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NORDEN Greenbooth & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY The End of the Hutchinson Reign We left our last visit to Greenbooth with an insight into school life and activity within the village. James Butterworth’s daughter Mary Hutchinson had held an almost regal position within the village. The Hutchinson’s had provided work, housing and education for the village population and they were pillars of the community. They lived at Upper Tenterhouse, a very large and grand mansion with 26 bedrooms, set in a substantial plot of land with a boating lake. They hosted many grand parties and lavish dinners. Their wealth, although providing them with an extremely privileged lifestyle, also generously supported the local community. Mary’s husband Robert Hopwood Hutchinson had been born into a family of wealthy Blackburn cotton manufacturers. Now their eldest son Robert Percy Hutchinson joined his father in the managing of his Nova Scotia Mill in Blackburn whilst the youngest son Arthur Lord Hutchinson worked alongside his mother at Greenbooth Mill. The sons both had very different personalities and Percy put the benefit of his privileged education at Eton and Harvard to use by developing his business acumen. He became interested in politics and set up some independent business dealings, for a while even living in Geneva. Arthur on the other hand was content to remain steadfast to the family 34 To advertise call 07976 289967 or 07974 434793 or email sales@streetwisemag.co.uk
usiness in Greenbooth. When Percy took himself off to London to pursue ventures new, Arthur married Florence and went on to have a daughter, Beryl. Both Arthur and Florence lent enormous support to the people of Greenbooth and Norden, Arthur following on from his father as president of Norden Cricket Club and was to remain in that role for the next 27 years from 1881 to 1908. The mill at Greenbooth had been doing well under Arthurs stewardship but now in 1908 it is up for sale and its closure in many ways was to signal the death knell for the village of Greenbooth and its inhabitants. It is a few years later before the cause of the downfall is totally revealed. Back in London, Percy had become reacquainted with a man called MacKenzie, a previous contact of his, and a somewhat dubious character. Despite his privileged and extensive education it failed to protect him from being led astray by MacKenzie, a corrupted forger. Meeting up with him again, at a point where he had got himself into financial difficulties with the Blackburn mill, he became caught up in some issue with the passing of fraudulent Visit our website www.streetwisemag.co.uk for all the info about the Streetwise magazines 35 They whole heartedly supported not only the everyday working life of the village but contributed heavily to social functions, often hosting event at Tenterhouse and also allowing use of Greenbooth school rooms as a meeting place for social occasions. All this paints a picture of great affluence and yet we know that, due to financial difficulties, the Mill closed its doors in 1908, so what was it that brought about this fall from grace? A newspaper article of 1908 discussing the proposed sale, reveals that the current wage bill was now around £14,000 a year and that the Mill was the largest rate payer in the Norden district and therefore it was very much hoped that the business would continue. Obviously the closure of the mill would go on to have massive implications for the local population.
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