* 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.

Derby Silk Mill, formerly known as Derby Industrial Museum, is a museum of industry and history in Derby, England.

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

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.

But the figure of Alice Countess of Derby is probably closer to historical reality.

Pym died, probably of cancer, at Derby House on 8 December 1643 and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

Troy weight probably takes its name from the French market town of Troyes in France where English merchants traded at least as early as the early 9th century .< ref name =" OED3troy2 "> The name " troy " is first attested in 1390, describing the weight of a platter, in an account of the travels in Europe of the Earl of Derby.

Barnstaple, Bath, Bedford, Bedwyn, Bridport, Bristol, Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge, Canterbury, Cardiff, Chester, Chichester, Christchurch, Colchester, Cricklade, Derby, Devitum ( probably St David's, South Wales ), Dorchester, Dover, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester, Guildford, Hastings, Hereford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Hythe, Ilchester, Ipswich, Launceston, Leicester, Lewes, Lincoln, London, Maint, Maldon, Malmesbury, Marlborough, Northampton, Norwich, Nottingham, Oxford, Peterborough, Pevensey, Rhuddlan, Rochester, Romney, Salisbury, Sandwich, Shaftesbury, Shrewsbury, Southwark, Stafford, Stamford, Steyning, Sudbury, Tamworth, Staffordshire, Taunton, Thetford, Totnes, Wallingford, Wareham, Warwick, Watchet, Wilton, Winchcombe, Winchester, Worcester, and York.

It was probably erected in the 1230s, between 1232 and 1235 under the orders of William de Ferrers, 4th Earl of Derby.

Alvaston is situated on the A6, three miles south-east of Derby city centre and probably owes its name to to Allwald.

William McIntosh " Billy " Davies ( born 31 May 1964 ) is a Glasgow-born Scottish former football manager, noted for his achievement in the Football League Championship with East Midlands Rivals Derby County and Nottingham Forest and Preston North End which has led him to be described, in 2011, as " probably the best manager at this level, in the game.

Katherine's devotion was rewarded after the triumph of Henry VII at Bosworth, where Nicholas Vaux, as a protégé of Margaret Beaufort, probably fought under her husband Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby ; the petition for the reversal of the attainder on Vaux's father and the forfeiture of his property was accepted by the King in the Parliament of 1485, and not long after Vaux was named to the commission of the peace for his home county.

For early vacationers there's the fun-filled Fishing Derby in Hot Springs, Arkansas, April 19-23, and the Arkansas Band Festival in Hot Springs, April 20-22.

Initially the Derby was run on a Thursday in late May or early June depending on when Easter occurred.

Resting at Bury nearby, Rupert was joined by the Marquess of Newcastle's cavalry under Lord George Goring, which had broken out of York early in the siege, with a small contingent from Derbyshire, and several regiments which were being freshly raised in Lancashire by the Earl of Derby.

In late August and early September, Grayson County hosts the annual Grayson County Fair, which entertains locals and guests with music, a carnival, a Truck and Tractor Pull, a Demolition Derby, and ends on Labor Day with a parade through Leitchfield.

In early Spring, the city hold a Soap Box Derby going down Hanover Street and the pit boxes are where the original High School Was.

French was pleased at the removal of Robertson and Derby early in 1918, and during the German Spring Offensive urged that Haig be sacked and replaced by Plumer.

At some time in the early 1590s Nashe produced an erotic poem, The Choice of Valentines, possibly for the private circle of Ferdinando Stanley, 5th Earl of Derby ( then known as Lord Strange ).

Begun in 1917 and heavily promoted by Union Pacific Railroad, it was on par with the Kentucky Derby and with the Indianapolis 500 in terms of interest and press coverage in the early part of the 20th century and was considered to be the world championship dogsled race.

That May, Man o ' War was not entered in the Kentucky Derby because his owner did not like racing in Kentucky and believed it was too early in the year for a young horse to go a mile and a quarter.

In its early days it was a main starting point for buses heading to Epsom on Derby Day excursions and today many bus services start from the bus station in front of the station.

Gerrard Winstanley's early life is broadly unknown, however it is known that he was baptised in 1609 in the parish of Wigan, then part of the West Derby hundred of Lancashire, and that he was the son of an Edward Winstanley, mercer.

The phrase most likely originated from The Derby, a horse race in England, founded by the 12th Earl of Derby in 1780, since at least as early as 1840 ' derby ' has been used as a noun in English to denote any kind of sporting contest.

Each spring, following the tabulation of the final votes, the announcement of new inductees is usually made during Kentucky Derby Week in early May.

However, she died unmarried at an early age and was succeeded by her aforementioned great-uncle, the tenth Earl of Derby, who became the sixth Baron Strange.

At the start of the Kentucky Derby, Affirmed let Sensitive Prince take the early lead, sitting third through the early stages, while Alydar stayed far back.

His eldest son the Honourable William Cross represented Liverpool West Derby in Parliament between 1888 and his early death in 1892.

In 1547 the college was dissolved and the property acquired by the Earl of Derby and early in the reign of King Charles II it was sold to the Governors who had been appointed in the will of Humphrey Chetham.

* Edward Wooster ( 1622 – 1689 ), early pioneer and founder of Derby, Connecticut

Later, the stadium was slowly converted to become all-seater from terracing and the capacity eventually dropped to 18, 300-inadequate for the ambitions of Derby County, who were chasing promotion to the Premier League during the early to mid 1990s, finally achieving it as Division One runners-up in 1996.

The portion of the route between New Haven and Derby was an early toll road known as the Derby Turnpike.