[garinda]

Hyndburn has changed in the last thirty odd years.

It might no longer be seen as a industrial/manufacturing area, though unemployment in Hyndburn is less than it was in the late seventies.

Those in work are ensured of a minimum wage, something that didn't happen in the past.

Also those not in work certainly have a higher standard of living than thirty years ago.

State of the art televisions, telephones, washing machines etc., are now seen as a nesessity now, not the luxury items they were thirty years ago.