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Quarry Bank Mill in Cheshire, England, is one of the best preserved textile mills of the Industrial Revolution and is now a museum of the cotton industry.
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Located within the district are the port of Big Creek ( the main port of Belize's banana industry ), the peninsula and village of Placencia ( a popular tourist resort ), the villages of Alta Vista, Commerce Bight, Dancing Pool, Georgetown, Guana Church Bank, High Sand, Independence and Mango Creek, Kendal, Lagarto Bank, Maya Mopan, Middle Bank, Middlesex, Mullins River, New Home, Pomona, Quarry Hill, Rancho Grande, Red Bank, Regalia, Sarawee, Silver Creek Camp, Silk Grass, San Roman, Sittee and the Garifuna village of Hopkins on the Sittee River.
Local secondary school, Thorns School and Community College in neighbouring Quarry Bank have renamed their drama theatre in his honour, renaming it the Hardwicke Theatre.
Nimmo was born in Liverpool and was educated at Quarry Bank High School and began his stage career at the Hippodrome Theatre in Bolton, Lancashire.
Born in Manchester, the son of Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to Robert Hyde Greg and the junior Samuel Greg.
William Thomas Rodgers, Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, PC ( born Liverpool 28 October 1928 ), usually known as William Rodgers but also often known as Bill Rodgers, was one of the " Gang of Four " of senior British Labour Party politicians who defected to form the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ).
He remained outside Parliament, unsuccessfully contesting Milton Keynes for the SDP in the 1987 general election, until he received a life peerage as Baron Rodgers of Quarry Bank, of Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden in 1992.
Born in Manchester, the son of Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and the junior Samuel Greg.
Prior to the reorganisation of secondary education in Liverpool in the 1980s, Aigburth was also home to Aigburth Vale Comprehensive School for Girls, formerly Aigburth Vale High School for Girls, which was merged with Quarry Bank School to form Calderstones School.
Robert Hyde Greg and John Greg, sons of Samuel Greg of Quarry Bank Mill, who owned about a third of Reddish by 1857, opened Albert Mills for cotton spinning in 1845.
Goldsmith was born in Liverpool and is of Jewish descent, he was educated at Quarry Bank School ( now Calderstones School ) before reading law at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and University College London.
Quarry and Mill
The road crosses a stream, Mill Brook, into Hamburg, where County Route 517 splits from Route 23 by heading east on Quarry Road.
The Old Smock Mill stood near to the Parish Quarry was built around 1800, at a cost of £ 800, and stood for over a century before being demolished.
Quarry Bank Mill is notable for its use of unpaid child apprentices, a system that continued until 1847, with the last child to be indentured starting work in 1841.
File: A_working_Mule_spinning_machine_at_Quarry_Bank_Mill. theora. ogv | A movie of the working Mule spinning machine at Quarry Bank Mill.
It flows through the Styal country park and was used in the cotton calico factory there, Quarry Bank Mill, as a source of power.
Mangle on display at the Apprentice House at the Quarry Bank Mill in the UK. When home washing machines were first invented, they were just for washing: a tub on legs or wheels.
In 1798 he went into partnership with Samuel Greg, installing an innovative water wheel at Greg's Quarry Bank Mill on the River Bollin in Cheshire.
Samuel Greg ( March 26, 1758 – June 4, 1834 ) was a British entrepreneur and pioneer of the factory system at Quarry Bank Mill.
Greg was a merchant and lacked technical expertise and employed Matthew Fawkner, to run Quarry Bank Mill when it opened in 1784.
Born in Manchester, the son of the elder Samuel Greg, the creator of Quarry Bank Mill, he was brother to William Rathbone Greg and Robert Hyde Greg.
( 1986 ) The Gregs of Quarry Bank Mill: The Rise and Decline of the Family Firm, 1750 – 1914 ISBN 0-521-32382-7
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Seeing the opportunities for manufacturing opened up by the Industrial Revolution, he founded the Quarry Bank cotton spinning mill at the village of Styal on the River Bollin in Cheshire.
* nine arts-and-crafts-style houses in Westmill, near Buntingford, Hertfordshire, bequeathed by Mrs Mary Hope Greg ( 1850 – 1949 ), whose husband ’ s family owned Quarry Bank Mill at Styal, in Cheshire.
Rathbone was the eldest son of William Rathbone of Greenbank, Liverpool and his wife Elizabeth Greg daughter of Samuel Greg of Quarry Bank, Cheshire.
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