How Conditions in Styal Differ from Other Mills Quarry Bank Mill in Styal differed widely from other textiles mills in the area. Samuel Greg, the owner of Quarry Bank Mill, was a reasonable employer. He treated employees well in return for a hard days work. Robert Owen the owner of New Lanark Mill in Scotland was also a fair employer; the conditions were similar to Styal but slightly better. Owen felt strongly about cutting working hours down. Workers were fortunate
searched on horseback to find yet again a cheap, quick source of transportation and a place of allocating goods. Building materials needed to get to the locality for construction purposes. The quarry nearby was very useful for the building of the mill Styal and the Bollin seemed to have all the aspects and suitability’s of Greg’s requirements. Inexpensive land, a river nearby and in close proximity to Manchester, it was almost the ideal site. Manchester and Liverpool were to be the central foundation
Why Children from Workhouses Were Employed at Styal Mill Source A indicates that children appeared as the best and most suitable working force available for mill owners, such as Samuel Greg in the 1790's. According to Samuel Greg, child labour provided many significant advantages to the children, as well as Styal Mill itself. The source provides us with a list of factual reasons that help to explain why they favoured child labour. The attitude is explained using economic reason, as it was
The Conditions For Factory Workers In Nineteenth Century Britain In the nineteenth century some people thought that factories were the best thing that ever created in Great Britain, however, workers inside them thought differently. No group was as exploited as children, who were put to work before they could read or write.Children were employed in industry and agriculture as soon as they started using their hands and were able to walk. They worked in farms, mills, factories, coalmines
together and create a detailed account. However, there are still questions over the reliability of some of the sources, so further research and comparisons with other mills need to be made. Making comparisons will also indicate the typicality of Styal. Hopefully, by the end of this essay I will be able to prioritise the best way of finding out about the treatment of children in textile mills. The first source we examined was an eyewitness account of a visit to Quarry Bank Mill. This source
of experience in textile manufacturing, and a lucky boost of confidence due to finance, in 1783, Samuel Greg made several journeys into the countryside around Manchester searching for a suitable site where he might build a new mill. The site at Styal seemed ideal to accomplish its sole purpose; to make profit. The aim of this essay is to investigate all the factors Greg considered whilst selecting the site, in the hope that we can then find out why he chose to build the mill there, why he chose
Children's Working Conditions in Textile Mills In this essay, I am going to analyse the source material that I have been given. These sources describe the working conditions of children working in textile mills; I am going to conclude if they are reliable or unreliable. The conditions of children working in textile mills during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, were in some mills inhumane but in many mills such as Quarry Bank Mill indications are that the conditions
Rob Fraboni was born in california into an italian family. They had some already accomplished musicians in the family. So at the age of twelve he started to play drums in a local band. Then just three years later at the a of fifteen he hitchhiked to hollywood where he would begin his road to stardom. At this point in Rob's life he was young but already had a lot of experience in the recording studio with the local band he was in so he set out to fulfill his dream to work in the big studios with the
Working Conditions for Children in Textile Mills in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries In this essay I am going to write about and explain what working conditions were like for children working in textile mills in the late 18 and early 19 centuries. I will examine and discuss the working conditions at Quarry Bank Mill and compare them with the other sources. The sources are paragraphs containing information about other different mills around England. I will write about the context
to dry up in the summer climate. After days, even weeks of searching, he finally found the right place, just ten miles south of Manchester and two miles north-west of Wilmslow. The River Bollin cut through the sandstone alley close to the hamlet of styal. The founded river was fast and deep, and enough space beside it to build a mill. Samuel Greg rented the land with right to use the water from its owner, the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. In 1789 Greg went on to marry Hannah, Adam Lightbody a Unitarian