You might like this....

[Mosaic]

Be interested in your views - I came across it and it struck me as a fine interpretation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD8qT87dGg0&feature=colike

[Jemisa]

Not my taste. Won't be passing it on, Nooooo...

jem

[NOX]

I think that's grand- clever and thoughtfully put together- nice one mosaic:)

[jackthehat]

Excellent, Mosaic.

[horseshoes]

Marvellous. The history of the cotton industry is Britain is very interesting. Before the outbreak of WW1 the output was phenomenal.

[factor-fiction]

Ah- is this a cotton thread?

[vulcan]

yes it is factor, reely.

[jno]

that's quite a yarn

[missnemesis]

Just thought I'd bobbin and see what this thread was all about. Very interesting.

[factor-fiction]

Needles to say, I liked the film

[Mamyalynne]

As a Bolton lass descended from generations who were slaves to King Cotton, I found that very poignant - thank you.

[MarkRae]

...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhE58YYKzs8

[venator]

My Mum was a Horwich lass, Mamalynne, and worked in the industry as a young girl. Everyone in Horwich could lip read - you'd see two women fifty yards apart having a conversation - the called it me-mawing.

[Mamyalynne]

Oh yes meemawing is right, my Grandmother was stone deaf due to the mill, my Mother partially so, my Aunt died in an horrific accident.

My daughter lives in Horwich, I sit here on the site of an old mill, where many a child piecer upper would have crawled beneath monstrous machinery. All that remains is the mill lodge outside, now a haven for wildlife.

[atrollope]

My Aunties in Leigh worked in"t mill,my Uncles worked down Pit.

[venator]

Mark - seeing the L S Lowry reminds me - I went to Bolton School - a year below
Ian McKellan - and there was a very large Lowry on the wall, titled Cotton Town Pastures. Probably from the Tillotson family, who had the local papers.

I wonder where it is now?

[Lie-in King]

Thank you, Mosaic - that was very interesting & enjoyable

[venator]

We're probably related, Mamalynne - my Mum was one of 12 living in Mason Street, and Dad was posh from Lostock.

When they got wed, Grandad put Mum in a corner shop he owned - she'd no idea at all of how to run it, but learned very quickly!

[Mamyalynne]

As a child I lived a few hundred yards from Bolton School and after she retired from the Mill, my Mum was a cleaner there. My brother in law lives just off Mason St.

[venator]

Mum was a Morris - there is still a fair contingent there still, but we've lost touch.

[Mamyalynne]

Sister in law is a Morris, yes a well established name.