Georgian Derbyshire Festival  Events: Saturday 17 September 2022
Events in Belper
Theme: Water

The Georgian Flow

Time: 9.30 am to 4pm
Venue: Belper Library, Derwent Street, Belper, DE56 1UQ
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: Wheelchair accessible

A display in Belper Library using textile art to tell the story of water and its uses along the Derwent Valley in Georgian times. Free entry – the display will remain up for the rest of September.

Georgian Belper Walk

Time: 10am to 12 noon
Start: Strutt’s North Mill Visitor Centre, Bridge Foot, Belper, DE56 1YD
Cost: FREE
Booking essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/georgian-belper-walk-tickets-400724256037

Exploring life in the town in the days when the Strutts’ nightwatchmen patrolled Belper at night. Adrian uses the watchmen’s original reports of incidents in the town to understand life in Georgian Belper. Two-hour walk around the town centre, good footwear recommended.

Belper Unitarian Chapel Opening

Time: 1pm to 4pm
Venue: Belper Unitarian Chapel, 36 Green Lane, Belper, DE56 1DG
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: Limited access available to wheelchair users, accessible toilet

The chapel will be open to the public, with images of old Belper and information on display. In 1787/8 Jedidiah Strutt acquired land for a chapel for an independent congregation, later known as the Unitarian Chapel. Many Georgian features of this historic building survive.

Hydro Opening

Time: 1pm to 2pm
Venue: Turbine House, East Mill car park, Belper, DE56 1BE
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book

Belper Mills Turbine House open to the public, with a display on the use of waterpower within the Belper Mill Complex.

Celebrating Georgian Derbyshire at Strutt’s North Mill

Time: 1.30pm to 4pm
Venue: Strutt’s North Mill Visitor Centre, Bridge Foot, Belper, DE56 1YD
Cost: FREE
Booking: All are drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly and accessible toilet

With just two weeks to see the museum before it closes, take a tour with a costumed guide to discover what Georgian Belper was like under the Strutt family, who owned the mills. Try out the waterwheel weaving activity, find out more about the River Derwent as part of the ‘water theme’ for the Georgian Derbyshire Festival and explore this amazing museum before the doors close at the end of September.

World of the Workers

Time: 2pm
Starts: Strutt’s North Mill Visitor Centre, Bridge Foot, Belper, DE56 1YD
Cost: £5 per adult, children under 16 free
Booking essential: www.belpernorthmill.org.uk/calendar

A walk around the community created for the Strutt millworkers during the Georgian era, led by Christine Smith.

Barry Lyndon (1975)

Time: 4pm
Venue: Ritz Cinema Belper, 76B King Street, Belper, DE56 1QA
Cost: usual ticket prices apply (see website below)
Booking recommended: https://ritz-belper.co.uk/

Director: Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson and Michael Hordern

A special screening at Belper’s popular independent cinema of Stanley Kubrick’s detailed adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel about the picaresque exploits of an 18th century Irish adventurer.

Kubrick went to extraordinary lengths to research and recreate the look of the period, taking inspiration from the era’s great visual stylists, painters such as Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth. Determined to film by natural or historically accurate light sources, Kubrick and his cinematographer John Alcott acquired super-fast lenses to capture scenes lit only by candles. The finished film has a pristine, painterly look and some scenes were shot locally at Chatsworth.

Contrasting Uses for Water in Georgian Times

Time: 5pm to 6.30pm
Venue: No 28, Market Place, Belper, DE56 1FZ
Cost: FREE – suggested donation of £5 welcome
Booking: No need to book, just turn up
Accessibility: wheelchair friendly, Toilet (not accessible)

The celebration of water – Water Features and Fountains – with Trevor Gilman

Water has always been essential to life. Trevor Gilman draws on his experience of design and history to look at the celebration of water from the adornment of ancient springs to today’s animated displays. The talk concludes by asking why, in a town whose very existence is down to its spa water, do we do so little to celebrate it.

The water systems of the Derwent Valley Mills – with Ian Jackson

Ian explores how the power of the River Derwent and its tributaries powered the world’s first factories – and how lessons learnt then could inform the future.

