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Jennypeg
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The Dumbles
replied on: 2/17/2008 7:51:31 PM

Historic Denby
By Ernest Roome
R/H 1956
I have mentioned the Dumbles as being Denby’s summer resort. It is many years since I first went into the Dumbles, but the other day I decided I would pay a visit. I was greatly disappointed, because compared with the Dumbles of the past it looked more or less derelict. Scores of trees must have been felled and where there was a long forest of them, they have been split apart and a big gap left. So now from henceforth the Dumbles which in the years when people did not take a holiday at the seaside, but visited it for picnicking and sun- bathing cannot now be designated a summer resort. I am forgetting to state why this change has taken place. It is simple because of out-cropping and this had slipped from my memory. It might be amusing to relate that a certain “tribe” known as the Heanor Taghillians often trekked to what must have been then truly a summer resort. Still there is no reason why anyone fond of walking should not take a walk down Dumbles Lane, where at the bottom one can get over the fields to Heanor and Smalley, or by turning sharply right at the first of the two pairs of cottages over some humpy ground which leads to a stile, the destination could be Flamstead.

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