In the 1980's there was a TV Documentary series called All Our Working Lives. The programes concern the history of various industries, chemicals, the aircraft industry, electronics, etc. BBC4 have updated the series and the program today was on the cotton industry in Lancashire, a story of decline and fall, with almost no industry left today.
My grandmother was a spinner in one of the smaller mills in Bury until she retired at 65. I was taken into the mill when she retired and I was about four or five. The spinning machines towered above like some kind of metal canyon. It was so noisy that all the women could lip-read.
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