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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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/

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

#Derbyshire #woodlands

Cromford Canal in the sunshine

#Cromford #canal #PeakDistrict #sunshine

#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!

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Mmm, out walking around #Cromford, just up above #Middleton at the moment. It is sunny but not too hot, there's a slight breeze, and I can hear church bells in the distance. This is being at peace.
#Derbyshire
For #saturdaySolitude (which is absolutely a thing now) - a view of the canal in #Cromford, #Derbyshire with the faintest hints of spring. February 2025. (Yes! I also post new photos on here, as well as stuff up to 20+ years old!)

#reflections