[MargaretR]

I find it difficult to raise any feeling for this demolition other than good riddance.
My grandparents on both sides were weavers. My dad was a tackler, and my mother was a weaver.
I had an uncle who died when I was seven, when the upper storey of a mill collapsed and crushed him whilst he was working.
My dad had a hernia and slipped disc due to the lifting.
I recall my dad going to work with a plaster cast from his hip to his ankle(damaged knees from crawling under looms).
Both my parents had occupational deafness (only recently recognised as an industrial disease).
Byssinosis was a cotton lung disease often not diagnosed (no health service then)
To me, the chimneys are sad reminders of suffering. I will be glad when they are all gone.