Sunday 8 October Events

Georgian Derbyshire Festival Events
Events in Belper
Theme: People

Activities for families at Number 28

Time: 10.30am – 3.30pm includes café
Venue: Number 28, 28 Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly, toilet (not accessible)

A make and take craft activity – a pop up puppet based on famous Georgian people. A dressing up photo opportunity – featuring a girls Georgian style bonnet and Spencer Jacket/dress, a boys short tails jacket with button’s, lace Jabot, and tricorn hat. The hats will fit most children so if the outfits don’t, they can wear the hats and lace Jabot. Plus colouring in a peregrine falcon, drawing what’s in your mill window, create a mill worker design and mill related word search puzzles.

After the Mill Bell Walk

Time: 11am
Venue: Starts in Belper Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ
Cost: £6.50 per adult with accompanied under 16s free
Booking: Book on www.belpernorthmill.org.uk/calendar

Workers in Belper had a lively time outside work. Join Christine Smith on a tour of their recreation, music, worship, sports and more. Not a circular tour. Ends at Belper River Gardens.

Poetry with Our Belper Mills

Time: Midday – 12.30pm
Venue: Number 28, 28 Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ
Cost: FREE
Booking: Just turn up
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly, toilet (not accessible)

Come and listen to some poetry based on Belper with Carol Brewer including a brand new poem, suitable for children.

Unitarian Chapel Opening

Time: 1pm to 4pm
Venue: Belper Unitarian Chapel, Field Row, Belper DE56 1DG
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in
Accessibility: Limited access available to wheelchair users, accessible toilet

A chance to see inside the chapel built by Jedidiah Strutt and hear about how his Unitarian beliefs shaped the growth of the community. Exhibitions boards about the history of Belper will be on display.

St Peter’s Church, Belper

Time: 1pm – 4pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church, 6 Chesterfield Rd, Belper DE56 1FD
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

The church will be open for you to come and look around and there will be stalls and exhibitions within the church.

The Wards of Belper

Time: 1.30pm -2.15pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church, 6 Chesterfield Rd, Belper DE56 1FD
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: No need to book
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

Talk on the Ward Family by Rachel Hodgkinson and Kim Kerry. Hosiery production was an important source of employment in the Derwent Valley. The Wards of Belper set up their business in Georgian times but how much do we know about them? Here we tell the story of their family and the impact they had on our local communities.

‘Burn Bright’ Poetry Reading and Workshop

Time: 2.30pm – 4pm
Venue: St Peter’s Church, 6 Chesterfield Rd, Belper DE56 1FD
Cost: FREE
Booking: Booking essential email dvmwhs@derbyshire.gov.uk with name and number of places
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

Derbyshire poet Emma Pass was commissioned to write a piece specifically for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site and this will be her first live reading of ‘Burn Bright’, which aims to shine a light on women in the Derbyshire cotton industry, their contribution to which has not always been fully recognised. The poem also acknowledges the role of slavery in the cotton industry, and how things have changed from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Followed by a free workshop to help budding poets be inspired by the World Heritage story and their surroundings in this Georgian Church.

Georgian Belper Walks

Time: 1.30pm and 3pm
Venue: Belper Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ
Cost: FREE
Booking: No need to book

Free walk from Belper Market Place, via St Peter’s Churchyard to the Unitarian Chapel, discovering what we know of Belper in Georgian times with Adrian Farmer