Here's what life was like for Lancashire mill workers after the WWII, according to archive footage from the BFI ...

The mill started operating in 1895 with a thousand looms weaving calico cloth, which was the main type of cotton cloth made by Lancashire's industry. Following the decline of the manufacturing ...

For the supplies of that material which keeps their enormous mills at work ... not by speculative reasoning. The Lancashire manufacturers must now see that cotton will not, as a matter of course ...

Entire towns would be left virtually deserted as workers and their families packed their bags for a week away at the same ...

Today marks an important date in British history. The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act passed through parliament on March 25 ...

Shuttles, Steam and Soot: A cotton mill in Lancashire by Daniel Meadows is on show at Four Corners on Roman Road in Bethnal Green, London, until 29 March 2025.

A century ago Lancashire contained a population ... or other possible causes -- our mills would be stopped for want of cotton, employers would be ruined, and famine would stalk abroad among ...

At this point in history, many of the mills that defined the landscape were either abandoned or repurposed and the cotton industry that had built Lancashire towns like Oldham was falling behind ...

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