The first mill is somewhat special because our Family came from the nearby area a few centuries ago. They could have eaten bread from flour milled at that mill or milled in an earlier mill nearby.
I miss Mick 😥 Archeology is so interesting and important but the way you do it is spectacular, very well done and organized program. I'm just sorry it ends so quickly. I was glued to RU-vid for 50 minutes without losing a minute.
"It was knocked down in the 1960's" how many times have I heard that, it was a decade of "knocking down" in the name of progress mostly, but it was a decade of loss where many ancient buildings were bulldozed to make way for developments and roads amongst other things. Now it is too late we regret this destruction, it is very very sad.
An amazing quote in this episode.... "over a period of a thousand years the life of a mill can change enormously?". Coming from the States (USA) a thousand years of contiguous operation is amazing!!! Love this show and history of my forefathers!!!
Mick to Tony "Or posh restaurants. The sort of place you go to" haha Totally compelling and fascinating, especially the first and third segments, where we could see them building up the mechanism piece by piece. Although I loved the Manchester site, I found the combined steam engine/ water wheel mechanism much harder to understand: Time for a Wikipedia dive!
It was difficult to understand because the video showed a rotative steam engine - this was not how the system worked. It was really a conventional water-powered mill and, because it was located away from a suitable water source the innovation of steam power was used to pump water not to turn the wheel. There were two reservoirs at different levels; the high level supplied the water to turn the wheel the water then passed into the lower reservoir from whence it was returned to the high level to pass over the wheel again 'ad infinitum', so long as the stem pump kept working. It has been vaunted as the first steam powered mill, but steam was not used directly. The dialog must have confused others but the fact remains that Boulton and Watt did not have a rotative engine (at the time) to offer prospective clients so the presenters should not have introduced that element into the discussion.
In Australia, sheets, tablecloths and napkins etc are still called. collectively, "Manchester". Department stores have a Manchester department. I suppose because that was the name on the crates of cloth arriving.
There’s a water mill a couple of miles away that was at one time owned by a radio ham who was the first person in Britain to hear of the Titanic sinking,he heard the distress call but was not believed ,Arthur Moore was his name.
We are trying to get in touch with any member of Time team to report the character.. Craig Denny AKA West country clegg. he is putting up images of sensitive archeological sites in the UK this person is very likely revealing sensitive sites to "NIGHT HAWKERS" if any one can send on this message to T.T please do so ..Thanks John Harvey
@@johnharvey1693 Probably not through RU-vid, maybe through Patreon but you have to hope whoever reads their social media emails gives a damn. I really don't know where you would go about that, it is a problem.
