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The beginning of the 18th century saw the creation of the first modern orrery, a mechanical model of the solar system showing the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons.

These ideas came to define the period known as The Enlightenment and were reflected in revolutionary paintings of the time, such as Joseph Wright of ’s ‘A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery’.

The work captures how this understanding was shared and people’s receptiveness to new ideas. It is displayed at Derby Museum and Art Gallery, home to the world’s largest collection of his paintings. Others can be found at London’s National Gallery and elsewhere around the world.

People have never been more connected. The gravitational pull between the cities of Derby and London and people’s passion for achievement and advancement has never been stronger.

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04-05_Orrery_contents.indd 3 08/10/2019 13:50 EDITOR: Sarah Herbert CONTRIBUTING EDITOR: Kathryn Allen WRITERS: Sarah Herbert, Noella Pio Kivlehan, Jane McGowan, James Renoux-Wood IMAGES: BEAR, Google Art Project, Ian Dagnall / Alamy, A Philosopher Lecturing on The Orrery by with permission from Derby Museums Trust, Bloc Digital, TD Tom Davies, Mick Bishop, Burnthebook, Charlotte Jopling, The Gribbons, Bonbon Photography, Karen Robinson, Smith of Derby, Felix Cecconi / Alamy, Look / Alamy, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Paul Mayall Australia / Alamy, John Miner / Alamy, Paula Walker, James Hibbert, , Richard J Richards, Connor Goodwin, Charlotte Jopling, Averill Photography LEAD DESIGNER Tammy Kerr Design PRODUCTION MANAGER AND ILLUSTRATION Christopher Hazeldine PROJECT MANAGER Sue Mapara MANAGING DIRECTOR Toby Fox PRINTED BY: Bishops Printers

Orrery produced by 3Fox International for Marketing Derby marketingderby.co.uk

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pgs pg pg 6 12 24 22 36 ONES TO WATCH MAP MARINA Artisan coffee, high-tech Exploring the ties to London that We discover how Mercia Marina – visualisation and digital marketers are threaded throughout Derby. home to leisure seekers, aquatic make up a collection of From renowned architects to wildlife and bustling businesses – innovative enterprises. visiting rock-n-roll giants. has plans to sail into the future.

pg pg pg 8 26 40 JOSEPH WRIGHT FESTIVAL UNIVERSITY OF DERBY A relative newcomer to the scene, Vice-chancellor of the University of The story of the city’s most famous Derby Book Festival has become Derby tells us how it is central to son, his art and his legacy. a big player, with the story of its both the area’s education and its rapid rise to the top making a great arts scene. pg 14 page-turner! INTERVIEW pg pg 44 From Clark Kent to Brad Pitt, 30 HOUSES Derbyshire’s Tom Davies has TIMEPIECES Hot property alongside some of designed face furniture for the For more than 150 years, Smith of Derbyshire’s stunning landmarks. stars. We asked him how he Derby has been supplying clocks got there. and timepieces to some of London’s pg most prestigious buildings, from St 46 MAKING A MOVE pg Paul’s to the Coliseum, as well as 18 around the world. Interviews with those who have MUSIC moved between the cities – we find Hot House started in Derby, but has pg out what makes them tick. spread its innovative music schools 34 all over the UK. But founder Jon Eno DERBY DOWN UNDER pg won’t be content until the power of Tiny, hot and isolated, at first 52 music has changed the world. glance Derby’s Western Australian AMBASSADORS namesake could not be more Like what you’ve read? Find out different from our UK city. Yet even about Derby’s Ambassadors Club, in the desert there are similarities. and how you can get inolved.

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reat coffee, eclectic food, and an THE evening drink: what’s not to like? When BEAR co-founder Craig Bunting discovered this winning DAILY combination in Australia he wondered why no such thing existed GRIND Gin his native Midlands. In fact, there seemed to be little competing with the big chains, and certainly nothing offering a craft beer, or even an Old From Australia to Derby and Fashioned, to drink with your n’duja flatbread.

Soho, all fuelled on artisan For as well as offering coffee (as artisan foodstuff coffee, BEAR is causing a storm rather than a quick morning pick-me-up), BEAR offers all-day dining from a locally sourced and in an espresso cup seasonal menu, cocktails (obviously including a signature Espresso Martini), and craft beer, with

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food menus tailored specifically to each store. that people do care and they want to make Derby great. There is such a strong sense of community On returning from Australia, Craig teamed it will continue to thrive. up with friend Michael Thorley, to give their hometown Uttoxeter their unique shot of “The Cathedral Quarter is beautiful. All it needs metaphorical espresso. Their transformation is a bit more outdoor space, and the city- of a disused retail unit attracted a queue of 350 dwelling customers will flock to its sociable, people on its opening night. relaxed atmosphere.”

Now the brand has come to Derby, transforming BEAR’s adventures aren’t going to stop in the a bank on Iron Gate in the historic Cathedral Midlands. The tiny firm has been chosen by Quarter, voted ‘best city location’ at the 2016 fashion giant retailer Jack Wills to provide a Great British High Street awards. Both Craig and cosy coffee and cocktail bar in its flagship store Michael (mis)spent a lot of their youth in Derby, in London’s Carnaby Street, a collaboration so have a wealth of memories of the city. “We which started when its global property director would all head to Derby on the train from popped into the newly opened Derby branch Uttoxeter,” says Chris, “spend the day at Storm, of BEAR. Impressed by the vibe, the product the wooden indoor skate park, and head over to and the synergy between customers, he got in the skate stores of the Cathedral Quarter. touch with the founders and the rest is history. As Craig says: “Hopefully, more will come from “Later on, it was all about the music. As well as that! Watch this space.” studying music at college, which I loved, I played multiple band gigs in The Vic Inn and have fond As this issue of Orrery went to press, news memories of a small stage with a huge dog.” emerged that BEAR has just opened a second shop in Derby’s Intu shopping centre – a rare, So what does he think of the city now he’s back? and encouraging, example of an independent “I love it even more! We genuinely feel at home brand joining forces with a local giant. The only in the city. There is still lots to do, but I can see way is, indeed, up.

