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FEBRUARY Royal Shrove Tide Football- held on Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday each year. Ancient game of football played between 'uppers' and 'downers' depending on which side of the river you live. A hand made exquisitely painted leather ball is thrown up by a local or famous figure at 2.00pm each day from Ashbourne Shaw Croft car park.The game goes on until around 10.00pm in the evening. Goal posts are around 2 miles apart, anyone can play with hundreds in each team- no real rules, prepare to get wet. Great fun not to be missed. _______________________________________ Arthur Keily - Derby's Marathon Legend at Derby Museum & Art Gallery Derby Museum & Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS 1st Jan 2009 - 1st Jan 2011 Contact: Information Tel: 01332 641901 Web: www.derby.gov.uk/museums Ongoing exhibition: Follow in the footsteps of one of the City's sporting heroes - the local man who smashed the world record for longdistance running in the 1950s Butterflies and Moths at Derby Museum & Art Gallery Derby Museum & Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS 1st Jan 2009 - 1st Jan 2011 Contact: Information Tel: 01332 641901 Web: www.derby.gov.uk/museums Ongoing exhibition: With the aid of a staggering array of specimens from Britain and from all over the world. Story Of Stone at National Stone Centre National Stone Centre, Porter Lane, Wirksworth, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 4LS 1st Jan 2010 - 31st Dec 2010 10:00 - 17:00 Contact: Mr J Climpson Tel: 01629 824833 Email: nsc@nationalstonecentre.org.uk Web: www.nationalstonecentre.org.uk Adult £1.80: Child under 16 £0.90: Retired and students £1.20: Family 2+2 £3.60 See the story of stone-spanning 4-5 billion years-as part of a visit to our dramatic 50 acre site. Take a site trail to see quarries, lime kilns, lead mine shafts and ancient tropical reefs and the Millenium Wall. Collectors Market at Trestle Market Trestle Market, Silk Street Car Park, Leek, Staffordshire, ST13 6HQ 1st Jan 2010 - 31st Dec 2010 08:00 - 16:00 Contact: Kevin Harper Tel: 01538 385862 Email: kevinharper@aol.com Friendly Indoor Collectors/Craft market every Friday. Established over six years with stalls of books, jewelry, ceramics, retro clothes, cards & portrait painting. Sleepless by Vered Lahav at Derby Museum & Art Gallery Derby Museum & Art Gallery, The Strand, Derby, DE1 1BS 13th Jan 2010 - 14th Mar 2010 Contact: Information Tel: 01332 641901 Web: www.derby.gov.uk/museums Sleepless offers us an insight into Vered Lahav’s unique perspective on the world. As she wanders the streets she observes people, watching, absorbing and filtering the sights and sounds. Embroidering on History by Flore Gardner at Pickford's House Museum Pickford's House Museum, 41 Friar Gate, Derby, DE1 1DA 30th Jan 2010 - 25th Apr 2010 Contact: Information Tel: 01332 255363 Web: www.derby.gov.uk/museums Flore Gardner creates new narratives from old, found photographs and melancholic snapshots. . All information

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