So pleased that I had the chance to work in both the Lancashire cotton industry and the Wool industry for short periods. Part of my heritage but all gone now 😀
I recently found a 1970s letter from Oldham council, postmarked 'a town of industry'. Now look at it, hardly any industry left. All the great names, Platts, Asa Lees, Ferrantis, Seddons, Avro, George Dews, etc. long since gone, leaving dependence on the state as the main 'industry'.
2:38 that woman may have killed herself by sucking the thread end in the shuttle and getting a lung full of cotton fibre that eventually gave her BYSSINOSIS!
All gone now and with it a way of life never to return. A sad, sad loss for Lancashire and the UK.
When Oldham was homogeneous.
So pleased that I had the chance to work in both the Lancashire cotton industry and the Wool industry for short periods. Part of my heritage but all gone now 😀
Same here, I worked for Platts in Oldham.
I recently found a 1970s letter from Oldham council, postmarked 'a town of industry'. Now look at it, hardly any industry left. All the great names, Platts, Asa Lees, Ferrantis, Seddons, Avro, George Dews, etc. long since gone, leaving dependence on the state as the main 'industry'.
The best most loyal, work force King Cotton is dead.and so is the work ethic , that these great Northern workers had
The return of textile production to the UK is closer in time than most people think.
Come to Rochdale, the home of asbestos.
I used to clean those weaving machines not in 1948 though lol!
2:38 that woman may have killed herself by sucking the thread end in the shuttle and getting a lung full of cotton fibre that eventually gave her BYSSINOSIS!
Sod that....... Too noisy. And for all the exporting of cotton goods, I never saw a wealthy aunty in my family!