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We could, of course, all be on the wrong tack - Nottingham is also a surname.

No ! ... Really ???

Good morning Christine2 - we are equal distance between Nottingham and Derby, but always veered to Nottingham rather than Derby.
We are on the borders, and abit further down the canal, nearer to ' DH Lawrence Country'. It is lovely to sit outside the Great Northern on a summers eve and watch the barges at the basin. In fact my Dad has refurbed two of the boats on there.

Come on Heather, Please come back to us, and ask what you wanted to know.

Julia in Derbyshire

Snotingahame.....the home of the people of Snot.......I live there too lol Morning Julia and Ann.
Derek.

Morning Derek, had forgotten you lived there also. Very naughty of me. Just trying to think how many of us are in this part of the world. Feels abit lonely at times on here LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

I have just been chatting to hubby Julia and he says that it sounds as though you are about 5 or 6 miles away. He also took an interest because he often directs plays for Greasley Theatre group (he did the May play this year) and he says you are probably in the catchment area for audience lol:)) He doesn't miss a trick :))

Christine2, we are also about 5/6 miles from Greasley, and absolutely love Mintons tea room. In fact, I will probably be down at Ruben Shaws, this afternoon. Have to go regular to keep him in business, if you know what I mean. LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

Is Ruben Shaw the owner of Mintons Julia? We have often said that we ought to pop in for lunch sometime. Especially in summer as the garden seating is very pleasant. I know because they read a play in the garden once in the middle of a heatwave :)

p.s. I wonder if Heather will ever come back :) I hope we haven't put her off :)

Hi Julia....yes but like you.....I tend much more to Derbyshire cos that's where my roots are (Ashford in the Water 1757)

Am working on a family at the moment from the Cromford/Matlock bath area..and was in the Mill on Sunday..spending money!!!
..and taking pics of Edensor Graveyard on the same day.
..and Joan I am at the moment reading the harold larwood Biography..I'm a cricket nut!


Derek.

Hi Christine. No, Minton's is owned by a middle aged couple. There is a publicity blurb on the wall, telling you all about it. Rueben Shaws is the Garden Nursery, further on.. If you go down the road in the opposite direction from Nottingham, round the corner of the Horse and Groom , and follow the road as if you were going to the Resevoir, it is on the left hand side. Unfortunately, unlike the garden centres, Ruebens do not have a tea rooms. I have heard many disappointed people remarking on this, when they are walking round. The staff just direct you to Mintons.

Hi Derek, we just seemed to have gravitated to Derbyshire over the last 100 od years. I have Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Cambridgeshire and Lowland Scots, in my pedigree and OH has Kent. I think it was all to do with that jolly old Industrial Revolution, the demise of farming as such, and the invention of the Midlands Railways.
Now you are talking my kind of places. Just love the Cromford/Matlock et al area, and Edensor is just fabulous.
Talking about cricket. Well, we have just bought a caravanette, and went to look at a site, the other day, which was recommended to us. They have a cricket pitch to one side, team play in the local league, a pub, cafe opposite, and a 'as much as you can each' Chinese Restaurant over the road, to say nothing about the fishing, and being able to take the dog. Where is this utopia, you might ask. Well it is twenty minutes away, Ambergate.
Certainly won't get travel sickness going that far will I. But it is the gateway to all things glorious in Derbyshire. LOLOL
Julia in Derbyshire

When I was 14/15/16 we used to cycle to Matlock most Sundays and we often stopped on the way at a little cafe in Ambergate. I know my cafe's don't I :)) The other cafe we used was later turned into the Excavator and it had a large excavator on the roof. When I was a teenager though it was just a cafe and we used to call it flabberpaws for some reason.

p.s.We must try Ruebens for plants some time.

I've been to Nottingham! My grandmother was born in Mansfield Woodhouse! We had Yorkshire pudding and hot pot in the tea room at the lace factory thingy museum!

I did some research a few years ago for a friend in North Carolina whose gr-grfather was a Marcum, supposedly a stowaway from England. Turned out she is from a long line of Marcums going back to a Revolutionary War drummer -- her grx8 grandfather (making her officially eligible to be a Daughter of the American Revolution) -- and before that, a Sheriff of Nottingham (well ... so they say) named Markham. Once people got away from the registrars and vicars who knew how their names were spelled, they just got spelled as they were said: Marcum.

Of course, the opposite is true now. When I told my Cambridge-educated pedantic friend about my upcoming trip to England back in 94, and how we'd be visiting Notting Ham, he gently reproved me and said the locals would laugh, and I must say Nottingum.

Yes, I said, and my grandfather was born in Eastum. ;)

Christine2....The Excavator is now a Pub.....and the locals call it the Dogger...from Digger Dogger.i.e. Excavator..and the JCB is still there.....
and it used to be a good pub with good food and now its.....cr..............

Derek

Derek - how about the Canal Pub in Worksop? It was formerly the Gas Tavern (!!) and owned by my grmother's uncle. We went there in 94 ... full of boys from the narrow boats ... wished my mother wasn't with me when one gave me a tour of his. Anyhow, is it still around??

Hi janey..yup its called the Canal Tavern..and I've even got the Phone Number.in fact i was only two miles away from there this afternoon.......But Worksop is in Notts.....................

Derek

I wonder whether Heather realises what a diversion she has provided with her one-word posting!

It's good to "get away" for a while..................

Janey..if you Google "Canal Tavern Worksop" it'll show you a picture of it.....8 Canal Street Worksop.......will bring back memories for you!

Derek