The Site for Quarry Bank Mill and Why It Was Chosen
Samuel Greg, the son of Thomas Greg and Elizabeth Hyde, was born in
Belfast in 1758. Samuel's father was a successful merchant and ship
owner. His mother's family were also wealthy and into business. Her
brother, Robert Hyde, was a merchant based in Manchester. He imported
linen thread from Ireland and used weavers in Lancashire to turn it
into cloth. Samuel Greg joined Robert Hyde's company in Manchester
being orphaned. In 1780, Greg became a junior partner in his uncle's
company. Hyde had left nearly £30,000 for Greg following his death at
the time he was just 22.
Influenced by Hyde, Greg set out to develop and erect a textile mill
of his own. Evidently Samuel Greg had a number of issues which he had
to tackle to get the most consistent and financially viable site. His
first and foremost point of consideration was to find a location,
which had to have an economical, reliable power source. A river nearby
was a priority to Greg’s hunt, 18th century only saw power as resource
of energy. Being near Manchester was another constraint put down by
Greg. Having all of the key elements for the mill; money, power
(though employment was later undertaken) was. Using Burdett’s map,
Greg 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 of Samuel
Greg’s point of distribution and importation. He could transport his
finished products to Manchester where they would be distributed.
Though the land inside Manchester was already occupied, land outside
was still obtainable at a fraction of the price.
A multitude of mills going up created back water which hindered the mill’s wheels from turning more freely, but with more competitors came more jobs to the area. In addition to more work came the need for more workers. Francis Lowell of Massachusetts decided to make a wholesome atmosphere to attract young country women to his mill to work. He offered wholesome living with room and board, decent pay, strict rules, and curfews to enforce the safety of the girls that worked for him. These workers came to be known as the “Lowell girls”.
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Rolfe desired skillful men, even though he mostly had men that were peasants who were seeking wealth and fortune. Tobacco and Corn are the two main industries that Rolfe’s colony worked with and on (Document 2). While the French and Rolfe were searching to work with people who specialized in trades and carpenters, the English already had this set up. Wealth and trade were things that everyone focused on to motivate them for the colonization of Britain, each colony had their own ways of working with trade and building up their wealth.
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One of the many immigrants was Scottishman, Andrew Carnegie. One of Andrew Carnegie’s big accomplishments was when he built one of the largest still mills in Braddock, Pennsylvania. Within Andrew Carnegie explains in his book, Gospel of Wealth mentions, “Neither nor master nor servant was as well situated then as to-day. A relapse to old conditions would disastrous to both-not the least so to him who serves-and would sweep away civilization with it.” Describing the unfair relationship within the factories between the “master and his apprentices”, the apprentices were not treated equal with one another.
Lowell mills were located in Lowell, Massachusetts and specialized in manufacturing cotton cloth. The strong currents from the surrounding streams of water powered the mills machinery. More often then not, a mill was a community's largest employer and mill owners frequently had other business investment in the neighborhood such as general stores, real estate, and residential properties (Inventing America p.391).
Skara Brae is a Neolithic (stone age) village located on the Orkney Islands, found north of Scotland (see image 1). Using radiocarbon dating, it has been discovered that Skara Brae was one of the earliest farming villages in Britain having been inhabited over 5000 years ago. It was due to isolation and minimal changes to the landscape that a village that was created between 3100 and 2500 BC is one of the best preserved villages in northern Europe today.
I believe that old English textile mills were a hazardous environment for children and anyone who worked in them but especially to the children who worked there. If I were a parent I would not have let my child work in one of these mills. My first piece of evidence would be that in these four documents A and C and in document B and D said that the masters of these mills were abusive and beat the children until they bled or broke bones. The children were in the most trouble because they had to work with machines that were two maybe even three times their size and they could have even lost limbs.
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Owen now found himself in what would soon become the capital city of the English Industrial Revolution on the eve of that event as factories were built and textile manufacture expanded.. He was a serious, methodical young man who already possessed an extensive knowledge of the retail aspect of his chosen trade. In late 1790 he borrowed £100 from his brother William and set up independently with a mechanic named Jones as a manufacturer of the new spinning mules. After a few months he parted with Jones and started business on his own with three mules as a cotton spinner. During 1792, Owen applied for and was appointed manager of Peter Drinkwater's new spinning factory, the Piccadilly Mill, where he quickly achieved the reputation as a spinner of fine yarns, thanks to the application of steam power to the mule. One of Drinkwater's most important clients was Samuel Oldknow, maker of fine muslins. Drinkwater had intended Owen to become a partner in his new business by 1795, but a projected marriage alliance between Drinkwater's daughter and Oldknow caused the cancellation of the agreement with Owen. Hurt and unwilling to remain a mere manager, Owen left Piccadilly Mill in 1795.
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