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PAST MASTER

Painter Joseph Wright of Derby captured the spirit of both the Enlightenment and his home city. We look at the literal and metaphorical meanings in two of his most famous paintings

orn in Derby in 1734, Wright is an scientific discovery prevalent at the time. Working internationally renowned artist, at the height of the Enlightenment, his paintings whose works adorn the walls of major offer a glimpse into this thirst for knowledge that galleries the world over. Famed as a many people, especially in the middle classes, were ‘painter of light’ and for his association beginning to have. with the intellectual movement known Bas the Enlightenment, he is now considered one of The intellectual movement saw the rejection Britain’s most interesting and wide-ranging painters. of superstition and exploration of personal and individual freedom, belief in rule of law, and an Ironically for the city’s most famous artistic son, he embracing of rationalism (learning from what we only took the ‘Derby’ suffix to distinguish himself observe, in nature and people) experimentation and from another Joseph Wright operating at the time. innovation, a spirit that lives on in Derby today. According to Tony Butler, executive director of Derby Museums, where his paintings are displayed, his “All five of Wright’s works represent this notion significance is immense, and not just to the people of of human-centred design, and the product design Derby. “He’s not as well known as Turner, Constable, process,” says Tony. “‘The Hermit’ shows the Gainsborough or other contemporaries, yet the thinking stage of initial ideas. ‘The Alchemist’ can be breadth of his work was much greater,” he says. seen as the experimental phase, while the ‘Blacksmith Shop’ represents the making, prototyping and Well placed in the home of the Industrial Revolution, shaping of idea in practical terms. Then finally we Wright started off making a living painting portraits of have the experimentation stage (depicted in the ‘Bird influential industrialists and Enlightenment thinkers in Air Pump’), and sharing your discovery with others - , , mill-owner shown in his most famous work, the ‘Orrery’.” Joseph Strutt, and members of the Lunar Society – and was also well known as a landscape artist. ‘Bird in Air Pump’, his last work, hangs permanently in the National Gallery, while ‘Orrery’ will However, his real mastery was in his historic and temporarily grace the Science Museum’s Art of scientific paintings – most famously ‘A Philosopher Innovation – From Enlightenment to Dark Matter Giving that Lecture on an Orrery, in which a Lamp is exhibition this autumn. “They are national treasures, put in the Place of the Sun’ and ‘An Experiment on and an amazing gift to the city, and help explain a Bird in the Air Pump’ – which capture the spirit of Derby as a city of making,” says Tony.

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A PHILOSOPHER GIVING THAT LECTURE ON AN ORRERY, IN WHICH A LAMP IS PUT IN THE PLACE OF THE SUN, 1766

SEE IT: Derby Museum, or London’s Science Museum in its free Art of Innovation – From Enlightenment to Dark Matter exhibition (25 September 2019 – 26 January 2020) An oil lamp, its glass jar visible behind the foremost boy’s elbow, replicates the sun’s bright rays, with Wright using the single light source to draw attention to particular elements of the work, such as the young girl pointing to Saturn and the wonder on the watchers faces, the woman deep in thought, the man taking notes. Like the sun at the centre of the universe, the light also represents science, enabling people to see and understand new discoveries. Such scientific lectures and demonstrations by travelling scientists were a popular form of public entertainment during Wright’s lifetime. Wright was master of communicating understanding and sharing of knowledge, and his links to some of the greatest thinkers of the 18th century, including the Lunar Society, gives him scientific validity.

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AN EXPERIMENT ON A BIRD IN THE AIR PUMP, 1768

SEE IT: National Gallery, London Alive with the tensions and the excitements of its moment, this is all about the spectacle of science and how it woos the public. A travelling scientist demonstrates the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing an unfortunate cockatoo. The bird will die if he continues to deprive it of oxygen, and Wright leaves us in doubt as to its fate. The standing man who stares directly back at us – the only one who does so in this painting – is in charge of this bird’s destiny. He is demonstrating the marvels of not-so-contemporary science (air pumps were invented in the 17th century) in front of a captive audience. Wright was a great master of dramatisation through the use of light, in this instance a single candle, while in the window the moon appears. This candle-light (though where is the candle?) floods each of the faces, some in profile, others full-face, revealing a wide range of individual reactions in great detail, from the frightened children, through the reflective philosopher, the excited interest of the youth on the left, to the indifferent young lovers concerned only with each other.

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BLOC- BUSTERS From Rolls-Royce to China, digital visualisation has taken Bloc Digital a long way

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or Bloc Digital, it’s been a busy year. set and services. Over the years we have added Even 19 years after its formation, a number of blue chip companies to our client it has doubled its staff numbers to list such as Siemens, JCB, JLR, BAE Systems, 50, and is expecting a turnover this General Dynamics and Shell.” financial year of £2.1 million. So what’s next? Says Keith: “We are looking to FSo what’s Bloc’s niche? According to the website, move into new premises in about a year’s time as it specialises in the creation and re-use of digital we are out-growing our current location. information, creating highly engaging content We will definitely be based in or close to Derby and effective solutions. Or, to the non-technically city centre.” minded, it supplies bespoke digital visualisations to industry. As director Keith Cox says: “If it’s The city has so far done Bloc proud. Quite apart digital and needs to be visualised, that’s what from the Rolls-Royce connection, it’s been a we’re about”. great place to find great-quality, qualified staff to join the company as it grows. Bloc has Such visualisation includes anything from high- also partnered with the University of Derby, end 3D animations for use in exhibitions or taking advantage of post-graduates, ‘year in marketing or web apps and cross-platform tools, industry’ placements and knowledge transfer to virtual reality software or augmented reality partnerships programmes. maintenance support, where you can follow step- by-step instructions in a 3D projection. Bloc has also recently addressed a special event hosted by Derby and Derbyshire’s investment Such technology is in fact in action in Keith’s promotion agency, Marketing Derby in Hefei, current favourite project, a virtual reality China as part of a trade mission to the World training package for Rolls-Royce, whose global Manufacturing Convention. civil aerospace HQ is in Derby, as part of its IntelligentEngine vision. Qatar Airways engineers And finally? “We are in the process of creating are being partially trained on the repair and our first piece of software as product, a VR maintenance of Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB engine, training authoring tool which will allow people which powers the Airbus A350, in the virtual who are not coders to create and publish VR realm. The engines would otherwise have to be training applications. This will turn Bloc into a detached from the plane and transported to Doha service and product provider for the first time, for training, or a plane taken out of service. giving us a second income stream.”

