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Capes on tour: Magpie Mine

by Pluvmantelo
August 18, 2025
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Head into the heart of Clair The Cape Queen’s domain and you’ll find Magpie Mine, Derbyshire’s last working lead mine. Situated high up in the Peak District it’s a fantastic survivor and one that’s a reminder of the nation’s past, closing in 1958. But while, …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire. Part 2

by Pluvmantelo
August 11, 2025
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The Cape Queen doesn’t mind a bit of shopping every now and then and while in Stone she came across this excellent emporium. As you can see, she was especially taken by the selection of brushes and brooms – and you have to agree shopping …

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Capes on tour: Stone, Staffordshire

by Pluvmantelo
August 7, 2025
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Stone’s a proper, traditional English town and it’s the template for what a town should be like. It’s bustling, courtesy of its variety of shops (independent and chain) and there’s plenty of car parking. Its architecture adds to the traditional town feeling that there’s no …

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Capes on Tour: Back in Congleton

by Pluvmantelo
July 10, 2025

Sunny, yes: but is that any reason not to be wearing a cape? Clair The Cape Queen needs no downpour-induced excuse to get caped and on a bright sunny day her longer Rukka cape really looked the part as she swished through the streets of …

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Capes on Tour: Macclesfield, part 4

by Pluvmantelo
July 7, 2025
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Looking back just a few weeks to that VERY wet day in Macclesfield it’s lucky Clair The Cape Queen was more than adequately prepared for the deluge to come. And rain it did, to paraphrase Sister Rosetta Tharpe. But the 1970s plastic cape did the …

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Capes on Tour: Congleton in black and white

by Pluvmantelo
July 3, 2025
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We’ve decided there aren’t enough black and white images of The Cape Queen, so it’s time to make up for that. And here’s a selection from our recent Congleton trip. No further comment’s needed from us, but what do you think? Should there be more …

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Capes on Tour: Moving stuff

by Pluvmantelo
June 30, 2025
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Clair The Cape Queen’s been out on the roads of Mercia moving things and with the weather being uncertain was suitably caped (Rukka, no less) – just in case there was a downpour. We caught up with her between load-shifting and the results were, let’s …

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Capes on Tour: Coing the Congle…. Ton (part 2)

by Pluvmantelo
June 26, 2025
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What a contrast to that cape-right rainy day in Macclesfield, but while Congleton was bathed in sun that didn’t stop The Cape Queen getting, well, caped-up for some town-centre shopping. This time it was a short Rukka number that’s not been worn very much but …

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Capes on Tour: Back in Macc’ (lesfield)

by Pluvmantelo
June 19, 2025
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That Macclesfield day more than summed up the usefulness of an old-school cape, whose rain shrugging-off prowess came to the fore as the skies opened up. And in the homely surrounds of Macclesfield, Clair The Cape Queen’s cape laughed off the rain as it fell …

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Capes on Tour: The Cape Queen in Congleton, part 1.

by Pluvmantelo
June 16, 2025
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A few days after The Cape Queen had the biblical-like dousing in Macclesfield she set off for Congleton, accompanied by much more friendly weather. The town’s filled with fine red-brick architecture and many buildings date back a few centuries – these made a top-class backdrop …

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