Well the concert last night was unbelievable. 33 voices with amazing volume and range. There was also a fantastic baritone soloist. The concert was the best we’ve seen (we’ve seen 2 others over the last 4 years). Fell for the “we have CDs for sale at the back of the church”.
After visiting the local library to rip the CD so we can listen to it in the car, and after Gill’s nails appointment, we left in the direction of Manchester. We went to Quarry Bank (thanks Marilyn), a cotton mill built in 1784 with Europe’s most powerful working waterwheel. See this link.The mill is one of the best preserved mills of the industrial revolution, is now a museum of the cotton industry and considered one of the most important early textile manufacturing communities in England and, because of Britain’s pioneering role that it had in industrialisation, it is considered one of the most important mills in the world. There is so much to see there. One of the guides took us on a tour of the “Apprentice House”, where children, who worked in the mill, lived. Most of the child workers were taken from workhouses.
It was an amazing place, to see all the old machinery, the apprentice house and the gardens around. I (John) also particularly liked that there were people actually operating the machines.
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