Rolls-Royce is in fact where the Bloc Digital story It seems that even in the digital age, Derby is still started. “Fellow director Chris Hotham and I the UK Capital for Innovation. both used to work at Rolls-Royce in the training centre, creating digital 3D versions of its aero engines for use in animations and images within If it’s digital and needs e-learning packages. to be visualised, that’s “In 2000 we left to set up on our own, and what we’re about continued to supply them with the same skill

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12-13_Orrery_Bloc_Busters3.indd 13 08/10/2019 13:58 SPECS APPEAL From early Derbyshire roots to spectacle maker to the stars, designing bespoke eye-wear is his superpower. Orrery talks to Tom Davies about manufacturing, the future and famous faces

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technical college in nearby Burton-on-Trent first, doing an art ground course and then a foundation in art. Then I went on to Ipswich where I did a little bit of everything, from film set design to fine art and everything in between. Designing glasses was my first creative job out of university. I went to Hong Kong for an adventure, sort of like a gap year but with a suit and my portfolio.

erbyshire-born Tom Davies began his glasses What are the factors that influenced the location business in 2002, after some experimental of your business, here and in China? years designing in Hong Kong. By 2014 he I had a lot of contacts from my time in Hong was designing glasses for that most famous of Kong and since my seed funds were my dad’s bespectacled superheroes – Clark Kent. Since mortgage and a startup loan from HSBC, I had Dthen, he has opened a factory operation in to do it as cheaply as possible. These days I China (in 2008), brought it back to London (in decided I needed to be investing in Britain and 2017), and created face furniture for Ed Sheeran frankly... I’m fed up flying to Hong Kong every and Heston Blumenthal, while both Angelina two months. Jolie and Brad Pitt have sported his work in blockbuster films. What drives your entrepreneurial spirit? The business now has 200 staff, 400 UK I discovered eyewear, not something which stockists and an annual turnover of £8 million, screams at you as a career choice. It’s a totally with glasses ranging in price from £300 to underrated area of design, but one of the most £10,000 (an understated 18-carat gold pair of significant places a creative person can work. sunglasses with gold-plated lenses). What I design and manufacture can genuinely change someone’s life. A great set of You studied product design, I believe. How did glasses, perfectly fitted will define how you look you settle upon designing glasses in particular? and how you are perceived, as well as giving you Is it your passion, or the result of a series of great vision. Seeing the smile on someone’s face fortunate events? when they first put on their bespoke glasses is Definitely the latter. My degree was actually a something I will never tire of. general art and design degree. I studied at the It’s why I come to work.

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What is your creative process and how do you get blended with some modern automation, all inspired? Do you design with someone in mind? powered by our own software (which I also I always start with a person in mind. I don’t like created) which runs the entire process. to design something for the sake of design. I always think “who is going to buy this, how old In the same vein, how do you balance ecological are they, what’s their job, what does this frame considerations with ease of manufacture, light say about them”. This is why even my off-the- weight, etc? shelf glasses are still 50% of my business. I’ve started recyling the material we are using. My glasses, in general, just fit people Usually, 80% of the acetate we use gets wasted. and personalities. We now scoop it out the machines, re-press it and make new recycled acetate. It’s a brand Do you design alone? And if not, are you looking new process as far as I know but its great fun at how to bring on future talent in the industry? and feels good. I’m also changing our plastic I am the only designer in the business. Yet we packaging to biodegradable plastics and I’m make around 3,000 bespoke glasses per month. installing solar panels on top of my factory. So, I have a team of engineers who create CAD There is a lot more to be done but I’m also proud drawings, and trained opticians all over the world to say that my glasses, locally produced don’t to use my system to re-design my frames for need to be flown 6,000 miles around the world! their customers. That said... it’s time for me to bring in some TAKE THE RISK new creative talent. I’ve launched a brand called Catch London [rolling out into Boots opticians So what’s next? Will you stick with spectacles, or all over the UK from September 2019] and its are you looking for the next avenue to explore? just too much design for me now. I’ve also got I dabbled with accessories in the past but there a company to run. So, I had two frame designer is just too much to be done with eyewear. I love positions open and interviewed in August [2019]. eyewear. I know it’s my superpower. I don’t think I should do anything else. How do technological advances influence you, and how are you looking to develop the business? Where will we next see your designs on the silver, I’ve worked on all the latest movements. I or small, screen? And adorning which celebrity? actually consult for various tech businesses on Ah ha.... I would SO love to tell you that. I’ve two their augmented reality attempts at launching big films out next year which are top secret and a bespoke service. I’ve also worked on similar quite a big deal. But, I can say that if you watched projects with Google Glass. the new Spiderman film this summer, Tom But for Tom Davies, I prefer to use Holland and Jake Gyllenhaal can be seen wearing technology behind the scenes. Although I try to glasses we made in London. make my frames elegant and timeless, the factory is a high-tech powerhouse. I reinvented the And finally, something we all want to know: production process that I started in my factory what’s the secret of your success? in China to allow us to make bespoke frames. I offer this advice. Take outrageous risks. Be the Then, in London, I had to do it all again, using a hardest working person you know. Do something subtle blend of traditional craftsman techniques you love.

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Founded in Derby, Hot House is a chain of innovative music education schools, whose holistic approach is seeing them grow nationally and abroad. We talk to its founder, Jon Eno, about what makes the school different, and how music changes lives

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choose. “As we want children to love what they do, we encourage them to follow their dreams. While we offer advice on the best options, we want them to do something that inspires them.”

They get to experience music from a number of different genres, as “the skills are transferable and what you learn in one culture can be used to enrich the music of another,” says Eno. usic has the power to make the world a better place. It is the universal language which enriches Students can even go on tour. This year saw six- and engages people from all corners of society.” year-olds performing at Disneyland Paris, and So says Jon Eno, professional trumpet player 18-year-olds at the Lyon conservatory of music. and part of the Eno music clan (his cousins are Last years gifted and talented students embarked Brian Eno, keyboard player for Roxy Music and upon a coast-to-coast tour of America, stopping U2 producer, and Roger Eno, BBC music writer), at Boston, New York, New Orleans, Los Angeles founder of Hot House and recent recipient of the and San Francisco. Next year, young musicians “MBritish Empire Medal, awarded for ‘hands-on’ from all over Derby will be performing at venues service to the local community. alongside the Olympics in Tokyo, followed by further adventures in Hong Kong and Singapore. A dedicated educator, Jon is passionate about the value of music in young people’s lives. Hot House has an innovative approach to “The ability to listen and to work as a team are educational theory. “While working in the US fundamental concepts vital to both a successful as a professional musician, I experienced a music ensemble and in career as an essential part fundamentally different approach to teaching. It of a creative workforce.” appeared to me that Americans always focused on what the children COULD do, not what they His brainchild Hot House was founded in Derby were less good at. So if they were great at sports in 2002, and now delivers an award-winning then they were encouraged to be a program of services to young people across the leader in this field. The focus was UK, with schools being launched in Singapore, on playing to their strengths. France and Canada. More than 2,000 students have ‘graduated’ from the holistic programmes, “The UK method of with alumni going on to lead in each of their learning appears to specialist chosen fields, whether as the drummer be the antithesis of for Noel Gallagher or Paloma Faith or the chief this, particularly legal counsel for the Paralympic committee. in music: if you are unable to do The pupils, aged between six and 18, have something, such individual lessons in woodwind, brass, rhythm as play high or or voice, or join an ensemble/choir (or both), play a solo, then guided by staff, alumni and student mentors, and you’re encouraged tailored to their specific aspirations and talents. to focus on these areas. Always focusing The children make most of the decisions on what they can’t do, themselves, including which instrument to rather than what they can,

