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Quarry Bank Mill was built at Styal in 1784 by Samuel Greg. The mill was, as were all the early cotton spinning mills, powered by water, hence its location on the river Bollin. The Greg family acquired a reputation as paternalistic employers, eventually developing housing for the operatives working in the mill. Working conditions were considered to be better than in most cotton mills, though the regime at Styal was not without its critics.

Samuel Greg had inherited a substantial and prosperous textile firm that had been built up by his uncles, Robert and Nathaniel Hyde, whose business interests included a sugar plantation in the West Indies. Blankets and clothes made at Quarry Bank Mill were sent to Dominica as clothing for enslaved Africans who worked on the sugar plantation Greg inherited from the Hydes.

Greg married Hannah Lightbody whose own family included at least one merchant involved in the African trade. Samuel Greg was not the only textile merchant-manufacturer with such connections to slavery in the closing decades of the 1700s. Indeed, given the superior qualities of West Indian cotton, many of the Lancashire cotton businesses established during these boom years relied, directly or indirectly, on supplies of cotton grown and picked on plantations using slave labour. Greg also employed pauper apprentices at Styal, a practice that was later to be condemned by factory reformers as a form of child slavery.

Taken in: UK / England / Alderley Edge / Wilmslow (show map)

Taken on: September 10, 2020

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