News and events for summer 2019 Derbyshire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | Northamptonshire | Nottinghamshire | Rutland ©National Trust Images/John Millar Images/John ©National Trust Summer’s here at last Images/Chris Lacey Summer is the season of warmth, longer days and an abundance of wildlife / PJHowsam – you just want to be outside. There are many summer adventures to be had at a National Trust place near you. hy not set your children also in Derbyshire the Garden of Stroll through the kitchen garden at free with our ‘50 things Imagination returns in the summer The Workhouse in Nottinghamshire to do before oure 11 holidays and a visit to the new Calke and explore the new experience that Wactivities? The landscape Explore in the woodland is a must. awaits you in the recently renovated at Kinder, Edale and the Dark Peak in If you like things a little more irbeck nrmar. ile at unb Meal times in the summer are ature flourises in te summer Derbyshire is perfect for climbing a serene, head to the gardens at our Estate, Hall and Gardens in al fresco and having a picnic is the there’s so much to see. At Tattershall huge hill or stargazing in the night sky, places to see flowers in full bloom and Lincolnshire see the herbaceous quintessential British way to eat Castle grab a deckchair and watch the while at Mr Straw’s House in borders at their best. At Stoneywell in borders in their ‘hot’ colour glory with outside. At Clumber Park in wildfowl and dragonflies paddling and Nottinghamshire you can follow the Leicestershire avoid the crowds with a a fusion of bright pinks, strong reds Nottinghamshire the Pleasure buzzing in and around the moat and selfguided nature activities. ick off pre-booked visit and see bracken in and sunshine yellows. Grounds are the perfect spot for a at Lyveden in Northamptonshire the lots of challenges at Belton House in the woodland and meadow grass in picnic and you can see the young wildflower meadows are alive wit Lincolnshire with their Friday ‘50 the garden, you may even spot a cygnets on the lake. While at Ilam in butterflies and bees. things’ Challenges (check website for common lizard basking in the sun. Follow us... taffordsire picnic as ou take in The highlights for this season are details). Help a plant grow, go on a or your local the views of Dovedale and the hazy days, borders in bloom and scavenger hunt and keep a nature diary. National Trust place surrounding countryside and at wondrous wildlife, sure signs that For more summer fun why not on social media. Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire summer is here. You help us protect take part in the Summer of Sport in Share your days out enjoy your picnic in the shade of these signs of summer. the North Orchard at Hardwick in with us and get the the North Orchard and ponder Derbyshire (20 July – 1 September) latest updates on life’s big questions as Events for summer 2019 Derbyshire | Leicestershire | Lincolnshire | and see what sporting challenges you summer events Newton did. Northamptonshire | Nottinghamshire | Rutland can complete? And at Calke Abbey and activities #NTMidlands ©National Trust Images/John Millar /Tom Webster-Deakin /Tom Millar Images/John Trust ©National For details of all there is to see and do, visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk/midlands or take a look at the ‘What’s on’ section Derbyshire Garden of Imagination Calke Abbey Sat 13 Jul – Sun 8 Sep, 10.30am-4pm Enjoy carefree summer days and let Capture Calke on Camera your imagination run wild in our natural outdoor play area, open every day of Sat 6 Jul, 10.30am-12.30pm Want to get some handy hints on the summer holiday. The wide open how to take better photos? Come and meadow is a safe space for children to explore, with lots of activities to keep Key to symbols join members of the photography team on a walk and have some fun their imaginations busy. Hardwick Hall looking for different views to Booking advisable. Country Food and Drink Fair Hardwick Estate: Stainsby Mill photograph. Beginners, We are Bess Call individual property intermediates and experts welcome! Sun 1 Sep, 10am-4pm Celebrate local food that’s grown, Sat 25 May – Sun 2 Jun, 11am-4pm From household names to local Maypoles at the Mill Booking essential. Kids with Cameras raised, baked or caught within a Sat 25 May – Sun 2 Jun 30-mile radius of Calke. Enjoy the Derbyshire women, the portraits of 20 Call individual property Sat 6 Jul, 1.30pm-2.30pm (excl. Mon & Tue), 10am-4.30pm best of the season at the country food modern women, taken by award- Come and join the winning photographer Rachel Adams, A colourful celebration of the Booking