Initially the mills were powered by water from the river Irwell, and a and canal were constructed to carry water to them. Later on, as technology advanced, the mills converted to steam power. Alongside the mills, a canal feeder was created in 1803 to supply water to the header reservoir at Elton and connect to the Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal.

Joseph's son, Leo L. Pickart, was managing the business at that time. The railroad track behind the business brought needed supplies, and a burr mill provided a feed-grinding service for area...

Researching the history of mills. Water cornmills tend to remain on the same site, however often rebuilt. So a mill that now looks 18th or 19th-century could be concealing a much longer history. The Domesday Book lists around 6,000 mills in England in 1086. Many of these mills continue to be mentioned in documents in succeeding centuries and eventually appear …

Burrs Mill, POW Camp, Bury. Burrs Mill, Bury was associated with the Peel family and built in the 1790's. It later became a bleach works in the 1880's. When the Second World War came and places were needed to keep POWs and internees - it seemed an odd choice - but I guess it had space! Not being purpose built, and considering its setting (by ...

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Social constructionist research focuses on how knowledge develops as a social construction (Savin-Baden & Major, 2013). Prior to beginning this course, I was unfamiliar with many of the theories that underpin qualitative research. I have had a lot of exposure to constructivism, but, other than that, most of these theories were new to me.

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The History of Lincolnton. Lincolnton was established as the county seat of Lincoln County in 1785. It was laid out with a central courthouse surrounded by a grid plan of streets, blocks, and lots with four primary streets—East Main, West Main, North Aspen, and South Aspen—leading from the court-house and dividing the town into quadrants.

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A man who used the knowledge he had aquirred before leaving England to build a spinning mill in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for Quaker merchant Moses Brown in 1790. Eli Whitney Invented a machine that preformed the arduous task of removing …

Laura Ingalls Wilder 's novel The Long Winter describes a family grinding wheat in a coffee mill to make flour during months of hardship. The first coffee grinder was made by Richard Dearmann, an English blacksmith from Birmingham, in 1799.

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In 1792 all this began to change when the entrepreneur Sir Robert Peel, father of the politician and later Prime Minister of the same name, together with his business partners, Howarth and Yates built a water powered spinning mill at Burrs. At the same time Richard Calrow built another cotton processing mill at Higher Woodhill.

In 1867 Rice Brothers-Dennis, Frank and Gilbert from Riceville, constructed a flour and sawmill on the Cedar River in section 35. The building was thirty by forty feet in size and three stories high. The flour mill had two runs of stones at first, but later was enlarged to …

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Burr's late grandfather John Burr was a furniture maker who constructed the ... the first thing they did ... Weston's former first selectman, bought the Cobb's Mill Inn …

Our first stop is seeing the one-room William K. Haines schoolhouse. This lovely structure constructed in 1860. It was a private school run by the man mentioned above. The schoolhouse once sat on the Allen's Oil property on Main Street and moved to its current home in the early 1980's. It was dedicated to all the children of Southampton ...

Mills brought Reid with him when he moved to Washington in the late 1840s when Mills won the competition for an equestrian statue of Andrew Jackson commissioned for Lafayette Park. In order to construct the Jackson statue, a temporary foundry was erected south of the White House and, through trial and error, Mills, Reid and other workmen produced the first bronze statue …

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The first death was that of a child of Richard Pritchard, 1863, who was buried at Burr Oak. The next was a child of John De Ford in 1865. The first birth in the township was Henry R. Jehial George, born October 4, 1857. The first postoffice was established in section 15, and called Nelson. G. N. Holbrook was the earliest postmaster.

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In 1808, the mill was sold to Richard Calrow. He had constructed the neighbouring Higher Woodhill Mill at the same time that Burrs was first built. Under his stewardship, Burrs was expanded and converted to steam power. Within ten years, Richard's sons had taken over the running of the two mills, along with Hinds Mill at Elton.