Industrial Metamorphosis: The 19th to 21st Centuries

Agenda Theme 5

5.1: How did the various mill owners react as spinning declined in profitability during the 19th century and the heart of textile manufacture shifted northwards to the fossil fuel-powered mills of Lancashire and Cheshire?

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5.2: What impacts did the expansion into the Derwent Valley of the English Sewing Cotton Company have upon the profitability of textile production, beginning with their investment at Masson Mill in 1897 and subsequently at Belper?

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5.3: How have factory uses evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries?

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5.4: Who took over and invested in the factories as the textile industry declined, who are the current owners and what are their aspirations?

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5.5: What will be the socio-economic and built environment legacy of the recent expansion of small medium enterprises (SMEs) into disused mills and other factory buildings, as exemplified by 21st century developments at Cromford and Darley Abbeys Boars Head Mills?

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5.6: How did Derby metamorphose from an early focus of mechanised silk production, following the building of John Lombes water-powered Silk Mill in 1721, into a diverse industrial, commercial and cultural centre of continuing regional importance?

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5.7: What is the archaeological legacy of 19th and 20th century industry in the Derwent Valley, and how significant is this as a resource for understanding its industrial development?

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5.8: How has the industrialisation and subsequent de-industrialisation of the Derwent Valley encouraged the development of tourism and recreation?

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5.1: How did the various mill owners react as spinning declined in profitability during the 19th century and the heart of textile manufacture shifted northwards to the fossil fuel-powered mills of Lancashire and Cheshire?

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5.2: What impacts did the expansion into the Derwent Valley of the English Sewing Cotton Company have upon the profitability of textile production, beginning with their investment at Masson Mill in 1897 and subsequently at Belper?

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5.3: How have factory uses evolved in the 20th and 21st centuries?

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5.4: Who took over and invested in the factories as the textile industry declined, who are the current owners and what are their aspirations?

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5.5: What will be the socio-economic and built environment legacy of the recent expansion of small medium enterprises (SMEs) into disused mills and other factory buildings, as exemplified by 21st century developments at Cromford and Darley Abbeys Boars Head Mills?

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5.6: How did Derby metamorphose from an early focus of mechanised silk production, following the building of John Lombes water-powered Silk Mill in 1721, into a diverse industrial, commercial and cultural centre of continuing regional importance?

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5.7: What is the archaeological legacy of 19th and 20th century industry in the Derwent Valley, and how significant is this as a resource for understanding its industrial development?

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5.8: How has the industrialisation and subsequent de-industrialisation of the Derwent Valley encouraged the development of tourism and recreation?

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5.5: What will be the socio-economic and built environment legacy of the recent expansion of small medium enterprises (SMEs) into disused mills and other factory buildings, as exemplified by 21st century developments at Cromford and Darley Abbeys Boars Head Mills?

5.6: How did Derby metamorphose from an early focus of mechanised silk production, following the building of John Lombes water-powered Silk Mill in 1721, into a diverse industrial, commercial and cultural centre of continuing regional importance?