PART 1 - Quarry Bank Mill & Styal Estate, Cheshire, England

13th September 2008

On the 13th of this month it was Heritage OPEN DAYS which means anybody could get in most of the Heritage sites all over England for FREE, so Ken and I chose Quarry Bank Mill. We had been wanting to go there for a while.

Quarry Bank Mill is a very old cotton mill that was in its heyday during the industrial revolution in the Manchester area. It has been turned into a museum and it's really interesting because they show you all the steps to making cotton cloth, from the cotton bail on thru the process. We thoroughly enjoyed it!

We also walked around the beautiful grounds and to the Apprentice House where they took children out of the workhouses and trained them to work in the mill. Actually the owner of this mill was a lot more humane, as he didn't work children under 9 years old. Many mills worked them as young as 7, if ya can believe it!

We had a nice lunch in the little restaurant there on the grounds in part of the mill and walked around some more in the garden area.

There are still standing and being lived in - the cottages that this mill owner built for his employees there in the tiny village of Styal way back in the late 1700's. We wanted to go see them but ended up going on back home, BUT.....the PART 2 album is us back the next weekend to visit the Styal Estate cottages.

You will have a bit more time to read my descriptions under each photo if you click Next each time instead of doing the slideshow.

OH! and also meant to tell you, when you click Next and a pic comes up, if you click on it then, you will get the original size if you want a better look. They aren't huge.

Hope you enjoy all the photos.
~ Janie & Ken

THIS SHOWS THE ENTIRE ESTATE	WALKING DOWN THE HILL TO THE MILL FROM THE CAR PARK	AT THE MILL
QUARRY BANK MILL	QUARRY BANK MILL	SUCH A FAT PIGEON!!	WALKING UP THE HILL FROM THE MILL TO THE APPRENTICE HOUSE
WALKING TO THE APPRENTICE HOUSE - THEY GREW THEIR OWN FOODS, ETC.
		APPRENTICE HOUSE & GARDEN
APPRENTICE HOUSE - WE GOT TO TOUR INSIDE AND IT WAS VERY INTERESTING! THEY KEPT AS MANY AS 90 CHILDREN AT A TIME!	A VIEW I LIKED NEAR THE APPRENTICE HOUSE	JANIE	BEHIND THE APPRENTICE HOUSE
JANIE TRYING TO PUMP WATER		SLEEPING HEN
STRUTTIN HEN	CHICKEN COOPS BEHIND APPRENTICE HOUSE	JANIE AT THE APPRENTICE HOUSE GARDEN	LAUGHING AT KEN!
LOVE THE BIG OLD OLD TREES!	KEN ABOUT TO EAT HIS SHORTBREAD WITH HIS CUPPA TEA! YUM!	EATING MY SANDWICH AND THEN MY CAKE! SUCH A SWEET TOOTH WE BOTH HAVE!!!	QUARRY BANK MILL
ENJOYING THE RIVER BOLLIN NEAR THE MILL	KEN & JANIE	JANIE & KEN WITH OLD MILL BEHIND US	STANDING BY QUARRY BANK MILL & THE RIVER BOLLIN
THE ORIGINAL MILL OWNER'S HOME AND THE MILL NEARBY	WALKING IN THE GARDEN	IN THE GARDEN AREA
VERY BIG OLD BEECH TREE IN THE GARDENS	VIEW OF THE RIVER BOLLIN	HERE COMES KEN! LOL	THE MONKS (THE ONE ON THE RIGHT IS A WOMAN) - I HAD NEVER SEEN ANY REAL MONKS BEFORE! LOL
THE GARDENS	COMING BACK ACROSS THE RIVER BOLLIN FROM THE GARDENS