The mill

[Davros]

Starting tonight on C4. I wonder if it will be suitable for 10yo DD? They've "done" the Victorians at school so she might find it interesting. But the RT does say its a bit grim and the foreman regularly indecently assaults the women and girls! It is on at 8pm though.

[Deathbyladybirds]

Gutted

[StephenFrySaidSo]

are you watching a week behind? i tried to find it this evening but couldn't. i thought it must be over?

[Aquilla]

Is there any one from Corrie not in this? First Sian and now Molly!

[Clawdy]

All the real-life stories are on the Channel 4 page about it. Esther's story was very like her real life. But she actually asked for solitary confinement instead of having her hair cut off Also I believe old Mr.Greg died as a result of being attacked by a stag in the grounds two years before. Surprised they didn't include that!

[StephenFrySaidSo]

there was a bit of text at the end of tonight's episode saying something like, these are the stories of real people. is that at the end of every ep? ive never noticed before.

[StephenFrySaidSo]

is that the end of it now? will there be no more episodes?

[DoveDovePigeon]

Loving this program

[ImNotBloody14]

isn't it based on true accounts?

[OctopusPete8]

the married bit after a few days was far fetched.

[expatinscotland]

It's still bullshit. She would have been shunned entirely and given the child up. NO chance a good looking foreman would have stepped in and married her pregnant and probably wouldn't have been given permission to do so.

[OctopusPete8]

Oh right yeah should thought, tuned in a few minutes in.

she died didn't she,

She's pretty though isn't she? expat.

Can't believe they cut off her hair.

[Ellenora5]

I've given up now, it's far too dreary for me, I know it all happened and I usually love programmes similar to this, but after The Village and now this, I'm not sure I want to see anymore. I was thinking that myself expat, I suppose it might, anyway once I saw the haircutting I turned it off.

[expatinscotland]

The Suzanna love story is such shit. Yeah, great looking guy would really have courted a woman pregnant out of wedlock.

[ImNotBloody14]

she meant the girl had done the running away but the matron was the one having to fetch her up her meals up all those stairs= extra work for her but the girl, although in solitary confinement, was not having to do her work.

[OctopusPete8]

What did the big matron like woman mean when she said ,

'You do the crime, I do the suffering, wheres the justice?'

[Raahh]

It's funny watching today- we were at QBM again on Thursday, because it's only round the corner, we go quite often. Is funny to see things like the apprentice house on film. Was busy though- and there was a news crew there as well, so it's helped with the tourists.

[cheerfulweatherforthewedding]

I'm not sure I like it. It's not as grim as The Village, but it's almost like a soap opera, somehow.

[Oblomov]

Am finding it nearly as depressing as 'The Village', which I had to give up on, because it was so bl**dy depressing, and nothing happened. And I don't mind bleak, or slow drama. But the village was, pitiful in that sense. And I think this is similar.

[ShadeofViolet]

The problem with the 1833 Factory Act is that it did not provide any real way of checking that it was being adhered to. A handful of inspectors were employed for over 4000 mills.

[guineapiglet]

... and it is always the 'haves' who do well at the expense of the 'have nots' - no change there then.