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Iron Stove

Part section of 1832 Dye House ironwork from Strutt complex at Milford, with earliest bolted column/beam building connections found (1977) - 5 beams, 7 columns, 3 column ties, 1 roof tie, one main rafter (timber), section of purlin wallplate dovetail box, bolts and wedges, samples of jack arch springing special bricks and floor tiles

Part section of 1832 Dye House ironwork from Strutt complex at Milford

From the Old Mill (c.1780): complete lock (with outside mechanism) (designed by Strutt) from lavatories

Complete lock from lavatories

Latch and chain with key from Clock Tower

Latch and chain with key from Clock Tower

From the Old Mill (c.1780): Centrifugal fan for ventilating lavatories

Centrifugal fan for ventilating lavatories

From the Old Mill (c.1780): Complete double ventilating slide

Complete double ventilating slide

1780
One factory window from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

Factory window from the Cruciform building

One large cobble stone, reinforced by iron in grooves from the yard outside William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

one large cobble stone, reinforced by iron in grooves from outside the Cruciform building

1793
Two cast iron windows from Wm. Strutt's cotton mills (south mill) at Belper, 1811-12

Two cast iron windows from Wm. Strutt's cotton mills (south mill) at Belper

Ironwork from William Strutt's (1756-1830) Cotton Mills (South Mill) at Belper, Derbyshire, 1811-12, (two columns, one beam, three tie-rods). Strutt set about finding an answer to the problem of timber-floored buildings; his mill was the most technically advanced building of its time, incorporating an iron frame and brick arches to make it 'fire proof'.

Ironwork from Wm. Strutt's cotton mills

1811-1812
Portion of pot-roof from Reeling Mill, Belper, 1807 (built by Wm. Strutt, FRS)

Portion of pot-roof from Reeling Mill

1807
Two iron columns with gas fittings and cast-iron fittings with cotters and tie-bar from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

Two iron columns with gas fittings and cast-iron fittings from the Cruciform building, 1793.

1793
Section of pot roof (in two cases) from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

section of pot roof

1793
Original gas-pipe, socket and spigot from William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

Original gas-pipe, socket and spigot from the Cruciform building

1793
Self-opening door from Mr. Strutt's office from the 1808 extension of William Strutt's Cruciform building at Berby Mill, Milford, 1793.

Self-opening door from Mr. Strutt's office