[Margaret Pilkington]

I can remember when I was growing up, the throngs of people who walked along the 'factory bottom' in Accrington.......there were folk from Highams Mill, Warburtons, Giron Freres and then there were the Howard and Bulloughs lot....you could get killed in the crush.
We exported a lot of these jobs.......I don't know if the government of the time really realised what this would mean....cheap imports of cotton goods coming firstly from Portugal, and latterly from India.

I don't suppose we will ever see the like again.
During my working life I had six jobs...well five jobs(where I worked purely for the money) and 1 career. My career lasted 28(almost 29) years.
The only time I was out of work and drawing dole, was during the time when there were power cuts and we were laid off.

I really do despair for the children growing up. Their prospects look very bleak.