Ghost of~ Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire,England U.K
Quarry Bank Mill, on the River Bollin in the village of Styal, was founded by Samuel Greg in 1784 for the spinning of cotton and, by the time of his retirement in 1832, it was the largest cotton spinning business in the UK. The mill was originally powered by a water wheel. During the 19th century, this was supplemented by steam engines as the water supply from the Bollin was inconsistent during the summer months.To overcome a labour shortage, many factories employed child apprentices; usually by obtaining children from orphanages and workhouses. Samuel Greg who owned the large Quarry Bank Mill at Styal was one of the first factory owners to employ this system. The first children apprentices lived in lodgings in the neighbourhood then in 1790 Greg built the Apprentice House near the factory. The building for the apprentices provided living accommodation for over 90 children. Greg hired a superintendent to attend to their care and morals and members of the Greg family and external tutors gave them lessons.Workmen renovating the Apprentice House during the 1980s claim to have seen a white lady in the medical room and others claim to have seen a woman in the attic, once directly behind a house interpreter.
The Apprentice House, Quarry Bank Mill, Styal 'Haunting'
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Quarry bank mill and the Styal Estate titled the third spookiest property by the National Trust, has a classic ghost story we all know and love. The Styal estate surrounds a village, farmland, mill owners house and the apprentice house which was used to house the children employed to work. Once a hardworking and harsh environment the mill was used to make textiles. It even has it is very own resident ghost - a Victorian lady who roams the upper floors. Although deaths and fatality records were kept none seem to suggest a lady died there. Who knows maybe she was the mill owner's wife? Or a distraught mother searching for her child/ren killed there to produce cloth? Whoever she is she seems to have unfinished business. spookyisles.com/
One of our most useful sources of information that we have here at Quarry Bank is the Mill Memorandum, which comes in two volumes and is a compilation of the information taken from the Day Books. The first from 1784-1911, and the second from 1911-1925. The Memorandum was compiled largely by John Hewitt, one of Quarry Bank’s Mill Managers, and documents all the important events that happened at Quarry Bank.The Memorandum includes accidents, the two fatalities, the development of the buildings, deaths in the Greg family, the overlookers and managers, the introduction of new machinery to the Mill as well as records of the water wheels and steam engines. A lot of what we know about the Apprentice system at Quarry Bank comes from the Memorandum.READ MORE HERE
The sparse accommodation that existed when the Gregs built the mill was soon exhausted and Greg built plain cottages which were rented to his workers. Each house had a parlour, kitchen and two bedrooms (a two-up two-down), an outside privy and a small garden. Rent was deducted from the workers' wages.
The Gregs were involved in the triangular trade. Samuel Greg's brother-in-law, Thomas Hodgson, owned a slave ship, his father Thomas Greg and his brother John Greg part owned sugar plantations on the Caribbean island of Dominica. The best documented is Hillsborough Estate, Dominica which Samuel Greg and his brother Thomas inherited in 1795. In 1818 it had 71 male and 68 female slaves.
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Exploring Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire England - Old Time Fabric Mill!
While visiting a friend near Manchester, we went on a day trip to a nearby historic site near the town of Styal. The mill dates from for 1700's and produced thread and fabric until 1959. Today, it is a historic site and the machines are still run for demonstration purposes. An interesting day out for sure!!
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Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire England.
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England. Now a museum of the cotton industry and one of the best preserved textile mills.
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Quarry Bank Mill Cheshire - August 2017 - Styal Wilmslow
A short video clip showing Quarry Bank Mill & Estate. Gardens, buildings & machinery at the National Trust location in Styal, near Wilmslow in Cheshire. Short clip by Lee Oulton. Recorded on Monday 8th August 2017 .
Quick History:
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and inspired the 2013 television series The Mill.
Samuel Greg leased land at Quarrell Hole on Pownall Fee from Lord Stamford, who imposed a condition that 'none of the surrounding trees should be pruned, felled or lopped´; maintaining the woodland character of the area. The factory was built in 1784 by the Greg's to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico. The Greg's were careful and pragmatic, paternalistic mill owners, and the mill was expanded and changed throughout its history. When Greg's son, Robert Hyde Greg, took over the business, he introduced weaving. Samuel Greg died in 1834.
The Mill was attacked during the Plug Plot riots on 10 August 1842.
The mill's iron water wheel, the fourth to be installed, was designed by Thomas Hewes and built between 1816 and 1820. Overhead shafts above the machines were attached to the water wheel by a belt. When the wheel turned, the motion moved the belt and powered the machinery. A beam engine and a horizontal steam engine were subsequently installed to supplement the power. The Hewes wheel broke in 1904 but the River Bollin continued to power the mill through two water turbines. The mill owners bought a Boulton and Watt steam engine in 1810 and a few years later purchased another because the river's water level was low in summer and could interrupt production of cloth during some years. Steam engines could produce power all year round. Today the mill houses the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron wheel moved from Glasshouses Mill at Pateley Bridge designed by Sir William Fairbairn who had been Hewes' apprentice.
The estate surrounding the mill was developed and Greg converted farm buildings in Styal to house workers. As the mill increased in size, housing was constructed for the workers. A chapel and a school were built by the Gregs who moved into Quarry Bank House next to the mill.
