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For #saturdaySignage - a list of wildlife sightings along #Cromford canal, October 2019...

#Derbyshire #signs

It's #Bienstag - so have some solitary bees spotted up at Black Rocks, #Cromford at the weekend!

Andrena cineraria - Grey mining bee? Lots of little burrows in the sandy path
Nomada sp. - Nomad bee, intent on laying eggs in the burrows of the former!

#Derbyshire #insects #bees #macrophotography

30YrdScreamer Apr 7

One of my favourite places.

#Cromford #PeakDistrict #Derbyshire

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Peter Gray (per/per) 🚲🏞🎷🏠🌿 (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Friends, If you're planning to visit Cromford in Derbyshire and the Derwent Valley World Heritage Site, I'm pleased to announce that my new book "A Walk Around Cromford Village," has just been published. Available at Scarthin Bookshop and at the Arkwright Mills shop in Cromford and online from https://www.bannisterpublications.com/product-page/a-walk-around-cromford-village

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Photochromprints Dec 21

Cromford, the Black Rocks, Derbyshire, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Derbyshire

#Cromford #theBlackRocks #Derbyshire #England #10462-ORMOND #TheBlackRocks #photography #historicalPhotos #photochrom

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002696674/

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed Dec 11, 2025

For #doorsday - an unusually complete and well-preserved Renaissance Bookshop.

(Scarthin Books in #Cromford, #Derbyshire - shortly before opening on a Sunday. Photo from September 2012, although the place really hasn't changed - except for the addition of some crowd-sourced steel support posts when it turned out the joke about load-bearing books was a bit too truthful...)

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed Aug 23, 2025

For #saturdaySolitude - some abstract #industrialArchaeology above #Cromford, #Derbyshire. Including remnants of an old tramway up past Black Rocks, and a pile of stacked, worked masonry in the overgrown Barreledge Quarry... 1/n

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed Aug 19, 2025

Something enjoyable - taking a photo of a small, odd-looking bug with camera at arm's length, trying not to fall into a canal, getting home and seeing the results and thinking - what the heck's *that*?

Pretty sure it's a Mystacides azurea var. albicornis - a caddisfly. Look at those maxillary palps!

https://www.naturespot.org/species/mystacides-azurea

#Derbyshire #Cromford #insects #caddisflies #macrophotography

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed Aug 16, 2025

For #saturdaySolitude - Lea Wood, above #Cromford canal, earlier today.

#Derbyshire #woodlands

30YrdScreamer Jun 27, 2025

Cromford Canal in the sunshine

#Cromford #canal #PeakDistrict #sunshine

KOKU BUNJI Apr 4, 2025

#Fensterfreitag

#Fensterblick im pompösen Herrenhaus des Unternehmers Johann Gottfried #Brügelmann. Seines Zeichens Eigentümer der #Textilfabrik #Cromford, der allerersten Fabrik auf dem europäischen Kontinent.
Zu besichtigen in #Ratingen.
Mit der #Ruhrtopcard Eintritt frei.

Allen ein schönes Wochenende!

#GooglePixel6a