When I read the Tesco was moving to M&S empty building I was under the impression they were expanding and taking the whole building ? But I'm told that's not correct - they just have a small part of it?
What's that all about

Tupton History Society 
Our last meeting is next Tuesday at 7pm
Gary Whitmore our speaker has emailed me wheat we can expect on this night. It's very impressive and I'm sure very interesting so come along and bring your own recollections of times in the mines or working for the coal board.

A message to you from Gary Whitmore  below.

 WMRG mine explorer/researcher/historian Dave Woolam will also join me. He has done some mining history presentations in the past. Our talk will be quite informal… some slides, videos, pictures and I can take you through some abandonment plans of Tupton.
We will  also be bringing lots of different artefacts. I will bring some bits I have relating to Clay Cross Company.
We would love for the evening to be quite interactive, audience participation, stories etc

This presentation is a fitting ending as it's a local lads presentation of his hobby which is exploring Derbyshires Old Mines.
The land where the  building is which we use was once used by the coal board !
Tupton and indeed Derbyshire was a mining County.
So - the last email I had from Gary was to inform me he would be showing a short video and bringing some artifacts from the groups collection.
This sounds fascinating and I'm really looking forward to it.

March 3rd 2026 at 7.00pm  Doors open at 6.30pm 

Starmers not budging - yet --- he's riding out the storm - but how long for?

It's no secret I don't like him he's like a petulant child - but I am wondering if he's dabbling with a bit of psychology.
In other words trying to 'wake Up' the European leaders in sorting out their defences??

We are closing down.
Unfortunately due to lack of people coming onboard to help to run this and our ages as we are all retired people we have taken the decision to close.
March this year will be our last presentation night.
Our treasurer is needing to retire from it due to his health and his wife a committee member is also too unwell to come anymore.
So two down.
If I fall ill there's no one to take over my role as Secretary.
However our website will be kept running and if you have never logged into Tupton Local History Society web site its worth a look as there's a lot of information and photographs on the site.
Meanwhile our next and last presentation which I'll be advertising is by a local lad who will tell us about the group he is in which goes down old Derbyshire Mines.
So a fitting ending to a Society that has brought so many good speakers into Tupton as well as some lovely people.

What a Dustbin mouth Trump has!
Insulting the Euro troops even Starmer has at last found his voice and straightened his backbone a bit.
We know he's made statements in the past about Europe and some I've taken to be a way of shaking them up a bit because lets face it Europe has become complacent in some ways so maybe I thought a method in his comments sometimes.
However he's now sunken to Gob Shite Status - he's lost the plot!!

The ones done on our road less tha  3 weeks ago need doing again!

They are wasting money not saving it!
We went around half of the village yesterday it's not too bad but several need attention. If I have the time I'll do the rest today and put them all through tomorrow ready to plop into their emails Monday morning