Right in front of our eyes
Lancashire's role in the cotton industry is well-known and its many mills and chimneys remain a lasting legacy to the county's prominence during the industrial revolution.
A century before, the man said to have been instrumental in cementing the UK as the most powerful nation in the world, built his home in Darwen at Low Hill House in Bury Fold Lane and lived there for five years. Samuel Crompton, the inventor of the spinning mule which revolutionised the industry, lived at the house during his unsuccessful stint at commercial bleaching.
During his visit to Lancashire in 1931 as a result of a bid to boycott British textile goods Gandhi was mobbed - not with anger but with admiration - by the same community of weavers who had lost their jobs due to the Indian National Congress' boycott of British goods.
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