Rena, things come full circle sometimes, from a Lancashire background when the mills were still in full production ,it grieved my husband when in the 1960’s on business trips to India,he saw Lancashire looms being unloaded on the Bombay docks for the weaving industry there.
Whilst others were being smashed up in the mills in Lancashire ,a very sad period .
The industry had no doubt mostly run on what was little better than slave labour ,long hours ,poor pay and Dickensian work rules and poor housing - much built by mill owners .
It needed improving ,but why was it almost totally stopped?
Whole towns losing the mills and subsidiary industries that supplied the machines and maintained them .
As with coal mining ,when the pit closes it affects so much else,so with the mills.
Brigidmac, what a very interesting visit ,I love cemeteries ,usually so peaceful .
At Sunday School and Chapel we walked down the central path - the only path - through the graveyard of the little chapel , with old graves and more recent ones on both sides, so in a way always visitors on Sundays .
If we were early and Sunday School not yet open we would walk through
and were familiar with the names etc of the other children’s antecedents .
Not gloomy or gruesome at all.
Many thanks for Birthday wishes , some lovely flowers from grandson,Flash Harry,Kyra, and their mummy .
Cards etc and had my present from number one son-some perennials for the garden( they are in Rhodes) sister,sister in law,work colleague I was at school with , number two son a new oxygenator for my little pond .
A cool but sunny day .
Gammon steaks for tea ,so not much cooking .
Thanks again for the kind wishes
Am going to further sort out my wardrobes ,get rid of things too big and not worn for a good while.You watch- I will probably gain weight - Sod’ s law!
Who was Sod?
Cheerio , best wishes to anyone else whose birthday is today .
Viktoria.
