Quarry Bank Mill
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Quarry Bank Mill in Styal, Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile factories of the Industrial Revolution. Built in 1784, the cotton mill is recorded in the National Heritage List for
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Part of the Oak Cottages at Styal
Workers' cottages at Styal Estate
The Apprentice House where up to 90 children lived
1842 general strike
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The 1842 general strike in the United Kingdom, also known as the Plug Plot Riots, was a general strike that lasted from July to September 1842. The strike started among the miners in Staffordshire, En
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…thirty-two feet in diameter, and twenty-four feet broad, equivalent in power to one hundred and twenty horses" 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…
Statue commemorating the Plug Plot Riots outside the Corn Exchange in Preston