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04/07/2007
FOR the very first time, a guidebook has been published to showcase the only World Heritage Site in the East Midlands – Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley Mills.
The A5-sized glossy souvenir booklet is packed with co...
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04/07/2007
FOR several years English Heritage has allocated funding to allow grant schemes in the World Heritage Site to restore its built heritage.
The latest, the Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme, ended in March, but ...
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04/07/2007
For more information about the Cathedral Green project, please telephone 01332 716208, minicom 01332 256666 or email chris.lee@derby.gov.uk.
Email contact: chris.lee@derby.gov.uk
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04/07/2007
HOPPING Hill Terrace, locally referred to as East and West Terrace, is a terrace of back to back cottages built on the east side of the valley in Milford. Constructed at a date between 1813 and 1820 the Terrace is one of the most interesting o...
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04/07/2007
THE ARKWRIGHT Society has just completed renovation work on Slinter Cottage in the Via Gellia, making a holiday cottage on the first floor, with an information centre on the ground floor.
Built as a water mill in ...
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04/07/2007
THIS year the World Heritage Site Discovery Days on October 20 and 21 are being organised and co-ordinated by a group of nine Rolls-Royce Graduates, working with the World Heritage Site Co-ordinator Adrian Farmer and the many volunteers and or...
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03/07/2007
DERBYSHIRE Wildlife Trust’s Heritage Lottery funded ‘Great Trees of Derbyshire Project’ would like your help to locate and survey veteran trees in the World Heritage Site. Veteran trees are an important part ...
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03/07/2007
VOLUNTEERS and staff who work in the Derwent Valley Mill World Heritage Site are often so busy in their own part of the 15-mile Site that they don't have the chance to appreciate the rest of it!
Thanks to a ...
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03/07/2007A PAIR of peregrine falcons nesting on Derby Cathedral’s tower have produced young for the second year running. Over the Easter weekend the pair laid four eggs, two of which hatched in May.
The birds have been using a nesting platform looking...
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03/07/2007
A £3.8m scheme to redesign Cathedral Green will reflect and interpret a number of the industrial features related to the mill which once occupied this valuable public space immediately south of the historic ...
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03/07/2007
THE AUGUSTINIAN abbey at Darley was founded in 1146 and grew to become the largest abbey in Derbyshire.
The dissolution of the monasteries by Henry VIII in 1538 saw its closure when it was sold into private hands and the ...
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02/07/2007
ONE outcome of the Economic Development Plan presented to the Derwent Valley Mills Partnership at the end of 2005 was an agreement that an officer was needed to take the plan forward and work up projects to benefit the World Heritage Site.The ...
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02/07/2007
NOW in its fourth year, the Belper and Milford Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI) has completed a large number of projects, including high profile restorations at the Black Swan and the Ritz Cinema.
The THI is a partnership scheme with fundi...
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02/07/2007
DERBY’S Silk Mill is the vanguard project in the city’s Museums Capital Plan, which looks at how the service will develop across all three museum sites in the city over the next few years.
This year has seen f...
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02/07/2007
WORK has now finished on a complete review of the Management Plan for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.World Heritage Sites have an obligation to ensure that their outstanding universal value is being maintained over time and in...
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02/07/2007
IN MAY, John Smedley opened its doors to the local community, inviting them to view the company's plans for the future.The John Smedley premises are the sole surviving working textile mills in the World Heritage Site. As an internationally ren...
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02/07/2007
THE Belper Market Place Masterplan study funded by the Townscape Heritage Initiative continues to investigate the Market Place and its surroundings. The project was extended in scope to further consider a number of...
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02/07/2007
HERITAGE Protection for the 21st Century is the title of a joint England and Wales White Paper, proposing new laws which may help protect World Heritage Sites.
The White Paper sets out ways of strengthening protection of World Heritage sites ...
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02/07/2007
MILL proprietor Jedediah Strutt initiated a number of private streets in Belper in the late 18th Century. The Belper and Milford THI commissioned a team from Trent & Peak Archaeological Unit to conduct an archaeolo...
