Emerald Muschamp Q1 History coursework- Styal mill
Do you think that Thomas Priestley’s evidence to the Middlesex magistrate’s court is totally accurate? (6 marks)
Thomas Priestley was a 13 year old boy who had run away from his workhouse. His workhouse was Styal mill, a cotton factory.
The reason he gave for leaving the mill were that he was missing his mother and had been ill due to an accident in the mill.