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]

The mill belongs to the National Trust and has been open for at least 20 years- because i remember going round it with a party of schoolkids when I was a vicar. I don't know about the footpath, but it seems highly likely.