Georgian Derbyshire Festival Events: Sunday 18 September 2022
Events in Cromford
Theme: Society

Artisan Market at Cromford Mill

Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: wheelchair friendly, accessible toilets

An Artisan Market showcasing local makers, artisans and producers, in Arkwright’s historic mill yard. With a focus on accomplished producers and skilled craftspeople, the market is the perfect destination for holiday makers and locals alike.

Arkwright Spinsters at Cromford Wharf

Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: Gothic Warehouse, Cromford Wharf, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: wheelchair friendly, accessible toilets

The Arkwright Spinsters will be demonstrating spinning and other traditional crafts in the Gothic Warehouse.

World Heritage Site Showcase

Time: 10am to 4pm
Venue: Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: FREE
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly. Accessible toilets

Explore the research opportunities and an exhibition relating to the history of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, in the Schoolroom at Cromford Mill. Derbyshire Record Office will be displaying some of the historic items from their collection and helping visitors to explore the records. Charted Territory is an exhibition of digitised maps covering the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site, dating back over 300 years.

Georgian Costumed Tours at Cromford Mill

Time: 11 am
Venue: Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: £12.50 per adult
Booking recommended: https://www.cromfordmills.org.uk/event/georgian-festival/
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly. Accessible toilets

Join the Mill Manager in his Georgian finery and step back in time to 1797 when he was running the world’s first successful water-powered mill.

St Mary’s Church Open

Time: 11am to 4pm
Venue: St Mary’s Church, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly

A chance to explore this historic building, originally built as a chapel for the Arkwright family. It was later Gothicised and contains murals by renowned Victorian artist Alfred Octavius Hemming. Light refreshments will be served.

Time Traveller’s Tour

Time: 12.30pm to1.15pm
Venue: Cromford Mill, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: £15 per family (max 5 people per family)
Booking recommended: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/554146
Accessibility: Accessible toilets.

A tour for the young, and the young at heart. Come and learn about the history of Cromford Mill through games and challenges (you can get dressed up too if you want!). Do you have what it takes to be a master mill worker?

Tours last approx. 45 minutes, including a visit to the Arkwright Experience. Please dress for being outside and wear clothes and shoes you can move comfortably in. Suitable for 3+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Georgian Costumed Tours at Cromford Mill

Time: 2pm
Venue: Cromford Mills, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: £12.50 per adult
Booking recommended: https://www.cromfordmills.org.uk/event/georgian-festival/
Accessibility: Wheelchair friendly. Accessible toilets

Join the Mill Manager in his Georgian finery and step back in time to 1797 when he was running the world’s first successful water-powered mill.

Time Traveller’s Tour

Time: 3pm to 3.45pm
Venue: Cromford Mill, Mill Road, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: £15 per family (max 5 people per family)
Booking recommended: https://www.wegottickets.com/event/554147
Accessibility: Accessible toilets.

A tour for the young, and the young at heart. Come and learn about the history of Cromford Mill through games and challenges (you can get dressed up too if you want!). Do you have what it takes to be a master mill worker?

Tours last approx. 45 minutes, including a visit to the Arkwright Experience. Please dress for being outside and wear clothes and shoes you can move comfortably in. Suitable for 3+. All children must be accompanied by an adult.

Georgian Society – Talks

Time: 5pm to 6.30pm
Venue: Gothic Warehouse, Cromford Wharf, Cromford, DE4 3RQ
Cost: FREE, suggested donation of £5
Booking: No need to book, just turn up
Accessibility:  Wheelchair friendly, accessible toilets

Georgian assemblies, routs and masquerades: society and manners at Buxton & beyond – with 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.

The Children of The Industrial Revolution – with Philip Parkin

Life for the mills’ youngest workers in the early days of the factory system.

Georgian Derbyshire Festival Events 18 September 2022
Events in Buxton
Theme: Architecture

‘Crafting the Crescent’ – Georgian architecture in paper

Time: 10am to 11.30am
Venue: Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: See buxtoncrescentexperience.com/accessibility/

Bring your family and join us in the Pump Room whilst you create a section of the Crescent in paper.

‘Crafting the Crescent’ – Georgian architecture in Lego

Time: 12 noon to 1.30pm
Venue: Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE – donations welcome
Booking: Drop in – no need to book
Accessibility: See buxtoncrescentexperience.com/accessibility/

Bring your family and join us in the Pump Room whilst you create a section of the Crescent in Lego!

Georgian Style in Buxton

Time: 12 noon to 4pm
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: Buxton in the 18th and 19th centuries: a changing spa town – Richard Tuffrey

Time: 3pm
Starts: outside Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost:  FREE – donations welcome
Booking essential: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buxton-in-the-18th-19th-centuries-a-changing-spa-town-tickets-400653063097
Accessibility: The tour takes place in the town centre and 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

It was the Fifth Duke of Devonshire who, in the late 18th century, had the foresight to create a fashionable spa town at Buxton to take advantage of its naturally flowing warm waters. Together with his architect, John Carr, the Duke built some of the country’s finest Georgian architecture. With the arrival of the railways a century later opening the town up to new visitors, a second wave of building began under the patronage of the Seventh Duke and, later, by the Buxton Improvements Company.

Richard Tuffrey, former Conservation Officer for Buxton, will lead a tour around some of the key buildings that emerged from these two crucial periods of the town’s development, celebrating their architectural influences and looking at how the town remodelled itself to meet the needs of its changing visitors.

Georgian Architecture Talks

Time: 5pm
Venue: Buxton Visitor Centre The Pump Room, The Crescent, Buxton, SK17 6BH
Cost: FREE
Booking: Not necessary, just turn up
Accessibility: See buxtoncrescentexperience.com/accessibility/

The restoration of Buxton’s Crescent – how the Fifth Duke’s Georgian spa town vision is being revisited – (Richard Tuffrey)

Buxton has been undergoing an extensive programme of heritage-led regeneration since before the Millennium in pursuit of its vision to become an internationally recognised spa town once again. Central to this programme has been the refurbishment of the Crescent, Natural Baths and Pump Room as a 5* hotel and thermal spa complex, shops and a visitor experience telling the town’s story for the first time. Although the project has had a long and sometimes tortuous journey, the refurbishment works were finally completed in 2020 enabling the facilities to fully open last year. The presentation by Richard Tuffrey, former Conservation Officer for Buxton, will tell the story of the project and explain why it has been critical to Buxton’s wider spa town aspiration.

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The architecture of the DVMWHS (Barry Joyce)

A brief tour of the Derwent Valley’s most distinctive buildings with the former manager of Derbyshire County Council’s Conservation and Design Service.