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Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England. The museum is located on the former site of Lombe's Mill, a historic silk mill which marks the southern end of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. The site opened as Derby’s Industrial Museum, on 29 November 1974.
At the extreme southern end of the site, Lombe's Silk Mill now houses the Derby Industrial Museum. [55] This museum closed on 3 April 2011 and was mothballed for over two years. [56] In October 2013 a programme started to reinvent the silk mill for the 21st Century, incorporating the principles of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art ...
Lombe's Mill was the first successful silk throwing mill in England and probably the first fully mechanised factory in the world. [3] Thomas Cotchett's mill, built in Derby in 1704, was a failure. John Lombe had visited the successful silk throwing mill in Piedmont in 1716, an early example of industrial espionage. He returned to Derby with the ...
A silk mill that was enlarged and later converted for residential use, it is in red brick with slate roofs. The south mill was a ribbon mill, and has eight storeys with pedimented parapets, and fronts of twelve and four bays. The north mill was a throwing mill, and has seven storeys, a hipped roof and fronts of nine and two bays. The middle ...
The walk starts from Ladybower Reservoir in the Peak District National Park via Chatsworth, the scenery around the Derbyshire Dales, and through the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. It follows the Riverside Path through Derby and continues onwards to the historic inland port of Shardlow .
Map all coordinates using ... Derby Silk Mill; Derwent Valley Mills; H. ... Lea Mills; Lombe's Mill; List of mills in Longdendale and Glossopdale; Lumsdale Valley; M ...
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Although one of the buildings is now demolished, the right-hand mill is Derby Silk Mill, now The Museum of Making, part of Derwent Valley Mills, a World Heritage Site. The painting is displayed (in 2023) in The Museum of Making, part of Derby Museums, at the entrance to the Throwing Room.