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Where the Rainbow Ends’ was the name of a café situated adjacent to the terminus at Ashover Butts of the seven-mile-long Ashover Light Railway. The café was owned by the railway company to provide facilities for visitors. Interestingly, the café was managed by Mabel Holmes. I am not sure if this is any relative but my father, Dennis Holmes, was born only five miles away in Clay Cross. On bank holidays and summer weekends, hundreds of people would journey to Ashover on the “little railway.” The railway was built by the Clay Cross Company primarily to service its quarries at Ashover Butts
