Our weekend The Mellor Design Centre, Near Hathersage, Derbyshire

 

Mr P and I had an eventful weekend since Father's Day was on the Sunday and we had a combined celebration for our wedding anniversary at our local daughter's home.  

On Saturday the weather was dull, but dry and warm so we ventured out for a drive into the Derbyshire countryside There are many places that we would like to return to, but decided on a trip to the David Mellor Design Centre kitchen shop and the Hathersage village area.  The last outing we had there was during the Christmas holidays 2019 when our daughter who lives in Berkshire came to stay.  Little did we know that in March 2020 we would be in lockdown dealing with a global pandemic.  The Design Museum and the café are still closed, but the kitchen shop is open so we had a browse around.  I was looking for a large oven dish in readiness for entertaining our ever growing family once further restrictions are lifted.  This time I didn't see what I wanted, but I was glad to have visited as it's such a pleasant site surrounded by trees and shrubs with a good parking area up a drive well away from the road.

(Interior photos taken last visit)

We had not booked a table for lunch at the nearby pub, but we did have a drink before driving back home over the high ridges that overlook Hathersage village.  

Foxgloves, ferns, yellow bedstraw, yellow rattle, clover and wild daisies are everywhere growing in the long grass.

The sky was overcast so the photos are not the best.

Sunday at our daughter's home.  Our granddaughter and boyfriend made the pizza dough and the suppli in advance ready for the celebration party.  Our daughter has a new pizza oven that was tried out for the first time.  We also enjoyed our daughter's home made fruit and nut cake with Prosecco wine.  We were able to sit outside without worrying about cold, wet weather and it was actually quite a warm afternoon even though the sun stayed behind the clouds.  Good memories were made during this happy get together with family and friends.

I hope you also had a good weekend.  Thank you for your visit.  

The David Mellor Design Centre, near Hathersage, Derbyshire

Today I'm looking back at the days when we went for a drive into Derbyshire and visited the David Mellor Centre which has a café, a kitchen shop, workshops and a permanent exhibition of quality cutlery and other products of national importance designed by David Mellor and currently his son, Corin. We spent quite a time looking around and buying some items for ourselves, family and friends in the country kitchen shop.  The small café was busy on this New Year's Eve day so we decided to go to a local inn instead. I'm sure we'll be back as it would be good to take visitors who are interested in general design, cooking and kitchen items and I would like to go on a workshop tour. 

the café and other buildings at the centre

The purpose-built Round House Workshop designed for David Mellor by Sir Michael Hopkins.  It's built in the local gritstone and is set in an area of natural beauty. Visitors can take a tour to see the highly skilled cutlery making process.

David Mellor was born in Sheffield and trained originally as a silversmith. Due to his international reputation for product design and manufacture he won many awards.  Corin Mellor has now succeeded his father as Creative Director continuing the tradition of innovative design work in this specialist field.

The Design Museum exhibiting David and Corin Mellors' work.

We found the above exhibits interesting such as the church commissions especially those for Sheffield Anglican Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Daughter D was interested in the car as 1966 was her birth year.

Exhibits of the public signs, seats, the national traffic light system, street lights, mail box, litter bins in the grounds of the Design Centre that were all designed by David Mellor are still in use today.

the country kitchen shop

Thank you for your visit!