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Treak Cliff Cavern - The only place in the world where Blue John Stone naturally occurs. Ancient underground caves open all year round. Online tour, information on shop and mail order service.
Speedwell Cavern - Offers a unique boat journey through the workings of a 200 year old underground lead mine which opens into a network of natural caverns and underground rivers. Details of opening times and prices.
Peak Cavern - The biggest natural cavern in Derbyshire, with the largest entrance to any cave in the British Isles. Site contains information on location and admission prices.
ASD Jewellers - Small family business offering a selection of blue john jewellery. Has secure online shopping.
Blue-John Cavern and Craft Shop - History of Blue John and details of the cavern. Information on the craft shop and selection of jewellery available.
Castleton Outdoor Shop - Offer a range of outdoor wear and equipment.
Laburnum Cottage - Self-Catering, eighteenth century stone-built cottage includes a picture gallery, tariff and availability calendar.
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Truman) Castleton "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. -- Samuel Butler I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw Castleton "I know that God won't give me more trouble than I can handle ... but sometimes I wish he wouldn't trust me so much." (Mother Teresa) Silence is argument carried out by other means. -- Ernesto "Che" Guevara "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." (Blaise Pascal) Castleton Biography lends to death a new terror. -- Oscar Wilde That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach. -- Aldous Huxley A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. -- Charles Brower "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Sir, I would rather be right than be President. -- Henry Clay, Speech, 1850, referring to the Compromise Measure Castleton When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Does anal retentive have a hyphen? -- Seen on a t-shirt "O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!" (William Shakespeare) Castleton It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are. -- Alanis Morissette, singer, 1995 The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. -- Sacha Guitry Castleton Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. -- Virginia Woolf, Bernard, in The Waves, 1931; repr. 1943, p. 189 He who has lost honor can lose nothing more. -- Publilius Syrus The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. - Emile Zola Castleton >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx blah "Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together." (Vincent van Gogh) All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) Beware of men on airplanes. 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One discovers by living in scorn of consequence. -- Essie Summers Love is an attempt to change a piece of the dream-world into reality. -- Theodor Reik Castleton Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all. -- G. K. Chesterton Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. -- Pablo Picasso "Nothing is permanent but change." (Heraclitus) Castleton "I learned more from the one restaurant that didn't work than from all the ones that were successes." (Wolfgang Puck, restauranteur) "Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) "I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence." (Edger Allen Poe) Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult. -- Anonymous Castleton Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Benjamin Franklin The soul is healed by being with children. -- Fyodor Dostoyevski Castleton Marriage is not just a having a wife, but also worries inherited forever. What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours. -- Woody Allen The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries. -- Iris Murdoch Vote for the man who promises least. He'll be the least disappointing. -- Bernard Baruch What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry Castleton I like nonsense -- it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are going. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes Castleton If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. -- Schopenhauer "One of the good things about low self-esteem is never having rain hit you in the face." (John A. Simone Jr.) Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind. -- Sebastian Roch Nicolas Chamfort "The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason." (John Cage) "A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car." (Kenneth Tynan) Castleton I have a daughter who goes to SMU. She could've gone to UCLA here in California, but it's one more letter she'd have to remember. -- Shecky Greene "Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." (George Bernard Shaw) Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. -- Vernon Law Castleton Happy are those who dream dreams and are willing to pay the price to make them come true. -- Anon. Tear open packet, unfold and use. -- Directions on moist towelette package Hell is a half-filled auditorium. -- Robert Frost "Self-confidence is the first requisite for achieving great things." (Samuel Johnson) "Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic." 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