Quarry Bank Mill

[poliphilo]

Quarry Bank Mill at Styal was opened in the 1780s and is now a working museum. We went there with Ruth, my sister-in-law. I now know about carding and spinning and weaving and have some idea of the hellishness of factory work in the early years of the industrial revolution. Samuel Greg, the owner of Quarry Bank, was a model employer by the standards of the age, but still expected his child "apprentices"- boys and girls- to work 13 hours a day, six days a week. 

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[goddlefrood.livejournal.com]

This year, apparently. Still, the mill hasn't changed much and it was those photos I was looking at, not the garden ;-)

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART55060.html

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes, the mill is pretty much as it always was.

So this is the first year the garden has been open to the public. Nice.

[goddlefrood.livejournal.com]

Maybe next time I'm up, which could be fairly soon, I may go along. Meanwhile, as I have to be in Court at the bizarrely early hour of 8.15 a.m. I'll be off.