What’s On At Cromford Mills SEPTEMBER 2018

Thursday 6^th – Sunday 9^th September

HERITAGE OPEN DAYS

Thursday 6^th September

HERITAGE TALK: Women in the Mill

Location: Gothic Warehouse

Cost: FREE

Time: 1:30pm – 3pm

Speaker: Joan Link

Women made up the majority of the mill workforce, but what was life like in this newly mechanised industry with their children working alongside them? This talk explores working life for women in industry in the 18^th century. 

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information or you would like to book a place

Thursday 6^th September

HERITAGE TALK: Cromford’s European connection – Bruegelmann and Ratingen

Location: Gothic Warehouse, Ground Floor

Cost: £8

Time: 7pm (Refreshments) 7:30pm (Talk Begins)

Speaker: Peter South

Johann Gottfried Bruegelmann introduced powered cotton spinning to continental Europe just as Sir Richard Arkwright did to Britain, and to the world. This talk explores the similarities and differences in their careers, lives and the geo-political situation facing them both.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information or you would like to book a place

Friday 7^th September-

HERITAGE TOUR: Rule and Riot

Location: Cromford Mills

Cost: FREE

Time: 1:30pm – 3pm

Speaker: David Romaine

Find out more about law, order and industrial espionage during Georgian times, and just how strict life was working at the mills. 

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information.

Saturday 8^th September

 

HERITAGE TOUR: Cotton to Canal

Location: Cromford Mills, Meet at the Shop in main yard

Cost: FREE

Time: 11am – 12:30pm 

Speaker: Steve Boothroyd

Come on a journey of discovery about the dramatic changes in travel over the last 200 years as transportation expanded with industrial demands.

This tour starts at Cromford Mills and finishes along the canal.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information.

Sunday 9^th September

HERITAGE TOUR: Cromford village

Location: Cromford Mills, Meet at the Shop in main yard

Cost: FREE

Time: 1.30pm – 3pm  

Speaker: Jill Banks

Follow in the footsteps of the hundreds of mill workers and explore 18^th century life in Derbyshire’s oldest factory village.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information.

Wednesday 12^th September

KNIT AND NATTER

Time: 10am-12 noon

Location: Arkwright’s Café

Cost: FREE ENTRY

Join us for a morning of knitting and nattering. This drop in session is suitable for anyone who wants to knit, learn to knit or just fancies a chat.

Tuesday 11^th  September

BAMFORDS VALUATION DAY

Time: 2pm -5pm

Location: Arkwright’s Café

Cost: Free Entry

Bamfords Auctioneers and Valuers, invite you to bring along items of interest for a free valuation and can be left for auction in the next appropriate sale. A walk-in event, where you can have items evaluated completely free of charge.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information.

Thursday 13^th September

ARKWRIGHT SOCIETY TALK: The Derwent Valley and Other World Heritage Sites

Location: Gothic Warehouse

Time: 7pm (refreshments) 7:30pm (talk begins)

Cost: £8 per person

Speakers: Chas and Pauline Arnold

Obscure, remote, threatened, natural or man-made, we will visit some of the 1073 World Heritage Sites scattered throughout the world. We will compare the Derwent Valley with similar industrial sites and contrast it with its more glamorous partners. By the end of the evening your holiday wish list will have been considerably lengthened.

Advanced booking is recommended to avoid disappointment.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information or you would like to book a place.

Saturday 15^th - Sunday 16^th September

OUTDOOR FAMILY FUN WEEKEND

Time: 10am – 4pm

Location: Cromford Mills, Mill Yard

Cost: FREE ENTRY (small charge for some activities)

The outdoor weekend at the mill is going to be a busy one, there is plenty for all to be doing, learn about different sports and outdoor activities. Also demonstrations will be available such as bush crafts, climbing, cycling, abseiling, fishing and more.

Outdoor Trail – Wonder around the yard to find all the pieces you need in order to make your master piece. (£1 Trail)

Indoor and Outdoor Games – Come along and join in with a variety of pirate and princess themed games that are fun for all the family.

Craft Workshop – Take part in a themed workshop on over the weekend. 

Drop in anytime between 12am-4pm, Charges applies to specific activities (accompanying adults free).

Arkwright’s Café Treats – Visit our fantastic onsite café in the mill yard. Here you will be able to enjoy plenty of tasty treats.

Outdoor Fun  - Barbeque - Guided Tours – Craft Workshop– Arkwright Experience- Gift Shop – Wheatcroft’s Wharf – Arkwright’s Café-  Market Stalls

For more information please contact: events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or 01629 823256

Saturday 15^th-Sunday 16^th September

CROMFORD MILLS MARKET

Time: 10am-4pm

Cost: Free Entry

Location: Mill Yard

Cromford Mills will be holding a market in the mill yard. Stalls will sell their large range of goods and services.

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call 01629 823256 if you would like more information or you would like to have a stall pitch from £20 per day.

Sunday 16^th September

ARKWRIGHT SPINSTERS

Time: 11am-4pm

Location: Gothic Warehouse

Cost: FREE ENTRY

The Arkwright Spinsters will be demonstrating spinning and fibre crafting and sharing their skills. Bring your own spinning wheel and learn to spin or learn with group equipment by prior arrangement.

Please contact arkwrightspinsters@yahoo.co.uk if you would like to arrange a lesson.

Saturday 29^th September

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION CONFERENCE 2018

Time: 9:30am – 5:30pm  

Cost: £45 or Early bird price of £35 if booked before 31^st August

Location: Cromford Mills 

 

The fifth Arkwright Society Academic Conference on the Industrial Revolution will take place on Saturday 29th September 2018.

Leading British experts on the Industrial Revolution will set out their views on the time when Britain changed in every way.  This year’s Conference continues to examine how the Industrial Revolution affected the lives of workers and will focus on the large numbers of women and children who moved from the informal workforce into a more structured working environment.  

• We start with a brief overview of Belper North Mill research and publication by Dr Rosemary Annable.
• A lecture from Dr Matthew Roberts covers how Framework Knitting was organised in Nottinghamshire and the effect this had on the local economy.  
• Professor Karen Harvey looks at how Industrialisation also took its toll on male bodies and their wellbeing.
• Professor Hannah Barker shares insight from her role as historical adviser for the National Trust at Quarry Mill.
• Professor Christine Piper will focus on the gradual development of systems to protect working women and children.
• Dr James Dowey talks about the early Knowledge Institutes which helped workers and others to gain the knowledge and ability to develop machinery.
• Our final talk comes from Professor Colin Heywood who will consider the reading of children in the C19th as education became more widespread.

The price (£45) includes a lunch described by previous attendees as ‘far nicer than any Academic Conference we have ever attended’, and a chance to see the Cromford Mills, where successful spinning by water power began for the first time in 1771 and sparked a revolution in the textile industry all over the world.

 

Please contact events@arkwrightsociety.org.uk or call or 01629 823256 if you would like more information or you would like to book a place.