Industrial World Heritage webinar # 3 – Derwent Valley Mills
February 26, 2024
Number 3 in a series of 7 webinar talks, on the UK’s World Heritage Industrial Heritage Sites
Date & Time: Thursday 7th March 2024, starting 7pm, ending 8pm (UK time)
World Heritage Site: Derwent Valley Mills – Industry in the Heart of Beauty
Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley is the birthplace of the factory system, where water power was first successfully harnessed for mass production, ushering in the modern industrial age. The need for people to come together to work in the mills resulted in the rapid creation of new communities, complete with infrastructure to provide for their educational and spiritual needs. Today those early mills, and their communities, can still be seen in their stunning valley landscape setting, some barely changed in over 200 years. Their significance was recognised in 2001 when they were inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List.
Speaker: Adrian Farmer, Heritage Coordinator, Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, Derbyshire County Council
Adrian has for nearly 20 years been coordinating all heritage aspects relating to the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site – from planning responses to research, and engagement to promotion. He received the British Empire Medal in 2018 and was Highly Commended in the UK’s first Tourism Superstar Awards in 2012, for his work in this area. He has written eight local history books.
This is the 3rd of 7 webinars on Industrial WH in the UK. All are recorded and then available to watch or re-watch on YouTube. Ticket holders are sent a YT link in the days after the webinar. So if you miss one, you can catch up later.
Tickets for one webinar is £5; for all seven it’s only £25.
Book your ticket(s) here.