General Chat

New programme starting on channel 4 Sunday 8 pm.

Powerful historical drama series based on the lives of
real people. Telling the story of young 19th century
apprentices taking their lives into their own hands for
the first time.

Emma :-)

Don't know if anyone would be interested in this
programme, looks as though its going to be good.

Emma :-)

I am looking forward to it Emma. My kind of program :-)

And me Barbs.... :-)

Looking forward to this prog,

It is set in a Cheshire mill.

I believe it's based on fact and the out spoken young
girl worked there.

Emma

Im really looking forward to this programme to, may be one to record :-D :-D

Hope it's as good as it sounds! :-)

Well I am looking forward to it, I enjoy this type of drama.

However the decibels of the weaving looms will not be as loud as in reality and the weavers lip read. Thank goodness that we do not have 'smell' broadcast as the stench in a spinning room takes your breath away. Alongside of the spinning frames were troughs of water the length of the room.

It was hot, steamy and smelly how the spinners stuck it I do not know.
I expect they got used to the smell.

I've visited Quarry Bank Mill so will be interested to see the programme.
But I don't think those girls are as poor as they make out... look at the pictures --------- they could all afford tweezers and a mirror!!!!!!!

Nudge :-)

Emma

Not been to Quarry Bank but I have walked past Litton Mill in Miller's Dale, Derbyshire which worked on the same principle. Orphaned children brought from London to work in this mill, usually until they died, when they were buried in unmarked graves.
Litton Mill is yuppy apartments now. How anyone lives there I don't know, made my skin crawl just to be near the place - if anywhere is haunted, this must be it.

http://www.littonmill.iowners.net/i-95180.jpg

BarneyKent.
I wouldn't have thought you would be worried about haunted places...

What a dramatic start to the programme...

I enjoyed (if enjoyed is the right word) the start
to this programme.
I really must look into these mills as I know very
little about them.

Emma

I think it's going to be an excellent series, I really enjoyed it - seems very authentic. Life in these mills must have been very grim, especially for the young apprentices.

I loved it Emms and as you say it looks like its going to be one to keep watching.....

They were always dangerous places - a schoolfriend of mine lost her elder sister aged 14 - either on her first day at work or during her first week at work.

She was an apprentice weaver in the weaving shed this was in 1950/51. Her parents made sure their only daughter left went to Commercial College and not to the mill.

Shouldnt it be called T'mill :-D

Such frightening times, poor children.