work was completed in 2014. Draycott Mill while mainly hosting cotton and lace manufacturers, part of the premises was known to be occupied by bicycle component makers from the late 1800s. By 1922 only one lace maker was listed, and by the late 1920 no lace firms were reported onsite. However a number of firms continued to utilise the space for various industry into the 1960s. The original factory front on Market Street was in 2001 converted to housing, the units in the rear of the site still involved with varied industrial and commercial uses. One lace manufacturing business that continues into the present day is Filigree and its brand Finesse now based in Ripley, which was begun in Draycott in 1850 under the name of Michael Browne & Co, and had as directors Sir William Hicking, Sir Ernest Jardine and Sir Thomas Stanley Birkin of the Birkin baronets, all being Nottingham lace entrepreneurs. At Wilne, the mill buildings there continued to be worked by the Astle family until the late 1940s when the site was sold in 1949 to Haley and Weller, a toy company specialising in fireworks. The site continued the manufacture of these but expanded to incorporate pyrotechnics, and with rapid growth, started supplying military defence products. The business divested the consumer products arm in 1974. Following mergers and changes in ownership it now belongs to the Wescom group. Derby Canal had begun to decline into the 20th century because of competition from other transport means, firstly from the railway, and later road haulage. It struggled through the first half of the 20th century before being closed in 1964 and parts of its route outside the parish built over to accommodate road schemes such as the M1 motorway at Breaston/Long Eaton and the A52 interchange at Derby. North of Draycott village, the section of canal was simply left to dry out, was filled in and grew over with vegetation. The canal's towpath between the A6002 Derby Road bridge and Breaston village was later overhauled to become a new cycle route, which was completed by Sustrans in the 1990s. The bed of the canal is also being restored in this area by the Derby and Sandiacre Canal Trust which formed in 1994 with the aims of reopening the route of the canal, and the section within the parish is being termed as the 'Golden Mile'. The renovated mill