At the Heritage Centre
If you’re on the look-out for a souvenir of your visit to Wirksworth, this is the place to come. We have a great range of cards, books and gifts, including T’Owd Man and Wirksworth branded items to suit all tastes and pockets. You can also make exclusive bookings for small group visits to the museum, and purchase tickets for guided tours here.
We have a small selection of souvenirs available to purchase through our secure website, please browse through the items below.
If you would like to have items shipped to outside of the UK, please contact info@wirksworthheritagecentre.org directly.
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Hidden Wirksworth Guided Walk (Adult ticket)
£5.00Add to basketOur popular guided walks around the historic alleys of Wirksworth are back. This guided walk ticket is for an adult on one of our pre-booked tours running from outside the Heritage Centre on St John’s Street (DE4 4DS) every Wednesday to Sunday afternoon (14.30). Our first tour slot is Saturday 15th August, and the last available slot is currently Sunday September 20th.
We have put in place measures to ensure your safety by restricting these to a single household or family group (between 3 and 6 people maximum). These walks last just over an hour. Please email us first at info@wirksworthheritagecentre.org to provisionally reserve your date – do not make your payment here until the availability of your preferred slot has been confirmed.
Bookings must be made and paid for at the latest by 17.00 on the previous day, although you can of course book much further ahead.
Each place costs £5 per adult and £1 tickets are available for under 16s (who are not allowed unaccompanied by an adult).
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Hidden Wirksworth Guided Walk (Child ticket)
£1.00Add to basketOur popular guided walks are back, and we have put in place measures to ensure your safety by restricting these to a single household or family group (between 3 and 6 people maximum). These walks last just over an hour, and are available as pre-booked tours every Wednesday to Sunday afternoon, initially from August 15th to September 20th, starting at 14.30. Children under 16 yrs) must be accompanied by an adult.
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Museum time allocated visit
£20.00Add to basketTo ensure your safety and comfort at the present time we are offering exclusive access to our museum galleries in timed 45 minute slots (available on the hour, Friday-Tuesday 10am – 3pm) for up to four individuals or two household ‘bubble’ groups. Please book these by contacting us stating your preferred day and time at info@wirksworthheritagecentre.org. or by calling 01629 707000 during opening hours. When you have been allocated an agreed time slot please make payment here. Please also ensure that you arrive 10 minutes before this so that we can guide you safely to the start of your visit.
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Woolly Rhino
£9.00 – £15.00Select optionsWoolly rhino plush toy in 2 sizes.
Small – 27cm (length)
Large – 40cm (length) -
DVD – When T’Owd Man Faced T’Kaiser
£7.50Add to basketTales of Wirksworth’s contribution to the Great War.
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DVM – Cromford Revisited
£18.00Add to basketThis new study of Cromford, the Arkwright family’s factory village, uses water-colours, drawings and photographs and previously unexplored archive material, to present an authoritative account of the origins and growth of this iconic settlement through to its discovery as a heritage destination and the subsequent inscription of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in 2001.
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DVM – The Arkwrights – Spinners of Fortune
£18.00Add to basketThe definitive biography of Sir Richard Arkwright (1732-1792) and the first detailed account of the life of his only son Richard Arkwright Junior (1755-1843), and the dynasty he founded and sustained from his immense wealth. It considers his family’s origins in Lancashire; his education; inventions; patents won and lost; the Arkwright system; his emergence as a public figure and the business empire he created.
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DVM – The Derwent Valley Mills and their Communities
£18.00Add to basketThe story of the industrialisation of Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley during the last thirty years of the eighteenth century and beyond by successive generations of textile factory masters. It describes the several communities they built, reproduces the evidence of the Valley’s textile heritage and includes photographs of a large proportion of the Site’s 838 listed buildings.
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DVM – The Strutts and the Arkwrights
£18.00Add to basketA pioneering case study of the birth of the factory system in Derbyshire’s Derwent Valley. It charts the development of Richard Arkwright’s and Jedediah Strutt’s textile empires with particular focus on their cotton mills in Cromford, Belper and Milford with the communities they built to sustain them.
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Greetings Cards by Iain Mackay (Pack of 6)
£15.00Add to basket6 greetings cards featuring watercolour scenes of Wirksworth.
15cm x 15cm.
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Greetings Cards of T’Owd Man (Pack of 3)
£6.00Add to basketGreetings cards in three colourways, featuring the T’Owd Man logo.
12cm x 12cm.
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Matlock Bath – A Perfectly Romantic Place
£18.00Add to basketFantastic new history of Matlock Bath, by Christopher Charlton and Doreen Buxton. 246 pages, with detailed illustrations. Soft cover.
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T’Owd Man’s Kibble Jute Bag
£8.00Add to basketJute shopping bag with polypropylene lining.
30cm x 30cm.
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Wirksworth – A History (Paperback)
£7.99Add to basketThe definitive book on 2000 years of Wirksworth history. Now in new, updated Second Edition.
Authors Mary Wiltshire and Anton Shone.
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Wirksworth Apron
£10.45Add to basketCotton apron featuring many of Wirksworth’s historic buildings.
Neutral with dark green print.
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