Stockport's Old Corn Mill Tunnels

This video is about the industrial history of Stockport and Manchester. We investigate The town of Stockport's old corn mill tunnels. These tunnels took water from the river Goyt to drive waterwheels for the old corn mills. We start the story at Stringers weir built in the 18th century at the start of the Industrial Revolution in Stockport and Manchester. Industrial wars and Stockport's famous workable sandstone created a situation where each mill owner ended up driving his own tunnel to utilise the precious commodity of water power. So much water was taken from the river Goyt that at times the river almost ran dry. This video overlaps with our Stockport power station video. As we got a glimpse at the old water tunnels in that video. We also further look at cultural references and this time we look at how the film A taste of honey utilised the back drop of stockport power station. Stringers tunnel is full of deep mud and proves to be a treacherous explore wading through the mud of the old water tunnel.

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