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means that young musicians become disengaged from learning. I was inspired to engage and revitalise youth music “Coming from a family of musicians and educators, I was inspired to develop a curriculum education in the UK and approach that would engage and revitalise youth music education in the UK.” thinking skills and powers of processing in a way that gives them a direct boost when choosing their Key to this approach is the fact that children future career pathways.” are encouraged to join an ensemble very early on, with the fun sessions playing recognisable This comes in very useful in the future. “Not music. As the students also continue with every student wants to pursue a career in music. private instrument lessons at Hot House, they Of 100 students, 97 will choose to go into progress quickly through the levels of ensemble, medicine, law, vetinerary science, engineering ultimately becoming mentors. etc. But we want all of our students to value ‘what’ and ‘how’ they learnt with Hot House, and Eno says this ensemble approach makes Hot are as proud of the students who choose non- House different from other music schools. And music career paths as those who opt for music.” it’s based on science. “We believe that music has the power to develop your critical thinking and Eno is utterly passionate about his vision, and thought processing skills,” he says. “The ability the way he enables music to change lives. One of to process more than one type of stimuli is key to his proudest moments illustrates this power in successful learning in music. All young students microcosm. “On our last tour to Lyon, our young are expected to process movement, aural, external musicians where doing a street performance, and visual information streams simultaneously. As and interacting with the general public whilst a result our alumni are used to using their critical performing. One of our students from the Lyon

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school hadn’t seen his father for seven months – Capaldi and Will Young, to showcase the creative he was a kitchen porter who worked from 4am to content of our alumni and staff. All profits will 10pm. His father did not know that his son was be shared equally between the alumni/staff and playing saxophone with us. We happened to walk the current students in Hot House programmes. past the restaurant where ‘dad’ was working. “We are about to start phase two of our expansion plans, with another 30+ schools “The owner wouldn’t let him leave, so we opened planned for the UK next year, while offering the windows and ‘dad’ leaned out and watched, music production and music theatre schools enthralled, as his son performed alongside our alongside all of our current schools. Saxophonix ensemble (from Derby). At the end of the performance the son ran to his dad and And finally, a word about his roots. “None of this gave him the best hug ever! Both were in tears, as would be possible if it weren’t for the amazing were many of the hundreds of people looking on. human resources and connections I have in That was when the power of music truly hit me.” Derby. I believe the city has the world’s greatest talent pool and am personally trying to stem So what next for Hot House? “We are developing the ‘arts brain drain’ from the city, and cement a record label, headed up by Alex Archer, the Derby’s reputation for being a city of innovation sound engineer for VEVO, Kasabian, Lewis and inspiration.”

A FEW OF THE ALUMNI: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? MUSIC NON-MUSIC • Ed Richardson: drummer with recorded with Little Mix, Olly • Nic Jones: CEO of Serious Noel Gallagher, Sophie Murs and Ella Eyre; and been About Trade, advising business Ellis-Bextor, Mica Paris, Rumer on soundtracks for Downton on sustainable and Kwabs, Espa, Hudson Taylor, Abbey and Mr Selfridge. low risk international sales Imelda May, Jools Holland, • Lily Sturt-Bolshaw: singer/ • Dan Miller: CEO of Young Gregory Porter and Clare Teale. songwriter with band Professionals UK, technology • George Hogg: trumpeter who’s Sunflower Thieves. based recruitment company toured with Frankie Valli • Other musicians are playing for young people & the Four Seasons, Gloria with Tom Jones, Pixie • Elizabeth Riley: legal counsel Estefan, and Ronnie Lott and Michael Buble, in the to the Paralympic Committee Scott’s Jazz Orchestra; BBC Big Band and X Factor.

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PICKFORD HOUSE 1 Derby-born architect Joseph Pickford (b. 1734) trained at his uncle’s London office, during which time he worked as a builder on the Horse Guards Parade. He built this house in 1770.

ONE FRIAR GATE SQUARE 2 London-based developers Jensco built this iconic cubist structure, which is occupied by the University of Derby as the base for its Law School.

LONDON CALLING THE KING’S HALL 3 Punk juggernauts The Clash played the venue in 1977 during their early “Get Out of Control” tour. The site is now home to the Queen’s Leisure Centre.

THE ASSEMBLY ROOMS 4 Designed by Kensington based firm Casson Conder Partnership, whose senior partner Sir Hugh Casson was the architectural director for London Southbank.

RAILWAY TECHNICAL CENTRE 5 Owned by LCR (London and Continental Railways) and occupied by companies such as Atkins, Network Rail and Loram UK, the centre also houses incubation hubs for the University of Derby to help foster start-ups.

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SMALL BUT MIGHTY For this Derby-based digital marketing agency, a creative approach to solving its clients’ problems is what keeps it punching above its weight

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or a small firm – a mere However, the firm has a lot of 12 people – Burnthebook connections in the South East. “Phil is a big hitter, working is originally from Cambridge and with anything from used to work for Pearson Publishing, gaming company Sega to and we still have some of his contacts London-based NGOs, and as clients 20 years on,” says Jackie. “We Fwith a turnover that has doubled in the past did consider moving further south very early three years. Director Jackie Clarke puts this on as the majority of our clients are London- or down to the company’s particular approach to overseas-based, but we decided the quality of life problem-solving and communication. was far better here in Derbyshire.

“When asked: ‘Why do you want to do this?’,” “Our location has never really been an issue says Jackie, “many companies will answer regarding meeting with clients, thanks to online ‘Because I think this is what I need to do’, with communication tools. We did open a London no explanation or solid research to back-up their office at the start of the year, but it’s more a response. So, from the very start, Burnthebook base for client meetings and an address for our challenges what its clients want and explores international clients who are more familiar with their needs. We believe this approach cements London than Derby. our relationship with them and provides good reasons to stay with us. The company’s clients range from Camp America to a Lake Como wedding planner. So “Our focus is always on understanding what our what’s Jackie’s current favourite project? “It has clients do, what their needs are and what their to be launching the marketing site for the game future vision is for their business.” Football Manager 2020. We love working with the Sports Interactive (Sega Europe) team, and As digital strategy design consultants, have become an extension of their marketing Burnthebook specialises in website development, team, working in a very collaborative way, which design and brand identity, print publishing and is exactly what we love. There is some very e-commerce (its experimental platform Purveya exciting stuff coming up with Sega, but nothing ended up selling more Alessi homewares than we can discuss at this point!” Birmingham Selfridges). What else is next? “We’re planning to launch an The small and tight-knit team of designers and offshoot of Burnthebook early in 2020 which developers all sit together, plan together and focuses more on our scientific/government work side-by-side, ensuring synergy across publishing work, one of our specialisms, and a the various areas, efficiency and streamlined dying art that we feel very passionate about.” processes, thus maximising output.

