Quarry Bank Mill and Apprentice House
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Address – Styal
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 4LA.
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| Phone | 01625 527468 |
| Opening times |
Mill - daily April to September. 11:00am till 6pm, Tues-Sun, (October to March) 11:00am till 5:00pm.
Apprentice House - same the mill during school holidays. Otherwise Tues-Fri 2:00pm until mill closing time. Weekend opening the same as the mill. Times may change - please check before setting out. |
| Collection/special features | working water mill and organic vegetable garden |
| Dog friendly? | Dogs on a lead in the Mill grounds |
| Child friendly? | A fascinating tour for older children, who may learn something of what life was like for ‘young people’ in a less enlightened age |
| Description |
The Apprentice House was home to about sixty boys and girls who arrived there from parents who could not afford to keep them. The children lived very basically by today's standards – a doctor and school were provided but only to deliver trained and cheap mill-workers to local mills. The adjoining garden contains traditional varieties of vegetables, fruit and herbs, as well as geese and hens – it is gardened on the earliest organic lines, growing nothing later than could be found in seed catalogues dating back to 1900, and using a four year rotation system. The children of Apprentice House undoubtedly had to weed and water the gardens, as well as learning in the school. |
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Apprentice House photograph by SpindlierHades used under a creative commons licence
