this was followed in derbyshire by jedediah strutt's cotton spinning mills at belper. they were: south mill, the first, 1775; north mill, 1784, which was destroyed by fire on 12 january 1803 and then rebuilt; it started work again at the end of 1804; west mill, 1792, commenced working 1796; reeling mill, 1897; round mill, which took 10 years to build, from 1803 to 1813, and commenced working in 1816; and milford mills, 1778. the belper and milford mills were "not" built in partnership with arkwright. these mills were all strutt owned and financed.