Queen Cotton

Queen Cotton - 1941 British Council Film Collection. I believe Mick from Wigan World has said this could be on Talking pictures tonight 18.30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6eEk3sLUTE

Thanks, Lolly, I’ll share the YouTube link over on WW.

Thanks jo anne

With its damp climate, plentiful water power, soft water and abundant labour, Lancashire had the ideal conditions for a cotton weaving industry.

The woven cotton cloth produced in Lancashire's great industrial mill towns - such as Burnley, Manchester, Oldham, Preston, Rochdale and Wigan - accounted for half of the entire British export earnings in 1830.

Such was the scale of this flagship industry. It produced nearly 6 billion square metres of cotton cloth, employed 620,000 people in Lancashire alone, and imported nearly 1 million tons of raw cotton at its peak output in 1913.

Who could have foreseen that by the 1960s and 1970s mills would be closing at a rate of one per week? Slow take up of new technology and competition from Asia reduced Britain’s textile industry to a core of traditional woollens and specialist fabrics. The industrial legacy of cotton remains in the austere and grand mill buildings, now mostly converted to offices and flats.

https://www.discoveringbritain.org/activities/north-west-england/aerial/wigan-mills.html

I think Mick means this Cotton Queen, Finalists 1935 Miss Nora Watson Benson



https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/article/24/4/518/1671208

https://academic.oup.com/view-large/figure/24544660/hwt004f1p.tiff

Cotton Town Chronicles by Peter and Barbara Snape
Date: Thursday 14th May
Time: 1pm – 2pm
Price: £3 including tea and coffee

Cotton Town Chronicles is a folk song-based presentation that provides an interesting overview of working life during the age when cotton and coal were king. It is a journey in which key moments of social history provide the context for the song to take centre stage. Each song tells a story; it’s grease and grime, mills, mines and machinery, poverty, struggle, love, humanity and the ability to look on the bright side of life.

Booking is essential - places are limited so please book by phoning 01942 828128 or emailing
wiganmuseum@wigan.gov.uk

How many cotton mills we in wigan borough, i bet ticsmon will know

Lets ask him

You an' your bloody 'borough'! What would you all do without your council? (couyncil, laaaaike?)