Day School - "The changing fortunes of King Cotton

[rossylass]

Came across this information about the day school run by the Lancashire Local History Federation, which is to be held at Preston Masonic Hall on Saturday 23rd February. Four guest speakers with topics including Preston & the cotton famine, recordings of mill memories from the NW Sound Archive, Lancashire Quaker cotton manufacturers, Albert Simpson & the cotton famine & after the handloom weavers - the mid Ribble Valley economy in the late Victorian period.

The fee is £14.50 with lunch & £9.00 without. Applications to be in by 15th February. Contact is Diana Winterbottom - tel 01204 707885.

[Stanley]

I wonder if any of the mill memories will come from the LTP? The NW Sound Archive have the tapes.....

[Wendyf]

Sounds like an interesting day, but I'll be otherwise engaged visiting my mum.

[plaques]

Came across this school entrance sign. Bracewell St School Nelson. A Nelson School Board School built 1898. They either started them off very early in those days or was this part of the support given by the Mills?

[Stanley]

In the LTP plenty of my informants went to school at four years and some even earlier. In the war I started at Hope Memorial before I was 4. In both cases this was to allow mothers to go to the mill or war work.