Phil Newson, MD, founded the business in 1999 We challenge what our having recently moved to Derbyshire. “Derby’s central location has given us great links to the clients want and rest of the UK, making it easier for the company explore their needs to service our UK clients,” says Jackie.

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In a mere four years, the annual Derby Book Festival has become a firm favourite among authors and audiences alike, celebrating the joy of books and reading for all ages and interests... Watch out Hay-on-Wye!

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BOOKS

LIZ FOTHERGILL, CHAIR OF DERBY BOOK FESTIVAL

ince its creation in 2015 by two local book-lovers What was the highlight of the 2019 event? Markus Zusak, the multi-million, best-selling with no commercial book experience, Derby Book Australian author. Of the few events he did in Festival has grown from 60 to 90 events, more the UK, one was Hay International Festival and than doubled its ticket sales to nearly 7,000, and another Derby Book Festival! among its 100 participating authors has welcomed Stwo Poet Laureates (Simon Armitage and Carol What do you love about the festival? Ann Duffy), three Children’s Laureates (Michael Two things. The planning stage, when every year Morpurgo, Lauren Child and Cressida Cowell) and we start afresh with a blank piece of paper, a many internationally renowned authors: Sebastian huge pile of publishers’ catalogues and lots of Faulks, Sarah Waters, David Nicholls, Tracy ideas. And then the atmosphere and excitement Chevalier, Margaret Drabble and Markus Zusak. of the festival when so many people come together to hear their favourite authors talk about books that we have all loved reading. Yet despite this wide range of subjects, events and nationalities featured, it also retains a local How is it different from other book festivals? focus, featuring books and authors local to, or We try to have an eclectic mix and a good mix featuring, Derby or Derbyshire’s unique flavour. of authors from international best sellers, like Markus Zusak and Sebastian Faulks, to local writing talent as well as debut authors, as well a strong schools and children’s programme. We also like to vary the topics each year, while retaining a local flavour e.g. , Joseph Wright. We like to think we have something from everyone, whatever your age and interest.

And how come it’s such a hidden gem? We hope it isn’t! We have increased ticket sales from 3,000 in our first year to nearly 7,000 in our fifth! We want everyone to know about it, as the programme really does have something for everyone, whatever your age or interests.

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WHAT THE AUTHORS SAY

Derby Book Festival is one of the best festivals in the country, and it always does so much for the community STEPHEN BOOTH

I had a lovely time both at the festival and exploring Derby. Thank you all for making me so welcome PATRICK GALE

Thank you so much for making Helga’s debut so special! So appreciate it. What a festival! Loved Derby Book KAREN SULLIVAN, ORENDA Festival – and such a BOOKS, WITH HELGA wonderful audience too! FLATLAND, AUTHOR ELIZABETH MACNEAL

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WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAYS I enjoyed it immensely and loved chatting to members of The organisation has been wonderful, the audience and every minute has been a delight. It afterwards is an amazing highlight in the year and a TRACY BORMAN wonderful contribution to the cultural life of Derby and Derbyshire.

Love the variety of content and the perceptions they challenge. I always leave entertained for an evening, but enlightened for a lifetime. And better for it. My thanks to all involved for all their efforts.

The three authors were all so fascinating, I would have liked each of them speaking for an hour! A great event, thank you – it has inspired me to read new authors. I can now look at these sorts of things as both a rookie author Loved this event and the debut authors’ talks. and an experienced publicist, and I have I have read this book but the event really bought it to life for me. to say that what you are doing with this (book) award is incredibly meaningful Very well organised and hosted! Looking and beautifully organised at the rest of the festival there are lots of LAUREN ACE different topics included in the programmes, so something for everyone. I go to lots of book festivals, and some are more charming and warmer than others. Derby is definitely now up there amongst my favourites ROSE GEORGE

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME Derby is well known as the UK capital of trains, planes and automobiles. But did you also know that as hometown to Smith of Derby, it is also the world capital of time. The company’s MD Bob Betts tells us more

he Victorian creation of the UK railway network It all started 163 years ago when John Smith transformed the nation, bringing cities closer bought clock machinery that had belonged to together. It transformed Derby into the centre of the celebrated Whitehurst dynasty, his former industry and technology that we know today. And employer, and a few years later moved his set up in 1856, a mere 20 years after the arrival of the to 27 Queen Street, Derby, in the centre of what’s first train into the station, it also saw the birth of now known as the Cathedral Quarter of the city. John Smith & Sons, Midland Clockworks, Derby The company now operates from a dedicated – known today as Smith of Derby – creators and workshop facility just north of Derby and only custodians of some of the most important public a mile from The Silk Mill, the site of the world’s timepieces the world over. first factory and a world UNESCO heritage site.

As railways expanded across the world, so did In its first few decades the company grew into Smith of Derby, its early ‘regulator clocks’ timing one of the biggest names in the horological world, the railway timetables across the British Empire. leading Lord Grimthorpe, designer of the clock Today, its timepieces adorn public, private and on the Elizabeth Tower (Big Ben) to recommend Treligious sites, palaces, castles, and civic and that “Smith of Derby will clock you in the best academic buildings across the world. way, and as near eternity as possible”. On his

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recommendation, in 1893 Smith built the clock the company fit for a very long-term future, with for St Paul’s Cathedral, until 2010 the largest recent awards for its apprenticeship programme traditional clock on earth. The record was only and investments in technology to reduce its beaten by Smith, again, with its world-record carbon footprint is testimony to both a focus on 15m-diameter traditional clock for the City of emerging talent and protecting the environment. Ganzhou in China, called Harmony Tower Clock. In the past three years, it has appointed four In the past, when most people didn’t have a apprentices and two administration apprentices, watch, almost no important public building was plus further early career appointments in built without a clock. These days most, if not machining/fabrication, design and electronics all, public clocks and features of any importance (the latter two at graduate level), earning it the and value to a community are now subject to award of ‘Apprenticeship Employer of the Year’, a listed building or preservation order of some from a field of 1,300. The award citation said kind. Smith of Derby conserves, restores and Smith “has consistently given the apprentices maintains approximately 4,000 of these pieces in excellent opportunities to develop and progress. the UK alone, with around 20 clockmakers in the We cannot praise Smith of Derby sufficiently field and more in the Clock Works. for the time, effort and money they commit to their apprentices”. It has created and installed timepieces in more than 50 countries – in the Middle East, South In some ways a more profound accolade came Africa, and Europe in this year alone. One of the from a parent who stated in an unprompted largest recent international projects has been letter of gratitude that “I see Smith’s as more the design and creation of the feature clocks in than a company of people, but a strong and Waldorf Astoria hotels across the world, the most supportive family with strong values and recent being in Dubai this year. commitment to helping each other... a complete package... I know my son values the investment This sixth-generation wholly owned family Smith of Derby are making for his future.” Now company has a fixed eye on the goal of making that’s a ringing endorsement.

