Most dapper in show?

Jessica Zoob is a Sussex based contemporary artist whose social media profile engagingly reads “I swim in wild water. I climb craggy mountains. I gaze at clouds. Then I paint.” Her powerful impressionistic paintings have been described as Monet-like, poetic and elemental.

We recently revisited the David Mellor Visitor Centre and Cutlery Factory at Hathersage, a fantastic place on the edge of the Peak District, 15 miles west of Sheffied.

I say revisit, well it was for me anyway, as I cycled there in the early 1990s to check out David Mellor’s iconic factory – the then newly finished Round Building designed by Michael Hopkins. Built on an old gasometer base using local gritstone, the fabulous roof and central lantern is constructed like a trussed ‘spoked wheel’