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Eyam Weekend '07 Story by Mike Sadula - Pictures by Mike and Elaine Eccles
Sitting around at the debriefing
Those are nice hats.... Nine of us arrived at the hostel on Friday evening and enjoyed a Jacob’s Join with an Italian flavor – Pizzas, pasta, lasagna and garlic breads with accompanying salads and calorific desserts. After our meal we formed 3 teams of three with 2 overseers (to stop cheating!) and took part in some quizzes with Keith and Rosemary both showing skills that put their teams ahead.
The leader - Mike Sadula
Helen, Keith and Elaine On Saturday we walked from the hostel walking through fields to Eyam Church and through the village. We crossed the main road and walked through Darlington Quarry and then dropped down in to the valley of Coombs Dale which brought us onto the main road in to Calver where we visited two outdoor shops and had a lunch break. We then picked up the River Derwent pasing through Froggat, Grindleford and then up onto Eyam Moor. We then returned by a woodland path which came out above the hostel.
Eyam YHA On Sunday we took the cars down to the village where we looked around Eyam Museum which told the history of the Black Plague, or Bubonic Plague, which was brought up from London on infected bales of cloth which were delivered to a tailor. 260 members of the once thriving town of Eyam died. The illness was spread by flea and was not contagious in itself but the flees spread easily, in the small, crowded houses, from person to person. Leaving Eyam we drove to a car park in Tideswell Dale from where we set out on our walk which started along the dale to the river at Litton Mill, we crossed the river and walked along the Monsall trail which follows the path of a derelict railway.
Happy ramblers
What are you looking at said the Lama Red rock formed part of the railway cutting which was produced by volcanic lava when the valley was first created. The railway tunnel is now blocked off for safety reasons and we had to climb up the cliff above the old railway giving us views of the river far below.
Elaine doesn't look happy Cressbrook Mansion stands high on the other side of the river. We came down to the river bank at a weir and crossed over the water. Passing through Millers Dale we stopped at Jolly cum Water where we were able to eat our own lunch at tables outside a small café, we then walked around the outside of Cressbrook Mill which has been converted into luxury flats selling for around &350,000.
Geoff's in front again
It's all become too much for Angela
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