Archive for September, 2011

SIXTY YEARS AND STILL GROWING STRONG

A family business in Doncaster is blooming as it celebrates its diamond anniversary – sixty years of green fingered success. Walker’s Nurseries, garden centre and garden restaurant, was founded by Lawrence and Vera Walker in 1951 and in 2011 is an award winning success. The business has come a long way from the plot of [...]

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Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey

The book club has finished reading Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey   Wentworth today is a crumbling and forgotten palace in Yorkshire. Yet a hundred years ago it was the ancestral pile of the Fitzwilliams – an aristocratic clan whose home and life was fuelled by coal mining. Black Diamonds tells of the Fitzwilliams’ spectacular [...]

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