❤I love pens so I love this

I was born in 1963 and have a memory of getting a vaccination and the sugar lump afterwards that had the polio medicine in it! The sugar cube was a treat and to this day if I’m in a cafe and they have sugar cubes I have to have one! 😂

Beautiful place! Loved the gallery. The ceiling was gorgeous! Thank you for the tour! What a great choice! Hugs, Sherry ❤❤

Hi Lucy! Thank you for another great video! I wish we could have seen a worker’s cottage. I like your commentary, so informative! Always enjoy seeing you! Hugs, Sherry ❤❤

Have sent this to my friend who tutors textile students! Important to know

Thank you Lucy .. loved this video looking forward to your next one 😊

Hi Lucy. Suzanne from Oregon. Loved this video. My mother’s father lost his arm in a woolen mill here in Oregon. He had an eating utensil that was a sort of ‘rocking’ knife and fork together. A couple books on the Oregon trail: Surviving the Oregon Trail by Weldon Willis Rau Women’s Diaries of the Westward Journey by Lillian Schlissel Covered Wagon Women Edited by Kenneth L Holmes. I’m not sure if they are on Amazon or not. I usually pick them up at local museums. Bless you!

I've visited Quarry Bank and it's in such a lovely location that it's easy to forget how savage the work and conditions were for those unfortunate enough to have no other choice.

Hi Lucy thank you for this vlog,it was lovely to watch,I was born in 1957 so I am 68 so I can remember mum going to the co-op and sending me after school for dads chopped ham and pork for his sandwich’s next day ,great memories going to different shops ,butcher ,greengrocer,bakery,fish shop,my favourite was watching them cut the bacon on the machine nothing was pre packed back then everything so fresh,xxx

Really interesting. I was particularly moved by the stuff about children, as my great great gran was born and raised at Marylebone workhouse (and went from there into service).

Really interesting. I was particularly moved by the stuff about children, as my great great gran was born and raised at Marylebone workhouse (and went from there into service).

Not being rude but blists hill not near ironbridge . All buildings bar the blast furnice have been moved from.otger parts in telford .i live 5 min away from this . Black country museum.is way better than blists hill

My grandma always said she couldn't wait to be 11 then she was allowed to work at the mill part time and only had to go to school part time. This would have been around 1910. I always wondered just how awful school must have been

I find your content so interesting and informative. Thank you for creating it for us. Greetings from New Jersey, USA!

Well worth a visit.

Doing my family tree I saw that my gg grandma worked in a mill close to where I lived, this mill was meadow mill, her daughter followed her in working there she was 12 years old, they lived in terraced houses close to the mill

Back in the 80s i was a supervisor in a wool spinning mill in NZ, very little had changed since it was built 100 years previously, much of the machinery had been updated but the processes were unchanged. It could still be quite a dangerous place to work and the noise and heat took some getting used to. I started my week by starting the huge boiler that pumped heat and humidity into the mill, it took about 3 hours to get steam up ready for the nightshift starting at 7 pm, but that first shift was always problematic for running the yarn as it would take most of the night for heat and humidity to build up enough for the yarn to run correctly. I have vivid memories of cutting a women out of a twisting frame, her hair got caught in a shaft but i managed to hit the emergency stop before she got scalped. I had to use a razor blade right up to her scalp to cut her hair off and free her, it's a memory that will never leave me, but thankfully accidents were rare due to the many safety regs in place. The mill closed in the 90s and was torn down, it just couldn't compete with the Chinese mills. I loved working there, it was a constant race against the machines and the 12 hour shifts never seemed to drag, we all worked as teams to get machines doffed (unloaded) and running again as quickly as possible. Thank you for this, i now live in the UK and will make a point of visiting this mill.

Oh I'm so glad you went to Cheshire's Quarry Bank Mill, it's so well preserved and touches on so many topics. The local mill workers cottages, schoolroom and countryside are interesting too. Grest video!

I was born in 1965, my sister in 1967. I remember the sound and smell of the clinic.

Such a wonderful video, Lucy. If you ever fancy coming up to North Yorkshire, we have so much to offer. Ripon has three museums. The Workhouse Museum, the Police Museum & the Courthouse Museum... all within walking distance of each other & a ticket can be purchased to cover all three. You're near York then, with its huge amount of fascinating history. Eden Camp in Malton, is well worth visiting too. It's very large & mainly focuses of WW2, but there's also a WW1 & post-WW2 section. The list goes on... Liverpool has a social history tour ( quite lengthy too). It's a marvelous city with fascinating social history. Have fun 😁

As a toddler I only had one pair of shoes. No such thing as trainers! My mum always got them fitted, so got the wear out of them! Used to have black plimsoles for school though! I also remember sitting in my pushchair and going to the village Co-op. I remember the counter was wooden and getting frustrated at mum nattering! Living on my own I buy a fresh white loaf, cut it and keep in the freezer so its fresh every time!

the only trouble at the mill is theyve turned to bloody plastics and these fibres do not conduct electricity like natural fabrics and thus acting as chokes for our body's own electrodynamics. it might be in the order of millivolts but its what makes you function. get back to natural fibres and to leave the synthetics to that which is not worn on ones' person.

