Derby could be next to lose its UNESCO heritage status amid plans to erect a 17-storey apartment block opposite an historic silk mill. Culture experts at the Paris-based organisation are concerned ...

Also considered the first successful silk factory in Britain, the Mill was built on an island across the River Derwent in the earliest periods of the industrial revolution. John Lombe (1693 - 1722 ...

The towering red-brick building, Derby Silk Mill, that houses the Museum of Making is itself a key piece of history. It is on the site of a silk-throwing mill built in 1721 by brothers John and ...

The strike took place 190 years ago in the winter of 1833 -34 and started with a lockout by the bosses at Derby Silk Mill over workers refusing pay cuts, and refusing to renounce trades unionism.

The silk mill lockout was a sustained and bitter battle. It is commemorated today not only by the annual march, rally and festival but by the mural on the Silk Mill pub next to the Mill itself — now ...

Derby Silk Mill is part of the Derwent Valley Mills UNESCO World Heritage Site Derby Museums has reached a £1m fundraising target which will be doubled to £2m by The National Lottery Heritage ...