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From: "Rossbret" <>
Subject: [UK-W&H] Styal Homes
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:25:52 +0100

Hi,
In 1895 the Chorlton Union purchased a 190 acre estate in Styal, Cheshire.
Here they built cottage homes for children in care.

There were about 27 cottages including a couple of nurseries each housing
between 13 and 28 children. The estate also included a senior school for
more than 350 children, workshops, a laundry, a 16 bed hospital, a church, a
swimming baths and the remaining 140 acres was farmed.

The children did not wear uniforms and therefore could mix with other
village children without being noticed. That covers the period up to about
1908.Styal Cottage Homes continued to operate until the 60's, after this it
was used to house women prisoners.

Quarry Bank Mill
This area includes the Childrens' homes at Styal, part of the Chorlton Union
and the first "real"mill in the North West of England owned by the GREGG
family many years earlier.

A change in the management at Quarry Bank Mill has brought together one of
the most complete historical industrial landscapes in the world for the
first time in nearly 25 years.Management of Quarry Bank Mill has been passed
from an independent charitable Trust to the National Trust, which means that
the Mill and the surrounding Styal Estate are now together as a single unit.

Link to Quarry Bank Mill, Styal
http://www.quarrybankmill.org.uk/

All the best, Jan
www.workhouses.co.uk

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