The chimney was interesting and I could imagine the hard working people coming in every day.

Thank you, Lucy, for taking me along on our latest fantastic journey together!! And All Hail, the late Fred Dibnah!! Love his programs and his explaining of how things were crafted/built (and often by whom). Makes me mad when the craftsmen of yesteryear are not credited for their skills and work. I often find myself shouting at the TV when watching some presenter saying “This Grand House was built by Lord So-and-So, yada yada yada ….” And I yell “No it bloody wasn’t!! He only procured the money for it from his slave trading!!!” Gets my goat, it does. 😊 When I was last in England (and I mean Last ☹ can’t see me getting there again in this Lifetime!), we went to the Queen St Mill Textile Museum, just outside Burnley. Featured in “North and South” and other films. Said to be the last surviving 19th century steam powered weaving mill in the world. The big “tandem compound” steam engine (named PEACE) was beautiful, but the noise from the 308 looms when they turned them all on for us was absolutely deafening. Never mind when they were populated with workers!!! However, there were apparently far more working looms ”back in the day” Crikey! 😱 My Father's people were from the Crawshawbooth area, but I've not heard of any being mill workers .......... Cheers, RjB (Oswald's Ricki) Down Under

It's funny to me to think of beaches having fun parks and arcades on them. All the beaches I've seen are just... a beach. With the sea and sand or rocks. Either empty of people, like the Oregon Coast in spring, with freezing cold water, or crowded with people like in Florida. How is the water in Yarmouth? Do people swim?

I so appreciate the research and effort you put into the story telling that brings these historic places to life! Maybe someday I could visit and join in on a tour with you! Or even visit a place that we have 'visited' together!

What an interesting but sad video. It's hard to believe that people could be so cruel to children just because of greed. Looking forward to the next video.

wonderful, really enjoyed it! I had no idea that Esther Price was a real person in the show.

From Florida USA My favorite would be the widows old age mining house

I stumbled upon this page, and you are absolutely delightful! I can’t wait to watch your other videos 🩷🩷 -- and yes, please continue to encourage people to subscribe! because sometimes I think they just don’t think about it when they’re watching a video 😊

You do such a good job with these videos. Giving great knowledge and respect.

I just cannot believe there is a place where nobody would steal those antique signs on the fence.

Hi Lucy . Firstly I absolutely love your social history videos . I have a fascination with the social history of our lovely country . Have you ever thought about doing any videos in the Whitechapel / Spitalfields area of East London , I am absolutely fascinated by this area , there are still lovely houses from the time of the silk weavers and lots of other people that came to east London . I can spend a whole evening watching and finding out about those areas . I’d love to see you do a video from that area . Also I’d love to study social history of this country , do you have any info for which courses are best to do. Keep up your Fab videos. Many thanks from a massive fan

Great video Lucy, as always thank you for sharing.

Apparently there are some ghosts in the mill and apprentices accommodation!

Hi Lucy, you might be interested to know that Ladybird Books (like those in the Post Office) where produced not far away from you in Loughborough in Leicestershire, East Midlands.

This was so enjoyable Lucy, thank you for taking the time. Whatever you post it will be so interesting to me. You must put you first. ❤

Thoroughly enjoyed that.... Thank you.

What an interesting place, but it was a terrible place too. Thank you Lucy for telling us about it 👍 I have to admire the engineering in those mill machines though, it would also be interesting to know where they were made and what those working conditions were like.

Hello Lucy. To my knowledge no ancestors of mine worked in the mills, but a study of family history does reveal that a great, great aunt of mine by the name of Jane Elizabeth Boneham found herself destitute, living and passing away in the Workhouse. The same Workhouse that is now owned and run by the N.T in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. We don't know how she came to end her days there, but I intend to visit this year. It could be emotional for me to know that a family member of mine from days long ago passed away there. Her grave has never been located. On a lighter note, I'd also like to visit Saltaire, another workers village from long ago. Fascinating places. Thank you Lucy. Dave and Sophie xxxxx

This made me so upset to see the appalling conditions that people and small children had to endure. Thank you Lucy.

I really enjoyed this what an amazing place,I watched the mill only just a month ago and loved it thank you so much lucy

Another excellent video, thank you Lucy x

I'm so happy to find your account! I absolutely love social history and am very lucky to live about 30 minutes away from Quarry Bank so I've been many times. You can have a tour of one of the houses (or you could last time we went last year) but you have to book a slot on arrival. A lady lived there for many years without doing the place up so lots of original features remain and you get to see the cellar where a family would have lived. Sorry that your camera was playing up but still a brilliant, interesting video.

So pleased you visited this mill. I visited the mill and worker village way back when I was a kid on a school trip ( I’m mid 50s now ). Is there still a school set up and (not sure if at the same place ), a doctors or something to do with medical science. After all this time I still have the guide book, writing slate and a sample of the cotton in woolly form. Thank you for bringing back a great memory, and hope you’ll be able to revisit and make the lives of the workers video 🧵

Top vid Lucy love your story telling skills

thanks for helping me to unwind after a days work, 15 minutes well spent with a nice cuppa. It's important to remember the conditions workers and campaigners had to fight hard to improve on.

Excellent investigation, Lucy. Thank you ❤

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