On 8 November 2017 at 7.30pm at Chapelgate Hall, Grove Street Methodist Church, Retford DN22 6LB Michael Parkin will tell the story of the 8 June 1817 when between 50 and 300 stockingers, ironworkers and labourers from the villages of Ripley, Pentrich, Alfreton, and South Wingfield gathered and set out to march the fourteen miles to Nottingham, collecting more men and arms on the way.

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