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Derbyshire
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Closed on XMAS Day & Boxing Day
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10-5pm

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Parking

Don't be put off by the tucked-away location of the bookshop - there are places to park if you know where to find them:

- along the Prom (free)
- Market Place (free)
- Water Lane (free)
- Cromford Mill
- Cromford Canal

No Dogs Policy (new)

Following several unfortunate incidents and an ever-growing canine population in our corridors, we have decided, with some regret, that it is time to revert to the practice of only a few years ago of asking our customers not to bring dogs into the bookshop.

This policy change has been hard for our staff to
agree, but we think it is the right course of action.

Assistance Dogs are, of course, exempt.

RSS Dave Mitchell’s Tessellations

  • Putting Australia in the Shade; A Lattice Labyrinth employed to Spectacular Effect 13/10/2020
  • A Birthday Card for the 1 in 1500 of us born on 29th. February 03/01/2020
  • March Fools’ Day (Brexit Day) 29th. March 2019 18/01/2019
Florence Nightingale – a fragment

Florence Nightingale’s family seat, Lea Hurst, just two miles down the Derwent valley then up a lot, is now a superior residential home. Below in the valley of the Lea Brook is the family lead smelting site, which a Canadian librarian once suggested to me was responsible for F.N.’s (that is how she often signed herself, in pencil) fifty years as an invalid. Certainly it was a poisonous place, not a blade of grass grows on the site to this day.

After she became a popular heroine, at least one local expression of admiration was published, ‘a loyal address’ with photographs of her and of the house.

She was involved in the extension of the 19th century Derby Infirmary, and many Derbyshire babies, including my own, started life in a Nightingale Ward or Wing. Memorabilia turn up occasionally.

The ancient Lea Wood, part of the Nightingale Estate, is to be sold to the Woodlands Trust; through Lea Wood, 100 years ago, walked the future writer Alison Uttley on her way to school – another tall, elegant and formidable Derbyshire woman!

Florence Nightingale: an odd selection

  • Florence Nightingale. (Smith, Cecil Woodham-) 22cm.616. 5ill. 4r.e. Paperback. Constable: Apr 96. 12.95 (at 03/97) 0 09 475810 7 (Whitaker UK)
  • Florence Nightingale. Penguin 60s S. (Strachey, Lytton) 14cm.96. Paperback. Penguin: Mar 96. 0.60 (at 05/97) 0 14 600211 3 (Whitaker UK)
  • As Miss Nightingale Said. (Nightingale, Florence & Baly, Monica E. (Ed.)) 23cm.200. Ill. 2r.e. Paperback. Bailliere: Apr 97. 19.95 (at 05/97) 0 7020 2292 6 (Whitaker UK)
  • Florence Nightingale: Nurse to Soldiers. Preteen Biography S. (Dengler, Sandy) 22cm. Paperback. Moody P: Jul 95. 3.75 0 8024 2627 1 (Whitaker UK)
  • Suggestions for Thought: Selections and Commentaries. Studies in Health, Illness & Caregiving. (Nightingale, Florence & Calabria, Michael D. (Ed.) etc.) 23cm.218. Paperback. Univ. Pennsylvania P: Mar 94. 15.95 (at 06/94) 0 8122 1501 X (Whitaker UK)
  • Cassandra. (Nightingale, Florence & Poovey, Mary (Ed.)) 22cm.250. n.e. Paperback. New York UP: Apr 93. 17.25 (at 05/97) 0 8147 5775 8 (Whitaker UK)
  • Florence Nightingale. (Keen, Norman) D8.38. 14ill. Paperback. JH Hall: Jun 83. 2.95 (at 12/96) 0 946404 05 4 (Whitaker UK)
  • As Miss Nightingale Said. (Nightingale, Florence & Baly, Monica E. (Ed.)) 30cm.xvi,136. Ill. Paperback. Scutari P: Dec 91. 8.99 (at 02/96) 1 871364 56 6 (o.p.) (Whitaker UK)
  • Notes on Nursing: What it is and What it is Not. (Nightingale, Florence & Skretkowicz, Victor (Ed.)) 23cm.xlii,212. n.e. Paperback. Scutari P: Jul 92. 16.95 (at 04/97) 1 871364 63 9 (Whitaker UK)
  • God Bless You, My Dear Miss Nightingale: Letters to Florence Nightingale, 1867-70. Stockholm Studs. in English. (Rappe, Emmy Carolina & Johansson, Bertil (Ed.)) 1M8.60. Ill. Paperback. Almqvist: May 77. 4.50 91 22 00097 6 (Whitaker UK)

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