building on Hopwell Road will also be the base for the trust. Quarrying, archaeology and leisure Elvaston Quarry was established in the late 1960's when permission was granted for the extraction of sand and gravel from land at Sawley Road. The workings have since progressively extended westwards along the Derwent Valley. The last houses in Church Wilne were demolished in the 1960s, likely due to wider land being obtained for quarrying, and only two cottages next to the Coffin Walk are presently in the vicinity. Faint earthwork traces near Wilne church were identified in the late 1960s as evidence of the remains of its medieval village. Threats from quarrying prompted more extensive archaeological investigations in 1974 and 1975 by the Trent Valley Archaeological Research Committee. After the completion of the extraction works, the parish council obtained the land adjacent to the Wilne church from the quarry firm for a token one pound in 1984. The council redeveloped the area into a nature reserve which has since become a retreat for birds and other wildlife in the area. A large private house was constructed in the 1960s just off Gypsy Lane in the west of the parish, complete with swimming pool. It was in 1967 licensed as a restaurant called The Oasis offering cabaret entertainment facilities, with a dance floor over the pool. Later, it changed name to The Blue Orchid which ran notable Northern Soul music events throughout 1970. Continuing with nightspot facilities through the ensuing decades, it was later redeveloped into a hotel called Tudor Court containing 'Jester's Discotheque' by the middle 1980s, and in the middle 2000s the site was rebuilt into the present Coppice Park gated community. One of the post WWII proprietors of the former Rose and Crown public house (closed in 2012) was G. Arthur Musson. Although he lived outside the parish at Kilburn, he had a keen interest in boxing and in 1967 established a club in the village, which over the decades moved into a building alongside Derby Road and hosted a young people's community centre and Taekwondo martial arts club. A table tennis club had formed in 1986 at Long Eaton and was playing in locations around Sawley, while gaining a reputation for sporting prowess. Needing a permanent base, in 1999 organisers discovered the boxing gym building was a suitable location and hired out space, eventually taking over the lease, renovating and