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LONDON PROJECTS

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS, PICCADILLY, LONDON This HLF-funded project involved a full repair and restoration of the beautiful clock dial, weather dial and weather vane on the Grade II-listed building. The 5’ 6” clock dial from the left hand tower and the weathervane dial from the right hand tower were removed from the building and taken to Smith of Derby clockworks for restoration and reinstatement.

COLISEUM, ST MARTIN’S LANE, LONDON Built in 1904, the London Coliseum home to the English National Opera is the largest proscenium theatre in and the masterwork of Frank Matcham, leader of turn of the century theatre architecture. In 2004, it underwent a £41 million restoration programme, including the overhaul of the unique 4m-diameter globe sculpture atop its roof. Originally intended as a rotating sphere, it IMAGES: A range had remained static for most of of Smith of Derby the theatre’s life, with the effect of timepieces across movement given through illumination. the globe, from ornate clocks that add Smith of Derby re-engineered the flourish at high-end whole feature, and installed power establishments to transmission to enable the lettering robust-yet-beautiful to be lit up. The globe, driveshaft and faces designed to mechanism weigh 5 tonnes, and offer stand the test of time. variable rotation speed.

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DERBY WESTERN AUSTRALIA

It would be hard to find a town more different to RETURN ADDRESS: Derby than its WA namesake. Its warmest month DERBY, KIMBERLY is January, with an average high of 35°C; it has WESTERN AUSTRALIA no rainfall for eight months of the year; and it’s tiny, with a population of 3,325. Yet it’s a positive Airways, and more recently as a centre for the metropolis for its region – the vast, 423,517sq km Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air. Kimberly – being only one of three towns with a population over 2,000. It’s also incredibly remote: Also like Derby, UK, it has a diverse economy, its nearest neighbour of Broome is 220km away. with employment in the pastoral and mining industries. There is oil at Blina, diamonds in the The coastal Derby WA has the highest tides Phillips Range, stone in the King Leopold Ranges in Australia, with a spectacular, and tourist- and lead and zinc from Cadjebut, and exported attracting, 11.8m differential between low and from the extensive Derby Wharf. high tides. But perhaps its most famous features are its boab trees, one of which, at 1,500 years old, It also hosts two festivals. One, the Mowanjum is so large and hollow it had been used as a prison. Festival, is held among the indigenous population – 47% of the town are of aboriginal However, like Derby UK, it was once a transport descent – while the week-long Boab Festival hub, in the 1920s the terminus of Australia’s includes traditional Australian events such as first scheduled aviation service, West Australian mud football and watermelon seed spitting.

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As a haven for boaters, walkers, workers, tourists, nature, business, and now bees, Mercia Marina is a microcosm of the world. We take a look at the past, present and future evolutions of Derbyshire’s inland marina

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We wanted to make use of what came naturally - the flora and fauna - to encourage it and make it a feature

t may have been four years ago, but beating a large lake, completed with a centerpiece of world-renowned architect to scoop building three islands. of the year is still something Mercia Marina’s general manager Robert Neff brings up early in So how did it all start? Back in 2008 the marina, the conversation. owned by leisure and travel company Madecorn Leisure (whose majority shareholders include Opening in 2015, the Boardwalk building had former Thorntons chairman John Thornton already picked up a regional award for Best and his cousin Michael Thornton of Derbyshire Small Commercial building in its first year when chocolate fame) was totally underdeveloped. Iit went up against the might of Zaha Hadid’s London Serpentine Sackler Gallery at the grand There was a vision, says Robert, “to inject some final of the Local Authority Building Control’s coastal and river port ideas into a canal marina, Building Excellence Awards – and came out top. which are normally very staid and traditional, As Robert says: “You can create bog standard and to do it on a grand scale. We also wanted to buildings, or you can create something special.” make use of what came naturally - the flora and fauna - to encourage it and make it a feature.” It’s certainly an achievement to beat the woman who designed the London 2012 Olympic Aquatics To help finance the marina’s development Centre, among others. But getting the award also Robert, who has been with the scheme since the signifies everything that’s been achieved at the beginning, says they simply “focused on getting marina since its opening in 2008 on a 10ha site at the marina working well. Willington Lake. “We put in all the luxury services for the boaters, Attracting over one million visitors annually, and they came, they kept on coming and they the marina is now home to numerous boaters, stayed. We charged competitive prices for it. We residents and SME businesses, as well as 17 listened to what they wanted. We became part of shops, two restaurants, two cafés and one bar, their family. They became part of ours. And that and has become a lauded conservation and provided us with a solid financial footing in order biodiversity area microcosm. to do the rest of the development.”

And it is ever evolving and growing. The last Building a series of mini marinas within the two years saw more lodges and offices open, as larger marina created a sense of intimacy. “It’s well as an added focus on nature, wildflower small. It’s intimate. It’s private... with all the meadows, and bees, with a new holiday lodge services of a very large marina supporting it.” area developed over the past 12 months, with a This solid financial footing helped the creation

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of business hubs, lodges, more retail and leisure, balance between humans and nature has been and its famed biodiversity. central to all thinking. The site holds a Gold Award for outstanding contribution to the The Boardwalk, and the 2,500sq m Piazza natural environment from British botanist and Building (HQ of global pharmaceutical company conservationist David Bellamy. Bionical) provide the office arm. On the holiday lodge side, another new lodge development TV personality Bellamy has been instrumental in opened June 2019, adding another 32 lodges each encouraging holiday parks to adopt a greener and selling for a minimum of £200,000. more eco-friendly approach.

“We will be putting in more shops and offices. “What this showed is we can build and build, and We haven’t finalised the plans yet, but it will be put large amounts of people around it, but still within the next three years,” says Robert, who balance nature and development,” says Robert. adds they will be looking for tenants – such as architects, software firms or professional bodies The marina’s reputation for biodiversity is – within the next year. incredibly important to them. “It’s one of the main things that gives us pleasure,” adds Robert. At present, there are no more plans for Currently, one of the marina’s main aims residential, to maintain the right balance is breeding bees, and has even sponsored a between commerce and residential. volunteer group to buy cocoons of bees. To Across the whole development, keeping a encourage the bees’ natural habitat, three

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We can build and build, for large amounts of people, but still balance nature and development

wildflower meadows have been planted, along people to embrace nature more. We want them with a cottage garden. “The bees are flourishing, to get out and we have introduced maps telling and one of our targets is to promote this success them what the trees are. We have done the same more,” he says. with the wildflowers.”