Georgian Life Through Songs and Stories

Time: 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Venue: Belper Unitarian Chapel, 36 Green Lane, Belper, DE56 1DG
Cost: £5 per person – pay at the door
Booking: to reserve seats, email dvmwhs@derbyshire.gov.uk with your name and number of seats needed
Accessibility: limited access available to wheelchair users, accessible toilet

Join Pete Castle in his concert covering the many different aspects of life and society in Georgian times. Books and CDs will be available to purchase too.

Georgian Derbyshire Festival  Events 17 September 2022
Events in Buxton
Theme: Society

‘Playful Puppets’ – Storytelling in Georgian

Time: 10am to 11.30am
Venue: The Assembly Rooms, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: No need to book – just drop in
Accessibility: The Assembly Rooms are located within the Crescent itself, which are reached by a small set of stone steps at the entrance. However, there is ramped access at one end of the Crescent. Once inside there is a list to the 1^st floor where the Assembly Rooms are located.

Bring your family and come and join us in the Assembly Room where you will make your own playful puppets and listen to some compelling storytelling – Georgian style!

Georgian Style in Buxton

Time: 10am to 5pm
Venue: Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Terrace Road, Buxton, SK17 6DA
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: no need to book – just drop in.

To celebrate the Georgian Festival, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery is exhibiting some of its souvenirs and artefacts from Georgian Buxton. Come and see enamel patch boxes, ceramics and fans plus early engravings and paintings of the town in all its Georgian splendour. On display in the foyer display case and the landing exhibition area.

Walking Tour Take a Constitutional with Netta Christie from Discover Buxton Tours

Time: 3pm
Starts: Outside Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/take-a-constitutional-with-netta-christie-from-discover-buxton-tours-tickets-400662180367
Accessibility: The tour takes place in the town centre and therefore terrain will be mostly pavements and roads. However, there may be steps, gentle slopes and some uneven surfaces so please ensure suitable footwear is worn.

Come along on a walking tour of Buxton to learn about the many famous Georgians who came to take the waters here.

Meet the apothecary 

Time: 4pm to 5pm
Venue: The Buxton Crescent Heritage Experience, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE event – donations welcome
Booking essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/meet-the-apothecary-health-medicine-in-georgian-buxton-tickets-400633023157
Accessibility: See buxtoncrescentexperience.com/accessibility/

Health and medicine in Georgian Buxton.

The tour takes place in and underneath the Crescent building and therefore terrain will be mostly indoors. However, there are steps (a lift is available to go from ground to basement level) and some uneven surfaces so please ensure suitable footwear is worn.

Georgian Society Talks

Time: 5pm
Venue: Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: No need to book – just turn up
Accessibility: See buxtoncrescentexperience.com/accessibility/

Georgian assemblies, routs and masquerades: society and manners at Buxton & beyond – Dr Peter Collinge

Historian Dr Peter Collinge provides an entertaining guide to the pleasures and pitfalls of assemblies, routs and masquerades in Georgian England. He draws on a wealth of contemporary evidence, including letters, journals and illustrations, to reveal the sights, sounds and smells of some of the grandest public spaces in the land. Rules, access arrangements, dress codes and conduct (not all of it good) are brought to life through the expectations, experiences and opinionated reactions those who attended these select gatherings.

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The Children of The Industrial Revolution (Philip Parkin)

The Regency Masked Ball

Time: 7.30pm to 11pm
Venue: The Assembly Rooms, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: £35 per person
Booking essential: beyonk.com/uk/w4a42hjq/regency-ball?portal=true
Accessibility: The Assembly Rooms are located within the Crescent itself, which are reached by a small set of stone steps at the entrance. However, there is ramped access at one end of the Crescent. Once inside there is a list to the 1^st floor where the Assembly Rooms are located

A wonderful evening of Regency music and dancing, refreshments and frivolity, taking their guests on a journey back through time to when Buxton was enjoying its Georgian heyday. Guests will be asked to dress in Regency costume or black tie and ball-gown, to add to the unique atmosphere and honour the occasion. Expect top hats, feathers, fans and fantastic frocks!