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Excerpts from the Video Archive Loom instructor from Queens Mill, Lancashire talking about setting up the machinery and using the shuttle Thelma Lynch talking about poverty and her jobs in t'mill Eileen Bourke talking about an industrial dispute in the Mill and what young people have missed out on today Margaret Lomax talking about clogs on the stone steps Winnie Crompton talking about the different jobs in the mill and types of cotton quality Nora Robert's first job as a Bobbin sorter Mavis Watkinson talks about the housing shortage after WW2 and lodging with an Indian family who learned about Lancashire ways Eileen Bourke and Anne Shandley talk about looking out for enemy planes from the mill in Bolton during World War 2 Doreen Smith gives a detailed description of the work of a piecer in Bolton's cotton mills Brian Herrity on working as a 'little piecer' in the original 'antiquated' Samuel Compton mill in the 1950s where 'health and safety didn't exist' Bill Stubbs describes how he got started and a typical day in the Bolton mill Brian Herrity describes describes growing up in poverty in Bolton after the Second World War Kenneth Fisher gives a detailed description of the job of little piecer in Bolton's cotton mills Denise Lonsdale talks about how the Bolton cotton mills never stopped Beryl Wood talks about the social life of mill workers in 1950s Bolton Noel Harris on how the mills declined in the 80s due to competition from abroad Eileen Bourke and Anne Shandley talk about the wages and the price of things in the 1940s compared to now Joan Crump tells us about the noise in Bolton's mills and how it led to deafness |
