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From: "Mavis Johnson" <>
Subject: [CANAL-PEOPLE] Fw: [DBY] Vote for Cromford Mill tonight !!
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 16:10:26 +0100

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Subject: [DBY] Vote for Cromford Mill tonight !!


> To all loyal Derbyshire-philes,
>
> Vote for Cromford Mill Tonight!!
>
> Those who can get UK TV should tune in to BBC2 at 9.00pm
> tonight. A program called "Restoration" allows you to vote
> for one out of 30 of Britain's architectural treasures
> for help in preservation. I beg you to vote for Cromford
> Mill in Derbyshire, where Richard ARKWRIGHT built the first
> water-powered cotton mill in 1771. He was the father of the modern
> factory
> system, and changed the lives of the 6 billion people alive
> today more radically than any other invention of human
> ingenuity. Cromford Mill is the unique beginning of the
> Industrial Revolution, and must be preserved for posterity
> at all costs. Cromford Mill had these advantages, which today
> seem mundane but in 1771 were truly revolutionary:
> The shift system, worker's training, central heating,
> workers housing, paid holidays, doctor's surgery,
> canal-supplied raw materials, year-round working machinery.
> Please vote for Cromford Mill. Don't let part of
> Derbyshire's heritage to the World slip into the dust.
> This chance to save Cromford Mill may never return.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> John Palmer, Dorset, England
> Author of Wirksworth website
> http://www.wirksworth.org.uk
>
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