{"id":49934,"date":"2025-07-04T09:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketingderby.co.uk\/?p=49934"},"modified":"2025-07-04T09:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T08:20:32","slug":"forget-made-in-chelsea-give-me-made-in-derby-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketingderby.co.uk\/news\/forget-made-in-chelsea-give-me-made-in-derby-every-time\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Forget Made in Chelsea \u2013 give me Made in Derby every time!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here, in his latest monthly column reflecting on the news over the past month, our Press and PR Executive Robin Johnson looks at the headlines.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last month, I took a few days off to travel to London to reunite with some friends from my university days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was over 30 years ago that we were first thrown together at what was then known as Roehampton Institute (now the University of Roehampton).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For all three years of my studies, I lived out of halls, in a somewhat depressing bedsit in Putney, living off my signature dish of scrambled eggs on toast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like a lot of places, Putney has changed a lot since those days – the money from Chelsea and Fulham having spilled over to the other side of the Thames – and the place now has a very upmarket feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought as much as I sat in the beer garden of one of the pubs we used to drink in, carefully sipping my \u00a38.50 pint!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, the conversation turned to careers, and one of my old uni chums asked me why, instead of staying in London all those years ago, I decided to return to Derby to eventually become a business journalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBecause it\u2019s one of the best cities in the country,\u201d came my reply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the sniggering had died down, I pointed to the sky, where, seemingly every five minutes, a huge passenger jet could be seen making its descent into Heathrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSee that? Rolls-Royce engines – made in Derby. The Elizabeth Line trains you travel to work on \u2013 made in Derby. Even the station I arrived at this morning \u2013 St Pancras International – was made in Derbyshire.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sniggering abated \u2013 and the conversation quickly turned to what pubs we got barred from back in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Truth is, I revel in seeing these reminders of my home city when I\u2019m on my travels, whether it be someone in a Derby County<\/a> shirt on a Cypriot beach or craning my neck to see a Rolls-Royce powered jet fly over a Putney beer garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Derby has made a contribution that stretches far beyond its city boundaries \u2013 and continues to do so to this day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, last month we reported that a new fleet of London Northwestern Railway trains, built at Alstom<\/a>\u2019s Litchurch Lane Works in Derby, had entered into service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are expected to carry millions of passengers to and from London Euston railway station every year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Derby built trains start operating London services<\/a><\/blockquote>