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Derbyshire. Belper(/ˈbɛlpər/) is a town and civil parishin the local government districtof Amber Valleyin Derbyshire, England, located about 7 miles (11 km) north of Derbyon the River Derwent. Along with Belper, the parish includes the village of Milfordand the hamlets of Bargate, Blackbrook, and Makeney.
The mill is sited in Belper, a town in Derbyshire, England, roughly halfway between Derby and Matlock. The original North Mill, completed in 1786 by Jedediah Strutt , was destroyed by fire in 1803. Its replacement was built in 1804 by his son, William Strutt , on the foundations of the old mill and is one of the oldest surviving examples of an iron-framed 'fire-proof' building in the world.
Baron Belper. Arms of the Barons Belper. Baron Belper, of Belper in the County of Derbyshire, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1856 for the Liberal politician Edward Strutt, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1853 to 1854. He was son of William Strutt and the grandson of the inventor Jedediah Strutt.
River Gardens. / 53.03000°N 1.48444°W / 53.03000; -1.48444. The River Gardens is a public park in Belper, in Derbyshire, England. Its history dates back to 1905, and it is listed Grade II* in Historic England's Register of Parks and Gardens. [1] It has won a Green Flag Award.
Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett was born on 21 March 1946 in Colwyn Bay, Wales, to an English father, Peter Dalton Leggett, who was a captain in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the Second World War and was an advertising executive at the time of his son's birth; and an American mother, Dorothy Scholes, of Italian and Irish descent.
Peter Oakley (20 August 1927 – 23 March 2014) was an English pensioner and Internet personality, who posted YouTube videos under the Internet pseudonym geriatric1927. [4] ...
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Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution ", a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson, and the "Father of the American Factory System". In the United Kingdom, he was called "Slater the Traitor" [ 1] and "Sam the Slate" because he brought ...