Fascinating photos of Lancashire's lost cotton mills and workers through the decades
Lancashire has been home to many cotton mills over years, with the county dominating the textile industry throughout the 1800s and 1900s.
Mill workers in Lancashire excelled at spinning and weaving cotton fibre into fabric, with their creations being shipped around the world.mill workers in 1931, teenage girls working at Lilac Mill and Lily Mill in Shaw in the 1950s when it was part of Lancashire, and local mill workers protesting in London in the 1960s.
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