Sat 17 Sep 22
All tours begin from Strutt’s North Mill and all proceeds go to help the museum.
Saturday 17th September at 2pm as part the Georgian Festival. There will also be the added opportunity of gett
Strutt's North Mill Museum and Visitor Centre
Bridgefoot, Belper DE56 1YD
The Community, built from 1785 onwards to house the workers in the Strutt family cotton spinning mills is considered to be the oldest surviving textile workers’ community in England – in Belper, the oldest cotton spinning town in the world. It is just a short walk to the mills, a route that the workers would have taken six days a week for their 12-hour working day. Investigate the Short Rows, walk up Long Row hearing the stories of the Community and its residents. See for yourself why Long Row i...