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!