Friday, February 8, 2019

The Glendale Mill

14 comments:

  1. Sad that this historical piece has been let go to ruin.
    Cotton is not the best of subjects here in Australia at present with the river systems
    in the so-called cotton growing area being so dry and the cotton farmers 'stealing' water
    and also then with pesticides polluting the river system - you should see the 100's of thousands
    of dead fish in the Murray-Darling system!
    And politicans in the various states do nothing but blame each other's administrations!
    Makes my blood boil!
    Cotton needs a plentiful supply of water - Australia - off the coastal fringes is a dry nation
    as Diane has pointed out in her wonderful blog and you can see from Margaret's northern travel blog
    reports.
    Why Australia grows cotton is beyond me..........let wet countries grow the stuff.
    Colin

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  2. This is a historical place, but it is now dilapidated condition. This is sad.

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  3. That's not a pretty part of history.

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  4. The history of the country unfortunately.

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  5. Such a shame that it is left to fall into such bad repair.

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  6. Reading your post at first I was thinking it was now a restored historical site. But now realized that you did some research to provide us all these details. It is a very sad part of our history and thankfully we are beyond sending young children to work. Probably not the case in some developing countries.

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  7. Well that's what was done to survive back then, they didn't know anything else.
    Interesting read and certainly wouldn't be tolerated in most countries today.

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  8. Its sad the town authorities can't afford to renovate the buildings and make it an historical park for tourists.

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  9. great buildings. should be renovated.
    have a wonderful day

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  10. Life was tough for those poor children - as is still is for those children in child labour today in the fabric and clothing industries in countries where they mass produce cheap clothing for first world countries. We haven't come such a long way in world terms.

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  11. Think that the new purchaser would need some vision to restore that tower - or maybe that it what is gained from the view at the top haha!
    Wren x

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  12. Dear Cynthia, so much history in that one South Carollina town and its mill. The history of our country bound up with the lives of its people. Thank you for sharing this. Tears came to my eyes when I saw those children. Yes, things seem bad at times now; but, oh, so much better than they used to be in many ways. Peace.

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  13. Poor little children. We sure have life easy now, don't we. All the girls in those pictures look so pretty, and all of them are slim.

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