Also just planted is ‘the Park’. Finished in April, As for the marina’s future, Robert says: “We have and modelled on a Royal Park, the Park has decided to keep on developing and improving for great sweeps of grassland, and £20,000-worth of the next 10 years we are committed to. It’s been semi-mature trees standing alone. Robert says: a huge pleasure for us building a community “We’ve created a mini version of Regent’s Park or because it is a strong community. Hyde Park, because it’s a wonderful thing to walk around those. “It’s been a pleasure creating wonderful buildings; it’s a pleasure building a wonderful He adds: “The dog walkers love it. But we want marina. And we are delighted at the outcome.”

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EDUCATION, EDUCATION... Professor Kathryn Mitchell, vice-chancellor of the University of Derby, explains how her institution is at the heart of its city and county; their industry and arts

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One such project is DerwentWISE, a partnership hosted by Derbyshire Wildlife Trust made up of 15 local and national organisations concerned with the preservation of the Lower Derwent Valley, its internationally important ancient nnovation is at the heart of Derby and its region, woodlands, pre-industrial archaeology, diverse and pivotal to ensuring the success of the geology and species-rich meadows, as well as businesses, schools, and community, in Derby the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, and its county, is our university, with campuses considered the birthplace of the factory system. in Buxton, Chesterfield, and in Derby itself. The partnership was awarded £1.7 million of Over the past five years, we have been Heritage Lottery Funds in 2013, and through involved in many exciting regional projects, working with local, national and international collaborating with local authorities, local partners in the USA and Germany, has already Ienterprise partnerships (LEPs), businesses started to transform the area. University of and national funders, with the aim of improving Derby academics are conducting research to opportunities for those working and living in support the scheme, via four mapping and Derby and Derbyshire. photographic projects.

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Meanwhile in Buxton, we are involved in residencies, conferences and collaborations in extensive restoration work to the town’s the UK and internationally, and welcomes over centrepiece Grade I-listed crescent, and 100,000 visitors from all over the world. consequent re-invigoration of the famous spa town. Funded by an HLF grant, with support All universities have a fundamental role in from D2N2 LEP, the partnership is providing attracting people to study and learn in their a fantastic opportunity for our students who, region, helping to regenerate our cities and together with staff, are working on the relocation supporting our communities through our of Buxton’s new visitor centre, the events civic duty, but our greatest responsibility is in programme and oral history project work, as educating and transforming the lives of people. well as on enhancing the visitor experience with digital innovations. There will also be plenty of I am chair of the Derby Opportunity Area Board, chances for them to gain valuable real-world and by working with others, and with the full work experience through student led events, commitment of staff and communities, our city placements and volunteering opportunities. is taking great strides to improve outcomes for young people. We champion social mobility and Back in Derby itself, we are linked to 14 arts and strive to inspire and create opportunities for all cultural organisations across the city and county across our region and beyond, regardless of age, – such as Derby Theatre, , Derby Book background or location. The University of Derby is Festival, ArtCore, Sinfonia Viva and Déda – all a significant heartbeat in our city and our region, with the aim of forging successful and inspired and we take seriously the responsibility we have to collaborations, and promoting our city as a place drive the economic, social, cultural, educational and of creativity. environmental prosperity of our home.

Derby Theatre is one of the few theatres in the country to be owned and run by a university. STAY CONNECTED While this gives our students a rare and exceptional experience, as well as staging Derby is extremely proud of its alumni. They critically acclaimed productions, the Theatre’s achieved so much while studying, and the vision is much broader, providing multiple university continues to celebrate their ongoing leisure and learning opportunities for Derby’s success after they have graduated. The extensive diverse community. alumni community champions the University of Derby and the region across the globe, and there is Taking work into the community where theatre always an open door with the university whenever is not normally seen ensures the work is relevant, they need it. exciting and genuinely reflects people’s stories and lived experiences, and that the theatre learns Many alumni come back to support, inspire and with and from our wider community. mentor students, and some help the university philanthropically, enabling future generations to We also co-host the UK’s leading festival of continue to have as many opportunities to succeed international photography, FORMAT, as they once did. If you are an alumnus and want to which organises a year-round programme stay connected, contact [email protected] of international commissions, open calls,

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All universities have a fundamental role in helping to regenerate our cities and supporting our communities

IMAGES: The University of Derby’s Kedleston Road campus (top). The Derby Theatre - run by the University of Derby (above), and FORMAT, the international photography festival, co-hosted by the university (right)

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LANDMARK LIVING Put yourself on the Derbyshire map

erbyshire is known for the the county to enjoy the type of outstanding beauty of its quality lifestyle afforded by such D landscape, its world-class surroundings – walking the moors heritage assets and as the birthplace and tors of the Peak District, of the Industrial Revolution. sampling mouth-watering local Many people choose to move produce and exploring the award- their businesses and families to winning market towns and villages.

WALLED GARDEN IN MARKET TOWN Location: Bakewell Price: £1,100,000 Agent: Blenheim Park Estates

This five-bedroom, three-bathroom family home, converted from a gardener’s cottage, has a mixture of contemporary and period features, a wonderful walled garden and views over Bakewell.

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HISTORIC SPA TOWN, OVERLOOKING PAVILION GARDENS Location: Buxton Price: £1,995,000 Agent: Fisher German Thorneycroft is a tall and handsome stone 250M FROM seven-bedroom house, full of beautiful CARSINGTON WATER stone original features and stained glass, Location: Matlock and even a billiard room. It comes with an Price: £2 million additional lower ground-floor apartment Agent: Fine and Country and two independent cottages. Brand new six-bed, five-bathroom future-proof stone house, with many eco features, on two acres of land with amazing views. If you’re quick, there’s still time to choose the flooring and fixtures!

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MAKING A MOVE Insights into both Derby and London, from four people who’ve lived and worked in both.

NAME: IMOGEN CLARKE, 24 JOB: SALES EXECUTIVE COMPANY: HACHETTE PUBLISHING

“Roald Dahl went to my school,” says Imogen. But it is back home that she has seen real innovation It’s a simple statement about the world-famous in culture happening – particularly with the Derby English children’s book author and his time at Book Festival (see page 26-29) established in 2015. Repton, the prestigious 16th-century Derbyshire “There wasn’t much of an opportunity in Derby to school, but is what triggered her lifetime love of work in books. But, with the growth of the Festival, books, arts and culture. it feels Derby is getting in touch with its own rich heritage and its local authors, and it’s great to see While decades separate their attendance at that side of the city coming out. Repton – Dahl was a student in the 1930s, while Imogen graduated in 2013 – Clarke says: “I’ve “I definitely think there is so much creative always loved Roald Dahl books, with my favourite talent in Derby, not just in literature, but across being ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. In our the arts,” says Clarke, citing prolific actors and library we had a little thing about him, and our Derbyshire natives John Hurt and Robert Lindsay. school tuck shop was called ‘The Grubber’. So, for me who totally loves books and always As for her new home of London, Clarke says what wanted to be surrounded by them, and to now both cities share is a support of independent work in them, that [Dahl connection] was a really businesses. “It’s not the usual chains. It’s really nice thing to have.” easy in both cities to find indie shops and cafes that showcase local produce and talent. Sadler Clarke made the move to London in July 2018 to Gate and the Cathedral Quarter in Derby is really work in sales at Hachette Publishing. testament to this and it’s wonderful to see it thriving now after so much development.” And it is the cultural side of the capital that has captured Clarke. “You stumble upon pop-up food One thing the capital can’t replicate for Imogen festivals, art installations and performances. is the green of Derbyshire. She says: “The fresh There’s so much culture everywhere in London air, the rolling hills and beautiful countryside in that it can be almost overwhelming.” the county just aren’t there in London.”