The estate and mill were donated to the National Trust in 1939 by Alexander Carlton Greg and are open to the public. The mill continued in production until 1959. In 2006 the National Trust acquired Quarry Bank House and its gardens and, in 2010, the gardener's house and the upper gardens. In 2013 the mill received 130,000 visitors. In 2013, the trust launched an appeal to raise £1.4 million to restore a worker's cottage, a shop and the Greg's glasshouses and to digital-ise records relating to Gregs and the mill workers.
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire [4K60fps]
We take a short trip just south of Manchester Airport into the Cheshire village of Styal. It's home to the wonderful Quarry Bank Mill which is maintained by the National Trust. From the wonderful gardens to the historic mill this is well worth a trip.
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Quarry Bank Mill is on the outskirts of Styal in Cheshire. The mill is on the bank of the River Bollin which provided water to power the waterwheels. The factory was built in 1784 by Samuel Greg to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico.
Quarry Bank Mill employed child apprentices, a system that continued until 1847. The first children apprentices lived in lodgings in the neighbourhood then in 1790. Greg built the Apprentice House near the factory. Greg believed he could get the best out of his workers by treating them fairly. The apprentices were children from workhouses. Initially, they were brought from Hackney and Chelsea but by 1834 they came mostly from neighbouring parishes or Liverpool poorhouses. They worked long days with schoolwork and gardening after their shift at the mill. The work was sometimes dangerous, with fingers sometimes being severed by the machines. Children were willing to work in the mill because life at a workhouse was even worse.
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Quarry Bank Mill - The National Trust
Built in 1784, the Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved mills of the industrial revolution, an era which changed the face of Britain and the world. The Quarry Bank Mill, which is now a museum of the cotton industry, is considered one of the most important early textile manufacturing communities in England and, because of Britain’s pioneering role that it had in industrialization, it is considered one of the most important mills in the world.
Quarry Bank Mill: The Apprentice House
Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
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Quarry Bank Mill
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry.
English Language and Literature Field Trip, Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire
A group of MA English Language and Literature students visit Styal Mill in Cheshire, as part of the module: Local and Global English.
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Quarry Bank - Styal Mill, village & gardens. Aug 2017
A short video & photo slide show- Quarry Bank Mill & Estate. Gardens, buildings & machinery at the National Trust location in Styal, near Wilmslow in Cheshire. Short clip by Lee Oulton. Recorded on Monday 8th August 2017 .
Quick History:
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and inspired the 2013 television series The Mill.
Samuel Greg leased land at Quarrell Hole on Pownall Fee from Lord Stamford, who imposed a condition that 'none of the surrounding trees should be pruned, felled or lopped´; maintaining the woodland character of the area. The factory was built in 1784 by the Greg's to spin cotton. When Greg retired in 1832 it was the largest such business in the United Kingdom. The water-powered Georgian mill still produces cotton calico. The Greg's were careful and pragmatic, paternalistic mill owners, and the mill was expanded and changed throughout its history. When Greg's son, Robert Hyde Greg, took over the business, he introduced weaving. Samuel Greg died in 1834.
The Mill was attacked during the Plug Plot riots on 10 August 1842.
The mill's iron water wheel, the fourth to be installed, was designed by Thomas Hewes and built between 1816 and 1820. Overhead shafts above the machines were attached to the water wheel by a belt. When the wheel turned, the motion moved the belt and powered the machinery. A beam engine and a horizontal steam engine were subsequently installed to supplement the power. The Hewes wheel broke in 1904 but the River Bollin continued to power the mill through two water turbines. The mill owners bought a Boulton and Watt steam engine in 1810 and a few years later purchased another because the river's water level was low in summer and could interrupt production of cloth during some years. Steam engines could produce power all year round. Today the mill houses the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron wheel moved from Glasshouses Mill at Pateley Bridge designed by Sir William Fairbairn who had been Hewes' apprentice.
The estate surrounding the mill was developed and Greg converted farm buildings in Styal to house workers. As the mill increased in size, housing was constructed for the workers. A chapel and a school were built by the Gregs who moved into Quarry Bank House next to the mill.
The estate and mill were donated to the National Trust in 1939 by Alexander Carlton Greg and are open to the public. The mill continued in production until 1959. In 2006 the National Trust acquired Quarry Bank House and its gardens and, in 2010, the gardener's house and the upper gardens. In 2013 the mill received 130,000 visitors. In 2013, the trust launched an appeal to raise £1.4 million to restore a worker's cottage, a shop and the Greg's glasshouses and to digital-ise records relating to Gregs and the mill workers.
Quarry Bank Mill re-opens to the public
Quarry Bank Mill in Styal has re-opened following a 9-month project that has seen the historic cotton mill refurbished, with new galleries and exhibitions installed.
We spoke with the National Trust team at the site who've been behind the project.
National Trust Quarry Bank Mill Cheshire
Back in time to Quarry Bank Mill and all the machines inside.
A great day out for young and old.
Quarry Bank Mill
Professor Eann Patterson visits the Boulton & Watt steam engine at Quarry Bank Mill, one of Britain's greatest industrial heritage and National Trust sites. Filmed by eduCreate for the University of Liverpool's ''Energy: Thermodynamics in Everyday Life' course.
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The Apprentice House, Quarry Bank Mill, Styal 'Haunting'
I visited Quarry Bank Mill and the Apprentice House. This is the National Trust's 3rd most haunted property that they own! There is lots of activity in both the house and the Mill!