News

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The group’s latest news is published on this page.

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Annul General Meeting 2025

We held our AGM immediately preceding our December 2025 social evening. During this meeting Doug Spencer regrettably, officially, tendered his resignation as chairman – a position he has held since we first started meeting. Members expressed their wish to record our grateful thanks to him for all the work he has done over the years. Philip Cousins has been elected chairman, Marion Spencer remains as treasurer, Janet Walmsley as secretary with Paul Freeman elected as vice-chairman. We also welcomed some new members to our committee. Many thanks for volunteering to assist us.

Published 2 January 2026.

Miscellany for 2024 and 2025

Unfortunately production of Brimington and Tapton Miscellany 17 has been delayed due to illness. We are now going to combine our chronicle of local events for 2024 and 2025 into the next edition of Miscellany, which we expect to publish September 2026.

Published 2 January 2026.

Membership fees reduced for 2025/2026

We’ve been able to reduce our membership fees from £12 to £10 for the September 2025 to August 2026 period. Admission prices for our meetings remain unaltered at £1 for members and £3 for non members. Subscriptions became due in September 2025.

Published 17 October 2025.

Reduced website postings

We are sorry that due to illness we haven’t been able to update this website as much as we would like. We hope to get back ‘into things’ in the coming months. There will also be a delay to the next Miscellany, which we normally publish in September of each year.

Published 25 August 2025

Chairman steps down

We are sorry to report that Doug Spencer has reluctantly stepped down as our chairman. Doug will, though, be continuing to take an active part in our group.

Published 30 March 2024.

Meeting room changed

On and from our November 2023 meeting we changed our room at Brimington Community Centre from the main hall to the smaller, warmer and acoustically better committee/meeting room.

We can’t, though, get into this room until 7.15pm at the earliest. So, to those joining us a little earlier, please wait in the corridor entrance area – where you will find seating.

We are trying out this room and various different layouts to see how best we can accommodate group meetings. Please let members of the committee know any thoughts you might have on how we might improve the setting-out of our new room.

Our old room – the main hall – has difficult acoustics. The change to the meeting/committee room means we’ll be warmer too, with no noise from the heaters. It also means that we don’t have to cart the amplifier system and projection screens from upstairs storage.

Out thanks to Brimington Parish Council (owners of the community centre) and, in particular, our regular caretaker Kevin, for assisting us with the change.

Published 15 December 2023.

Our meetings programme

Meetings are being held as normal in Brimington Community Centre.See our meetings page for further details on subject, times, venue location and admission.

Published 30 November 2023

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Some older news from and about our group is below here.

Tapton House future

Chesterfield Borough Council is seeking a long (999 years) lease in order to try and assure a sustainable long-term future for Tapton House, which it owns.

The local history group does not have any view on what the future of the house should be, but wishes public access to the parkland to be maintained and the house’s future to be assured, with possibly some selected public access to it.

Published 29 May 2022.

Our website is launched

We have launched our new website and hope you find it interesting. Our old website was with BT, who have discontinued their free provision from May 2021. We think this is regrettable and now means that we have to pay for this new website facility. In the coming months we will develop this site, with new content and more downloadable articles.

Published 31 January 2021