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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[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I visited the mill with a school group about 25 years ago.

Thanks for the Balzac link. There are some titles there I recognise and some I don't. I reckon some of them may be early rarities.

[goddlefrood.livejournal.com]

I'll get to Balzac soon enough. Oddly enough, around the time your first review of his work appeared I'd been saving links all over the net to various bits of his. It's time to start reading some of them. Some at the readbooksonline site looked to be unavailable elsewhere, excepting antiquarian bookshops maybe.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The English speaking world is woefully ignorant of Balzac. The more I read the more my admiration grows.