essential. Call Central and drink fair, with lots of local food photography team on a sit alongside the historic portraits in beginning of summer in the Mill with Box Office on 03442 491895 and drink to taste and buy. kid’s camera walk and the Long Gallery to reveal a new side ribbons and flowers. A trail for (5% booking fee applies) have some fun looking to Bess of Hardwick’s story. children of all ages. for different views to Bonhams Valuation Day Event repeated on other dates, Tue 17 Sep, 11am-2pm photograph. Pick up some handy tips Monthly Ranger Walks Summer Fun at Stainsby Mill check website for details and tricks along the way. Bring your silver, jewellery, pictures, Wed 24 Jul – Sun 1 Sep, 10am-4.30pm ceramics, furniture, clocks and works Fri 28 Jun, Fri 26 Jul & Fri 30 Aug, 10am-12noon Delight in being taken back to a School holiday event of art to be valued by experts from simpler time when the power of water Bonhams Auctioneers. Enjoy the Hardwick parkland through the changing seasons on a guided walk was so important in producing flour Valuations will cost £2 per item, for bread. Children of all ages can have £5 for three items with one of the Rangers. Find out more This is just a selection of our events. To find even more great things to do visit aboutus online the estate at andwww.nationaltrust.org.uk/midlands how we care for it. a go at grinding grain and play Well behaved dogs on leads are welcome.outdoor games from bygone times. © Peterloo © Peterloo From the Director for the Midlands People’s Landscapes in the Peak District with Jarvis Cocker © National his year, a new national We’re also working with the local programme has been communities and INSTAR artists, Trust launched entitled ‘People’s Trish Evans and Nick Humphreys. The TLandscapes’. Five locations LoudsPEAKer project brings together will be the focus of a national young people from rural Peak District elcome to the summer contemporary art project unearthing and urban Sheffield communities, to edition of Near You. stories of protest and passion, including build deeper connections between My enthusiasm for the Peak District in the Midlands. the Dark Peak’s landscape and Wnature began with a On 23 April 1932, around 400 emotive history and the city. cloud of butterflies across a people conducted a mass trespass These commissions have been meadow. We are trying to make in the Peak District, to protest the supported using public funding by sure that the land that we care for lack of public access to vast areas the National Lottery through Arts offers that experience to everyone of the landscape. It’s believed that Council England and with additional – whether that is through this forged the way for the creation support from Art Fund, as part of dedicating land for nature, or of the UK’s National Parks, of Trust New Art, the National Trust’s © National nature friendly farming as which the Peak District was the programme of contemporary arts. described at Clumber Park in first to be established in 1951. Trust/Simon Atherton Trust/Simon Nottinghamshire. This can make a To mark this fight for access, we’ve positive change really quickly and I worked with musician and presenter hope that you will see some of the Jarvis Cocker, who has created a walk impacts of that this year at our following part of the route taken by places. the trespassers on their way to Kinder We also have a number of new Scout, to be launched this summer. exhibitions exploring different Beginning at Edale train station, a stories about our places. At Calke range of unusual artistic experiences Abbey in Derbyshire our Humankind will form part the walk, including For all the latest information on exhibition explores the stories of the footage inspired by the dramatic these events and the Jarvis family who lived there in a new way landscape of the Peaks and songs of Cocker trail, please visit the – reminding us that social isolation protest by artists such as Ewan McColl. Peak District website is, sadly, nothing new. Meanwhile, in the Peak District, we are marking the www.nationaltrust.org.uk/peoples-landscapes-peak-district-2019 ‘mass trespass’ that led to the opening up of this landscape (and indeed the National Parks movement). If you manage to visit us, I hope HumanKind: Exploring isolation and loneliness, that you will also see some of the new investments that we have made in visitor facilities to ensure that we kindness and compassion at Calke Abbey are meeting the needs of everyone. © Rod For over thirty years, Calke Abbey in stableyards, providing a space for By joining the wider conversation Kirkpatrick Derbyshire’s unique story has painted discussion and reflection.