* At the extreme southern end of the site, Lombe's Silk Mill now houses the Derby Industrial Museum.

Flax, for linen, had been grown in Flaxholme, from the fifteenth century, on the instructions from King Henry V. Silk thread began to be produced in quantity by John Lombe in Derby, likewise cotton thread in Belper.

The Silk Mill was one of the tourist attractions of Derby and was visited by Boswell in September 1777.

Derby Silk Mill, probably in the early 1900s, before the 1910 fire.

Derby City Council closed the museum on 3 April 2011 in order to free funds for the redevelopment of the Silk Mill museum and other museums in the city.

Derby in Crisis: the Silk Mill Lock-Out 1833-4, Derby, H. E. Butterton ( 1997 )

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In December 2001 a 15-mile corridor from Masson Mill in Matlock Bath to the Silk Mill in Derby and including the mills in Cromford, Milford, Belper and Darley Abbey was declared the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.

Following Vignoles's reassessment in 1835 a new route was proposed, either north or south of the Derby Canal to a terminus near St. Mary's Bridge with a branch to Full Street near to John Lombe's Silk Mill.

In June 2009, Bath Street Mill in Derby was damaged by fire.

* The Scott Brow Fishing Derby is an annual event held every spring at the Old Mill Pond.

( Other claims might be made for John Lombe's silk mill in Derby ( 1721 ), or Richard Arkwright's Cromford Mill ( 1772 )— purpose built to fit the equipment it held and taking the material through the various manufacturing processes.

*# Epsom Derby – Mill Reef

Courses are also run at the Britannia Mill site in Derby and the Chesterfield Centre for health education.

These courses are offered at Roehampton University, University of Derby, Sesame, Anglia Ruskin University, and The School of Dramatherapy at the The Iron Mill Institute.

Although his breeding hinted otherwise, Mill Reef then proved himself to be the outstanding middle distance racehorse of the year, easily winning the Epsom Derby by two lengths from Linden Tree, the Eclipse Stakes at Sandown beating the crack French colt Caro by four lengths and the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Ascot by six lengths from the Derby Italiano winner Ortis.

* Mill Reef winning the 1971 Epsom Derby ( Video )

Tuebrook has two secondary schools nearby: Holly Lodge Girls College located on Queens Drive and West Derby School located on Mill Bank.

Slip Anchor was the fifth Epsom Derby winner whose sire ( Shirley Heights ) and paternal grandsire ( Mill Reef ) were themselves winners of Britain's premier classic.

* Derby Racer ( Revere Beach ), a roller coaster that formerly operated at Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts

In 1928, the paper began printing in Manchester on the presses of the News Chronicle in Derby Street, moving in 1960 into Thomson House, Withy Grove ( formerly known as Kemsley House ) when the News Chronicle closed.

* Stephen Pearson, Derby County midfielder, formerly of Motherwell

Historically a part of Lancashire, Rainhill was formerly a township within the ecclesiastical parish of Prescot, and hundred of West Derby.

* University of Derby – formerly the Derbyshire College of Higher Education

* Stanley, Edward Smith, thirteenth earl of Derby ( formerly Lord Stanley ) ( 1775 – 1851 ), politician and naturalist by Clemency Thorne Fisher in Dictionary of National Biography

Wyndham features the last remaining meatworks in the Kimberley-there were formerly works at Broome and Derby but financial constraints have caused these to be closed.

The campus was formerly the Bishop Lonsdale College of Education, run by the Church of England ( Derby Diocese ), and housed the Education and Health departments as well as some social science courses.

North of Leicester, before the dual carriageway section bypassing Derby was built, the A50 formerly went through Burton upon Trent and Ashby-de-la-Zouch to Leicester, but that section is now designated the A511 road.

The system has 15 Incentro AT6 / 5 trams, similar to those used in Nantes, built by Bombardier Transportation ( formerly ADtranz ) in Derby.

Market stones took many forms, here we see the stone placed at Friar Gate ( formerly Nuns Green ) at the northern road into Derby ( England ).

The bishop's seat ( cathedra ) or see is located in the City of Derby at The Cathedral Church of All Saints – formerly a parish church which was elevated to cathedral status in 1927.

Derby College uses a converted roundhouse building next to Derby railway station, formerly of the North Midland Railway, as its Derby College @ Roundhouse campus.

Chaddesden, also known locally as Chad, is a large suburb of Derby, United Kingdom, formerly known as Cedesdene.

In this instance, therefore, the surname signifies simply "( descendant of ) one who hails from Scarisbrick ", this being the name of the township in the Lancashire parish of Ormskirk, in what was formerly known as the West Derby Hundred.

On 7 June 2007, Metronet announced that the contract for operating and maintaining the test track had been awarded to Serco Assurance ( formerly Serco Railtest ), based at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.

Boissevain, not far from Turtle Mountain and Turtle Mountain Provincial Park, also formerly hosted the " International Turtle Derby ", a turtle race, each summer.

The park was opened in July 1971 by Edward Stanley, 18th Earl of Derby and Jimmy Chipperfield using the expertise of General Manager Laurence Tennant MBE, formerly the Chief Game Warden of Parks in Uganda and Botswana.

The site is today maintained by Richard Felix formerly of Derby Heritage Centre.

Again, in 1776, he acquired the remainder of the formerly prestigious Bow porcelain factory, of which he also transferred the portable elements to Derby.