, and by the simplicity and heartfelt directness with which it’s told by screenwriters Nick Drake and Lucinda Coxon and director James Hawes. It’s a story of wartime Europe and postwar memory, and also a noble and inspired moment in the history of British popular TV. London broker Nicholas “Nicky” Winton helps rescue hundreds of predominantly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia in a race against time before the Nazi occupation closes the borders. Fifty years later, he’s still haunted by the fate of those he wasn’t able to bring to safety.
Starring Anthony Hopkins and Helen Bonham-Carter
Guardian review ****
FRIDAY 12th APRIL 7.45PM
Free Entrance. Refreshments. Raffle
Parwich Memorial Hall
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Close Bradbourne Road Parwich for BT Cabling Works 29th May 2024 between 09:30 and 15:30
Please find details of the proposed road closure for Bradbourne Road, Parwich.
You can view the order on this link https://one.network/?tm=138158103
For any queries please email TTM.mailbox@derbyshire.gov.uk
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Click this link to read the draft minutes of the meeting of Parwich Parish Council held on the 26th March 2024.
Thankyou
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The April lunch club will now take place on 15th April not 8th April.
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With thanks to John L for this great picture and reminder that today is Darwin’s last day delivering here in Parwich.
I’m sure we all wish to thank Darwin for his many years of service to the village, during which time he has become part of our community. We wish you all the best for your retirement Darwin, and hope to still see you around.
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Update: sock and foot reunited
Blue toddler’s sock found in Monsdale Lane. Please contact Rona C on 07925 274265 .
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The next meeting of Parwich Parish Council will be held on TUESDAY the 26th March 2024 at 7:30 pm in the Memorial Hall.
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Has anyone else noticed a massive increase in their Severn Trent water bill? Mine is non metered and last year was £435.39. I have just had my bill for 2024/25 and it is now £551.28!! An increase of over 26.6%. I have raised an issue with ST but was wondering if anyone else has noticed such a huge increase?
Lesley B
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Message from James and Jo F…There will be removal trucks at Walnut Cottage (Allsop Road) today and tomorrow (19th & 20th). When they were here last, they managed to position the truck that kept traffic flowing. Thanks
James & Jo F
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From then until around 1790, he continued to develop the mills, warehouses and workshops, which now form the Cromford Mills site. In the period between 1770s and the 1790s hundreds of Arkwright style mills were built around the country, using his machines and production methods. Arkwright had shares in many of them. His invention of the waterframe to spin cotton transformed the manufacture of cotton into England’s major industry and created a system of factory production that spread throughout the world. The cotton industry was a cornerstone of the industrial revolution.
The site grew rapidly, and Arkwright needed to attract more workers to the area; he expanded Cromford Village with the building of Derbyshire’s first row of planned industrial housing on North Street in 1776. Arkwright later built the marketplace, the Greyhound Hotel, and further housing for his growing workforce to create the village you see today.
Arkwright himself started from humble beginnings as an apprentice barber and wigmaker and went on to become one of the wealthiest men in the country. Keen to display his standing, he started to build Willersley Castle and St Mary’s Church, but sadly died before both were finished.
Our tour will include the Mill site with information about the production of cotton, and the village of Cromford. We will also see the newly finished Cromford Waterpower project which has reinstated a large 6m waterwheel and installed a 15kW hydro-turbine to power the mill buildings.
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Thanks to Charles for sending in the following:
Ford is very high, and there’s a marooned Land Rover in the way.
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