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Midland Railway Centre - Take a trip on a steam train. Details and events.
Chatsworth House - The official website for the home of the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire. Includes an introduction to Chatsworth, highlights of the House, its art collection, garden and information for planning and booking a visit.
The Denby Pottery Company Ltd - Product catalogue and guide to factory shops from pottery and tableware manufacturer.
Chestnut Centre Wildlife Park - Involved in the rehabilitation of wildlife including otters, owls, deer, wild cats and foxes. Information on location, facilities and entry fees.[Based in the Chapel-en-le-Frith area]
Heights of Abraham Country Park & Caverns - Country park and caverns set in 60 acres of woodland and reached by cable car over deep limestone gorge. Details of prices, opening times, history and downloadable resource pack.
The Wind in the Willows Attraction - Situated between Matlock, Bakewell and Chatsworth. Features every scene from the story. Includes information on group visits.
Beehive Farm Woodland Lakes - Woodland farm offering fishing lakes, caravan and camping site, animal farm, tearooms and nature conservation in the heart of the National Forest. Location and site maps, directions and opening hours.
Crich Tramway Village - Home to the National Tramway Museum. Includes events, admission, educational programs, membership details, library and location directions.
The American Adventure - Includes an education section, park guide, online booking with prices, maps and calendar.
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I didn't know what I was doing there. That's w Attractions I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. -- Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward Ninety percent of the game is half mental. -- Yogi Berra When the mouse laughs at the cat, there is a hole nearby. -- Nigerian Proverb Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. -- James Stephens Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. - Benjamin Franklin Attractions We haven't the money, so we've got to think. -- Lord Rutherford Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. -- Jean Kerr Attractions "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) "A man who flies from his fear may find he has only taken a shortcut to meet it." (John Ronald Reuel Tolkien) Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B.F. Skinner The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. -- B. F. Skinner Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Attractions I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted. -- Lawrence Summers, chief economist of the World Bank, explaining why we should export toxic wastes to Third Wo Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. -- Friedrich Nietzsche Attractions When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap. -- Cynthia H It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. -- Peter De Vries It is never too late to be what you might have been. -- George Eliot Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. -- Mark Twain I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer Attractions Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous He who kisses the joy is it flies lives in eternity's sunrise -- William Blake Attractions "It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality." (Francois Sagan) If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder All courage is a form of constancy. It is always himself that a coward abandons first. After this all other betrayals come. -- Cormac McCarthy "I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead." (Oscar Wilde) Attractions "If a man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Experience is the name every one gives his mistakes. -- Elbert Hubbard Attractions Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair. -- George Burns The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual fantasies which involve doing uncomfortable things in those tiny toil "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. -- M. C. Reed Attractions If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pens&eactue;es, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Attractions Prejudice is the child of ignorance. -- William Hazlitt If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings. -- Lisa Moriyama Our elections are free - it's in the results where eventually we pay. -- Bill Stern "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." (Napoleon Bonaparte) Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Attractions I hate it in friends when they come too late to help. -- Euripides It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Attractions "It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else." (John W If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. -- Kingsley Amis Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Intelligence has nothing to do with politics. -- Londo Molari Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. Attractions Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the commun Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed. -- Robert G. Ingersoll, (seen attributed to "R.S. Ingersoll" - a typo?) Attractions "Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra) We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. -- George Bernard Shaw Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw "By seeing the seed of failure in every success, we remain humble. By seeing the seed of success in every failure we remain hopeful." (Mel Ziegler, founder of Banana Republic) When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen. -- Ernest Hemingway Attractions In a great romance, each person plays a part the other really likes. -- Elizabeth Ashley All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his. -- Oscar Wilde "There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered." (Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom) Attractions
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