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View of Belper Mills showing the Jubilee Clock Tower, c 1930
Image ref
DCAV002684
Credit
W A Morley
photographer
Frith, F and Co. Ltd
ImageDate
c 1930
Location
The Triangle
Town
Belper
About this image
The area at the junction of Bridge Foot and Matlock Road is known at the Triangle. The square building on the left, at the time of the photograph the Halifax Building Society was originally the Mill Counting House; it is now (2007) Pym's Solicitors.
The Jubilee Clock Tower, on West Mill was erected in 1898 to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee of 1897. See also DCAV000478 and DCAV000480. It was demolished along with the rest of West Mill in the pre-conservation days, in 1962 and was a great loss to the Belper skyline.
The clock mechanism is now at Upton Hall Horological Museum, Newark; and the bell (note: G Sharp) is under the North Mill staircase.
The footbridge connecting the mill complex dates from 1795 and incorporates anti-luddite gun embrasures.
Postcard reference is: Frith BLP 11.
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