Scenes of Lancashire from a BFI film about the cotton industry after WW2. (Image: BFI) Titled ‘Lancashire’s time for adventure,’ the video explains how the cotton industry was trying to bounce back after the war. Lancashire mill workers from an archive 'cinemagazine' film in the BFI archives. The narrator describes Lancashire and its people: “Here, in the cotton region, are 70 towns within 30 miles of Manchester. At the same time, a large number of cotton industry workers had become munitions operators during the war and never returned to the mills.

Source: The Times March 23, 2025 11:58 UTC