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Scarthin Books’ 40th Anniversary!

40th Anniversary of Scarthin Books – a week of celebrations from Monday 22nd – Saturday 27th September

Take the Scarthin Books Quiz for your chance to win £25 worth of Scarthin Vouchers >HERE<

Scarthin Books would like to offer a huge thank you to the customers and staff (past and present) that have helped turn this humble bookshop – from its birth in 1974 – into the much-loved institution that it is today.

By way of thanks, we’re having a week of celebrations with not-to-be-scoffed-at prizes, culminating in an after-hours party at the shop, to which you are ALL cordially invited (just turn up from 6pm on Saturday 27th September, 70s attire optional but welcomed). There’ll be food and drink and a chance to chat to staff. The prize draw for the £200 Scarthin Voucher (and 2nd & 3rd place draws) will also take place during the party, with the lucky winner having the opportunity to NAME our NEW MUSIC ROOM (part of our forthcoming improvement programme, together with make-overs for the Art Room, Spirituality Room and Foreign Languages Annex). Our vegetarian/vegan Café has also undergone a transformation recently, so come and take a look!

Prize Draw Information:

Any purchase made between Monday 22nd September and Saturday 27th September entitles you to entry into a free draw (an additional ticket will be given for each £20 spent).  1st prize is £200 worth of Scarthin Vouchers PLUS the chance to name the soon-to-be-opened Music Room.  2nd prize is £75 worth of Scarthin Vouchers and 3rd prize is £50 worth of Scarthin Vouchers.

Click on the poster below for details of all the events:

Apple Day 2014

Help celebrate the fruitfulness of the Earth

Cromford Apple Day 2014 will be held on Saturday October 18th between 12pm and 5pm on Scarthin Promenade.

Bring your surplus apples (or pears, grapes or other fruit, which need a muslin bag or pillow-case) to be minced and pressed, together with a board and knives and time to quarter the fruit ready for efficient hand-powered processing. 

There will also be trees and plants for sale, hot and cold refreshments, Morris Men, musical entertainment (including Wobble and Wheeze, a fiddle duo who played at this year’s Glastonbury festival) and children activities (craft, apple dunking of course and a few other apple related games).

For the last 3 years, we’ve also run a few competitions (best apple pudding and longest apple peel… with 450cm to beat! – record set by Graham Roberton last year). This year, we’re running even more competitions:

*The 3 Ps… best Pudding, best Pie, best Preserve (3 categories, prizes for winners and runners-up – must contain some apple… even if just a slice)

*The Heaviest Apple (grown locally… not at Morrison’s!)

*The Longest Apple Peel: come with your peeler or pen knife, with your apple or pick one of ours and try to beat Graham’s record!

Apple pressing generates quite a bit of pulp. If you have any pigs you would like feeding with the pulp, please let us know.


The pressing and entertainment are free but donations to Celebrating Cromford are welcome. For further information see www.celebratingcromford.org or contact Dave Mitchell: davescarthin@gmail.com or via 01629 823272 (Scarthin Books).

Cromford Village Late Night Opening

A Cracking Christmas in Cromford (?)

Thursday 20th December 5.30 – 8.00 p.m.

This year, Cromford businesses have decided to pull together and coordinate their pre-Christmas opening arrangements. Our village is a hub of enterprise, the meeting-place of eight through-roads, well-served by buses and with its own railway station. This has helped Cromford, centred around our attractive Market Place and Millpond, keep a range of shops, services and other businesses surprising for such a small community.

In previous years, shops such as Scarthin Books have made their own arrangements for special pre-Christmas opening. This year, to help kick-start a newly-founded traders’ association, over a dozen businesses are opening until at least 8 p.m. on the evening of Thursday 20th December. There will be special Cracking Christmas discounts, offers and gifts at most shops and a free snowman trail for children, who can collect clues from the different locations to solve a puzzle and win a prize while adults completing the trail will be offered a glass of mulled wine.

Participating businesses include:

Arkwright Stores

B Payne & Son Ltd – Christmas gifts, toiletries and personalised photo gifts

Boat Inn

Inspired Earth – Fairly traded handicrafts and clothing from India and Nepal

Lisa J Smith – Stained glass and jewellery

Malcolm D Smith – Seating, stools and chairs in ash

Market Place Restaurant

Netty the Making Elf in the Design and Make Bus

Q-Eye – Beads, Jewellery, Lighting

Scarthin Books – New, used, antiquarian books and a new range of gifts

Susanna Davis – Quality Linen and Silk

Apple Day Celebrations 2012

The annual Cromford Apple Day will be held outside Scarthin Books on The Promenade on Saturday October 20th with the unusual music and merrymaking accompanying strenuous pressing of your surplus crop. The Boat Inn is putting on a beer/cider festival over the weekend too.

APPLES are in somewhat SHORT SUPPLY this year, if you know of any laden trees or lawns or pavements LET DAVE MITCHELL KNOW and he will be round at the speed of van to scoop them up. davescarthin@gmail.com or 01629-823456.
There will also be displays of artwork by local artists and a whole host of stalls selling everything from clothing to home-made cakes.
Apple Pie Competition
If you fancy cooking up your windfall in advance you may want to enter our apple pie competition with Scarthin Books vouchers of 20 10 and 5 pounds to be won.  Just bring your edible entry along to the Prom by 2pm for a chance of winning!