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
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
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
Working Conditions of Children in Textile Mills After thorough investigation into 5 sources referring to the working conditions for children in factories during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, we now have the opportunity to bind all the facts 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
Why the Site for Quarry Bank Mill was Chosen by Samuel Greg After years 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
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 in the mill were good. Source
and utilised their resources well. A good example of one of these factories would be Quarry Bank Mill. Quarry Bank Mill massively benefited from the growing population through these years, meaning
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 and on the streets. They sacrificed having an education for working long hours for little money, working in unacceptable conditions for employers who had no interest in safety. Children were put to work because in cities
realized that a change had to be made from agriculture to industry if they were to prosper and for them to use free labor to accomplish prosperity would be to take a step backwards. This ushered in an small and early Industrial Revolution. Factories and mills that produced finished goods sprung up all over the Northern United States along major waterways. These factories produced fabric, iron, machinery, weapons. Raw materials such as cotton was bought from the South and then sold back to them in the form
Today, cotton is a multibillion dollar industry. Cotton has been, and still is, a major commodity throughout the world for the past hundreds of years. In the early eighteenth century, cotton revolutionized production and trade throughout the world. According to Sven Beckert, cotton began with being “grown in small batches and worked up by hearth” to an empire that “ruled over factories in which tens of thousands of workers operated huge spinning machines and noisy power looms”. As the cotton industry
The First Inhabitants of the Great Lakes Region in North America As archeological discoveries of bone fragments and fossils continue to support the existence of homo-sapiens in North America prior to the arrival of Indo-European explorers in the 15th century, this paper will attempt to explain chronologically, which Native American inhabitants lived or migrated throughout what is known today as the Great Lakes Region. This region includes lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Ontario, & Erie as