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4 unusual facts about Quarry Bank Mill


James Hawes

Hawes directed The Mill, a mini series for Channel Four TV about the people and politics of Quarry Bank Mill, an 19th-century cotton mill.

Quarry Bank Mill

Samuel Greg's brother-in-law, Thomas Hodgson, owned a slave ship, his father Thomas Greg and his brother John Greg part owned sugar plantations in the Caribbean on the island of Dominica.

Today the mill houses the most powerful working waterwheel in Europe, an iron wheel moved from Glasshouses Mill at Pateley Bridge designed by Sir William Fairbairn who had been Hewes' apprentice.

Styal railway station

The station is on Station Road 110 m from the edge of the National Trust Quarry Bank Mill/Styal Estate and 600 m from Styal Women's Prison and Young Offenders Institute.



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