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  2. Derby Silk Mill - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Andrew Handyside and Company - Wikipedia

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    One of a pair of vases made by Handyside for Derby Arboretum c.1846. This one is on exhibition at the Derby Industrial Museum. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1805, Handyside worked in his uncle Charles Baird's engineering business in St. Petersburg before taking over the Brittania Foundry in 1848. It had first been opened around 1820 by ...

  4. List of museums in Derbyshire - Wikipedia

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    website, small museum of china and porcelain decorative art of the Denby Pottery Company, shop and factory tours Derby Computer Museum: Derby: Computer Museum: website. A registered charity computer museum run by volunteers [5] [6] which specialises in providing a hands on experience [7] Derby Gaol: Derby: Prison: 18th century prison Derby ...

  5. List of museums with Soap Box Derby racers - Wikipedia

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    Has as a Derby car [28] piloted by Donald Doerfert, who placed third in Dayton in 1934 and won the Best Constructed trophy. [29] On exhibit Catawba County Museum of History Newton: North Carolina: 2024 The museum hosted an exhibit titled A Race To Remember: Catawba County's Soap Box Derby (1967–1972), which opened on March 9, 2024. [30]

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  7. Lombe's Mill - Wikipedia

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    Lombe's Mill was the first successful silk throwing mill in Britain. It was built on an island on the River Derwent in Derby.It was built after John Lombe visited Piedmont in 1717 and returned to England with details of the Italian silk throwing machines – the filatoio and the torcitoio – and some Italian craftsmen. [1]

  8. Derwent Valley Mills - Wikipedia

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    In October 2013 a programme started to reinvent the silk mill for the 21st Century, incorporating the principles of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths). The museum now opens 4 days a week. [57] The Derby Industrial Museum was re-branded as the Museum of Making in November 2021. It houses a series of exhibits about the ...

  9. The Blacksmith's Shop - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Wright of Derby painted five paintings on the theme of a blacksmith's shop or a forge between the years 1771 and 1773. The Derby Museum version is of a blacksmith's shop where three men work to manufacture an iron or steel component. The presence of visitors and the nocturnal work is explained by the farrier working outside.