Styal Mill Qu 3 ( local History)
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Styal Mill Question 3 'The Gregs had a genuine concern for the welfare of their apprentices' Do the Visual, documentary and oral views support this? (12) There is evidence to show that the Gregs cared about the apprentices at Styal Mill. We are able to make this statement we know (do to documented evidence) that the punishments, working conditions among other things reflect this statement, however we can't be entirely sure how genuine their concern was because doing such things would also benefit the Gregs. In the sense that if their apprentices were healthy, well fed and not injured from punishments they would work harder thus making the Gregs more money. The working conditions of the apprentices were good in the sense that they were not punished physically, like children in other city mills were, some punishments in the city mills consisted of being beaten. There is documented evidence at the Mill that states...

