OneGuyFromBarlick

Cathy wrote: ↑31 Jan 2026, 04:22 I can still see our Grandma Tillotson (Tillum) behind one of the weaving machines..
And hear that awful noise.

When I was a young child and my parents were both on shift work to pay the rent I can remember my dad taking me with him to Haston Lee Mill in Blackburn to give my mum some lunch. As you say Cathy, an awful noise, what we usually called it was a `din'! Also I can still smell it but can't think how to describe that characteristic smell. Anyone who's been in a working in such a place would know the smell.

NB: At first I wrote Roe Lee Mill aka Haston Lee Mill because it seems to go under both names on the web when I looked but then I remembered why it gets confused so often. The local area is known as Roe Lee and its on Whalley New Road on the way to Brownhill roundabout. A street goes off to the left, under the railway bridge and round to Roe Lee Mill. Another street goes off the main road to the right and up the hill to Roe Lee Park. Before reaching the park you pass Haston Lee Mill on the left. I'm writing as if they still exist but they might not now.