SHUTTLES, STEAM & SOOT - A COTTON MILL IN LANCASHIRE photo exhibition by Daniel Meadows at Queen St Mill Museum, Burnley

 

                                                       Well worth a visit 

SHUTTLES, STEAM & SOOT - A COTTON MILL IN LANCASHIRE photo exhibition by Daniel Meadows at Queen St Mill Museum, Burnley 

                         The noise of the factory helped invent a new way of communicating 

                                     High temperatures but no high wages for keeping factory cooler 

One of the myths that male workers put around was that women workers were lazy so when Meadows saw the tackler fast asleep at work he could not pass by the chance to take his photo! 

                       

                                                               Done your time in hell 

Charlie Sutton - "Knackered at fifty," he says, After a lifetime of cleaning flues, 

                            he's looking forward to selling-up and retiring.

                                            "When it comes to my time of dyin' 

                                               To the Lord they're goin' to tell:

                                                  'Lord, it's the inside man from Weldone'

                                                     And he'll say: 'Come right into heaven lad.

                                                      They've done your time in hell."