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NAME: ASAD MOGHAL, 27 JOB: DIGITAL AND CONTENT MANAGER COMPANY: BYFIELD CONSULTANCY

For Asad, it’s all about opportunities. The relative ease of going between London and Derby to see family and friends has also helped. “Obviously, in London, there are opportunities, “Travelling between both is only 89 minutes by but I don’t think much attention is paid to the rail – that connection is a great thing”. breadth of industry and opportunities in Derby. We have engineering, manufacturing, and IT. But Connections within the individual cities is an the creative industries are equally important and area of difference between the two cities though. offer a great start to a person’s career.” “What Derby can learn from London is the way London embraces public transport. There’s a Moghal made the move from his native Derby real want for people to use public transport to London two years ago to join litigation and rather than use their own cars. Obviously though, legal PR firm Byfield Consultancy, based in London has more to spend on public transport.” Chancery Lane. As for his life now in the capital, Moghal says he Now living in Holland Park, Moghal says he was will stay for the foreseeable future. “While Derby excited at the “new career opportunities in front does have fantastic career opportunities, London of me”. is known on a much wider global scale. And for what I do, those clients are more likely to be Comparing his home city with London, Moghal based around London.” says: “There are in fact similarities in the make- up of the individuals of the cites. There’s a And for those considering a move to the capital, breadth of different cultures, which have really Moghal says: “The biggest tip is while it can feel embraced the cities and brought their own difficult to move from a smaller city like Derby values, and there’s the mixture of shops and to London, the capital is full of people who have range of food, which is always nice as it’s great to done just the same thing. There are so many learn from both.” people like you so don’t be afraid to meet them.”

Both London and Derby have a breadth of different cultures, which have really embraced the cities

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NAME: SONIA SOHAL, 27 JOB: OWNER COMPANY: THE FIT STYLING

Going between Leeds and London for her final Added to lifestyle, Sonia wanted to set up her study year in fashion is when Derby native Sonia, own business, “but because of the cost I couldn’t “started to get my feet wet and got to know do that in London”. She now runs The Fit more of what London was about and the creative Styling, creating modern tailored clothing for industry within [the capital].” men and women.

Working in production and design in London, she “I moved back to Derby as I missed my family, was fortunate not to have faced the hefty rents paid but I also wanted to bring that London flair, that by others. “I’m a family person and I lived with organic natural style to Derby.” family in London. I didn’t really have to pay rent. Using her designs Sonia, says: “I wanted to offer “But, [the cost of] living and rent is the reason a solution to the people who work in Derby [to I came back to Derby [in 2015]. Also, I missed allow] them to look stylish on a daily basis, and the lifestyle in Derby, which I didn’t have much I felt I had the knowledge to do so from working of in London [because of commuting]. It took in London.” 45 minutes each way from where I was living in Chigwell in Essex to my work in east London.” What Sonia wished she had known before moving to the capital is to be more aware Now back home, Sonia says she gets to experience of the areas to live in and the commute. more things. “I get to go to more restaurants, as “That’s one of my regrets. I would have I have extra time. The lifestyle in general is a lot probably had a better lifestyle by living better. In London it’s very fast-paced.” closer to my work location.”

In Derby I get to go to more restaurants, as I have extra time. The lifestyle in general is a lot better. In London it’s very fast-paced

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NAME: CHARLENE SHARP, 28 JOBS: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO CEO, DERBY COUNTY, AND EVENTS MANAGER, MAINFRAME

Charlene’s move between London to Derby is “I prefer to go out in Derby when there is something of a boomerang story. something specific to attend, such as Yo Oldschool Brunch, Reminisce night or the Born in Derby, she moved to London for seven Bustler Market. Derby does have some good bars years to work at the BBC, came back home to to go to and venues to visit.” Derby, but still commuted between Birmingham and London for about another six years, still at So, any regrets about her move between the the BBC. two cities? “Seeing how the housing market has taken off in London and Derby, I wish Charlene eventually worked locally with the I had looked into getting on the housing occasional freelance job for the corporation, ladder earlier.” before leaving the BBC in July 2016. Her career path took her to being executive assistant to the To those considering the opportunity of moving CEO of Derby County Football Club, and events to London for the long term, Charlene says: manager at the city’s Mainframe project (which “Ensure your finances add up. I still have a lot of brings creative industries together and supports friends who live in London, don’t think they will their growth), at Derby QUAD cultural venue. ever buy there and are beginning to think about their future years to come.” Going between both has given her a good perspective of each city. One, unsurprisingly, is She adds: “That’s where a city like Derby is an the ease and cost of going out in Derby compared attractive offer, due to its affordable property to London. prices and lifestyle.”

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CLUB HOUSE Find out how you can get involved in the Derby Ambassadors Club

he London Chapter of the Derby Derby on the radar of London-based investors Ambassadors Club comprises and promoting its activities in London. individuals who are based in London but have an ongoing affiliation with “We need to focus on what makes Derby stand Derby, thanks to industry, education, out, on its strengths and the key sectors in which familyT or Derby County! The aim of it is to create it excels – engineering, IT, transport, real estate a network to help raise the profile of Derby and etc. We need to tell the stories of those who have Derbyshire, attracting investment into the area. gone to Derby and how they have found it, and coordinate with others who are also promoting As well as the opportunity of meeting business Derby, from local chambers of commerce to leaders at exclusive events in London and commercial organisations. Derby – such as socials in the House of Lords or private wine tastings at Berry Bros. & Rudd “We need to dispel misperceptions of Derby, – ambassadors receive annual magazine Orrery, like the time it takes to get there, or the weather, and quarterly e-newsletters covering key stories but we need to promote personal stories and from the area. relationships – that’s what makes a place real, and it is where I believe the London Chapter of Chair, David Boutcher, is a corporate partner at Derby Ambassadors can make a difference.” law firm Reed Smith. Born and raised in Derby, he’s lived and worked in London for 38 years. Do you want to help grow our group of Derby devotees? To become an ambassador, refer a friend, He says: “To me, it’s about promoting Derby and or just want to know more, contact Marketing Derby the region and attracting investment, by getting on 01332 201 860 or [email protected].

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