
Peter Kay knew a little bit about Florence Nightingale when he saw that her childhood home in Derbyshire was for sale in 2011.
He knew of her legendary status as a nurse and social reformer; of her Lady with the Lamp nickname. And he knew, when he saw the house advertised in a local paper, that he had to buy it — even though he lived in Singapore at the time, and hadn’t planned to move back to the UK.