The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Educational Trust is a registered Charity established in 2003 in answer to a recommendation from UNESCO to provide carefully researched publications about the history of the Derwent Valley.
Initial funding was supplied by the Derbyshire Building Society and the University of Derby and, from the outset, the Trust has run a revolving fund whereby new publications are funded by existing titles.
Recently the Trust has received grants from Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Dales District Council and the Lottery Heritage Fund, which it very gratefully acknowledges.
Recently the Trust has received grants from Derbyshire County Council, Derbyshire Dales District Council and funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Arts Council England from the Great Place Scheme in the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site.
The Trust is run by a group of volunteers who all share a commitment to making Derbyshire's history and built heritage more widely appreciated, better understood and accessible to all.
We work closely with the DVMWHS Coordination Team. The Trust is very appreciative of the support from both Derbyshire Dales District Council and Derbyshire County Council.
The Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site Educational Trust, Charity number 1099279.
We publish books and guides about the World Heritage Site and its surroundings.
We aim to achieve the highest standards of accuracy and all the Trust's new publications are considered by a panel of well-informed readers before they are accepted for publication. We also reprint well regarded classic texts.
Our books and guides are informative, attractive and a pleasure to read.
The Trust's other concern is the World Heritage Site's present and future condition and it has, in the recent past, submitted views on the proposals for the redevelopment of the East Mill in Belper, and the adjoining sites, and on the next World Heritage Site Management Plan.
Please direct all enquiries to [email protected].
Audiences have welcomed this latest production from our Charity for its authentic voice and diversity. Life one hundred and fifty years ago in this small Derbyshire town was smelly, tough and dirty for almost everyone and especially hard on the children. But there is humour, pathos and relief here. Relief that while human nature may not have changed, the plumbing has; and children are no longer sent out to work, or put to work at home, before they are ten.
Join us; hear it and see it all for yourself. You won’t regret it.
Admission: £7.50
Book in advance by phone 07784 875333
or by email [email protected].
Doors open 1:45 pm. Tea, coffee and soft drinks available.
This is the first of two books describing life in Belper in the nineteenth century. These were the years that saw the town establish itself within the county as an administrative centre and, with its early railway connection, a flourishing horse-nail industry, and the seemingly inexorable growth of the Strutts' empire, what could go wrong? But the railway didn't bring investment; handcrafted nails were overtaken by those made by machine and then by imported products; and the mills contracted and were sold. The growth of the town stalled.
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Here is the story of Matlock Bath from its origin in the late seventeenth century to the recent past. At first, a remote rural spa, a century later, though still no more than a small village, its awesome scenery and mineral springs had become so highly regarded by fashionable visitors that it was spoken of alongside Bath, Buxton and Tunbridge Wells.
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