Jan
4
The Christmas post brought an early treat in the form of a letter from Angela Fretter of Banffshire who enclosed some information about the life of her father. Bine Payne was the dashing bridegroom of the wedding photograph published by The Derby Telegraph that launched our writing project.
Jan
3
In 21st century Britain, the definition of ‘family’ confounds description and is capable of infinite variety!
But, as Tony Entwhistle recalls, in 1950s Borrowash, it meant Mum, Dad and 2.5 children. His family did not fit that description and he is keen to pay tribute to a ‘terrific’ mother faced with difficulties not of her making, and a social climate still in the grip of ‘Victorian values’.
Jan
2
There is evidence of human activity in Ockbrook as far back as 10000 BC (the Mesolithic) in the form of two bifacial cores of flint. A small greenstone axe head attests to Neolithic activity. There is no direct evidence from the Bronze Age [4].
Jan
1
Like many villages, 21st century Borrowash unites the bustle of the present with the romance of the past.
We bear the names of our ancestors and walk their streets. Some of us live in their houses.
But it is almost impossible to imagine what life was really like for a Borrowash villager in the seventeenth century and even the practices of sixty or seventy years ago bring to mind LP Hartley’s comment that:
