Or rather, where we've been.
This morning, Trev and I took a little road trip - just an itty-bitty one, out into the next county (not country), to where we were both born and bred.
Although we've lived in Nottinghamshire longer (about twice as long) than we lived in Derbyshire, Derbyshire played such a major part in our formative years that we keep going back.
On a day like today, cold, but bright and beautiful, we're glad we have that option.
There will be a video to accompany this post and until I can figure it out and become confident with it all, it will have to be two posts (I think). I'll give a commentary in written form, as well as pictures.
We set out from home and a woman almost wiped us out before we were off the street! She cut right across the junction just as we approached it.
I totally understand how people get annoyed at some drivers.
Then we went through Trev's home town and through to Alfreton, a little market town on the edge of the Derbyshire countryside.
We stopped for a while and took pictures of the 'House of Confinement' - a little one-room 'jail house' of sorts that was used to lock up ne'er do wells back in the 19th century.
The last time it was used was for a soldier that had overstayed his leave and had to be locked up. The jail's cells were full, so he spent a night in the House of Confinement. What a claim to fame!
The next place of interest in Alfreton is the Abraham Lincoln Library - yep, that Abraham Lincoln!
On the way back to the car, I spotted something that speaks volumes of our history - or rather, I didn't spot it because it had been removed a long time ago.
In war-time, we had a serious shortage of metal and so the railings from public areas were cut off and sent away for use in the 'Scrap Metal Drives' for the war effort!
Then on to the next part of the journey.
A short while ago, I wrote a story about 'Danny' the pony that was hit by a drunk-driver back when I was a kid. The story can still be read Here I've made a short video of the area - the drive we'd have taken on the way to the stables that morning and the estimated place in the fence where I saw the police cars and poor Danny.
The snap pic is of the stables entrance (which I didn't mention) on the right side (white fence).
I think I'll leave it there for now and continue this journey through my past for another day.
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