• Cotton industry

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:32 pm**

If I mention the Cotton industry, how many posts will it take to move this on to a completely different subject? Goodness there are some very strange creatures on this board

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:34 pm**

Jack what could be stranger than to start a thread on "The Cotton Industry" on a football forum

just to garner reactions

Ohhh f*** I just reacted ... you win

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:41 pm**

It's bobbins

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:44 pm**

I worked for over 35 years in the Cotton industry

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:48 pm**

I have this thread sewn up

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:51 pm**

Went to Quarry Mill in Manchester, and we saw the mill we now live next to as one of the other mills the owners owned

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:53 pm**

Sounds like you are spinning a yarn !

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:55 pm**

Lancasterclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:51 pm
Went to Quarry Mill in Manchester, and we saw the mill we now live next to as one of the other mills the owners owned

I ued to deliver cotton to there when I was helping my uncle on his wagon during school holidays ---great education as a young teenager.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:58 pm**

Started work at Holmefield Mill - Barrowford in 1976 .

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:00 pm**

I think the OP is starting to "needle" some people

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:00 pm**

Ashingtonclaret46 wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:55 pm
I ued to deliver cotton to there when I was helping my uncle on his wagon during school holidays ---great education as a young teenager.

Worth a visit if you've got an interest in the cotton industry and want to know a bit more about it*

*or in our case, handy place to meet the in laws about half way

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:04 pm**

This thread is full of cotton pickers.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:05 pm**

Coming up to the home games 1960s,always went to the Cotton Mills,on a Sunday morning,before we went back to the Midlands,with towels,tea towels,for all the family,Top Qaulity!

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:13 pm**

Gone. But not for cotton!

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:13 pm**

Worked in 3 mills for my whole 35+ years. Some achievement in a dying (not dyeing) industry.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:21 pm**

Get in!
Mellon!

Loops
Wrong thread.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:25 pm**

Just told the wife to get dressed, she's just had a shower and hasn't a "stitch" on

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:36 pm**

Bosscat wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:25 pm
Just told the wife to get dressed, she's just had a shower and hasn't a "stitch" on

Did she use a flannel in the shower? Go and canvas her about it & dont accept any waffle.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:39 pm**

Buxtonclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:41 pm
It's bobbins

No, it's weaving

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:58 pm**

Talkingof cotton, me, Roy Thistlethwaite and Sam Pickles used to go to the Sefton WM Club on Cotton Tree Lane in Colne from Nelson every Friday night. The club was like something from "Phoenix Nights" with a couple of turns, "exotic dancers", cheap ale and an old bloke on the door who had no problems letting us in. We were sixteen.

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 9:05 pm**

LeadBelly wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:36 pm
Did she use a flannel in the shower? Go and canvas her about it & dont accept any waffle.

That reply made me "Wince"yet I liked it

Posted: **Mon Nov 08, 2021 11:54 pm**

There's nothing like kissing the shuttle!

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 6:35 am**

Some warped responses on here.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:43 am**

Jesus weft!

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:49 am**

The Sefton WM club was on Knotts Lane Colne

Cotton Tree Lane is about 2 miles away at the other end of town

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:10 am**

This thread is hanging by one.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:32 am**

Love an old MILF I must say

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:43 am**

professsorpiehead wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 09, 2021 7:49 am
The Sefton WM club was on Knotts Lane Colne

Cotton Tree Lane is about 2 miles away at the other end of town

You're right., Prof. Mind you, it was er, quite a while ago.....

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:45 am**

Where did it come from where did it go ? Where did it come from cotton thread no.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:45 am**

Who remembers The Billy Cotton Band Show?

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:14 am**

No remoaners here blaming Brexit for the demise of the Cotton Industry then?

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:29 am**

Anthony Cotton is on Coronation Street

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:05 pm**

this thread didn't have me in stitches, almost enough to give you the needle.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:14 pm**

KateR wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:05 pm
this thread didn't have me in stitches, almost enough to give you the needle.

At least its not "pants" like a lot of threads on here Kate

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 3:11 pm**

boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:45 am
Who remembers The Billy Cotton Band Show?

Wakey Wake....eeeeeeeeeeeyyyyyy!

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:27 pm**

BigChaCha wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 09, 2021 9:14 am
No remoaners here blaming Brexit for the demise of the Cotton Industry then?

That's all three sheets to the sinned.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 5:35 pm**

They cannot harvest Cotton in March ...

Because its still Lint

I'll get mi coat

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:17 pm**

jackmiggins wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 7:32 pm
If I mention the Cotton industry, how many posts will it take to move this on to a completely different subject? Goodness there are some very strange creatures on this board

What about it? My industry. Not just a yarn it was. Whos the Card then?

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:21 pm**

Its all Eco now. Sustainability and Organic.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 10:27 pm**

I was surprised to learn, although I probably shouldn’t have been, that during the cotton famine which caused misery for Lancashire workers, it wasn’t just the short supply of cotton because of the American civil war that caused problems but the buying and hoarding of cotton by merchants here in Britain. Hoping to push the price up and profit from the crisis.

Posted: **Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:04 pm**

boatshed bill wrote: ↑
Tue Nov 09, 2021 8:45 am
Who remembers The Billy Cotton Band Show?

Waley Wake aye

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 12:57 pm**

This thread is just a wind up. Have you lot not cottoned on yet. You’re like a load of Rotherham fans: millers.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 1:02 pm**

Sykoclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Nov 08, 2021 8:13 pm
Worked in 3 mills for my whole 35+ years. Some achievement in a dying (not dyeing) industry.

That is actually interesting and i would love to hear a bit more about it because for many it is now in the distant past

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:05 pm**

Well LS7, a potted history
1974-77 Joshua Hoyle & Sons, Plumbe St, Burnley
1977-89 Thomas Mason, Primet Mill, Colne
1989-2011 JH Birtwistle, Grande Rd Mill, Haslingden
All Cotton Weavers
Anybody else worked any of these?

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:14 pm**

Sylkoclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:05 pm
this was how I saw your user name buddy

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:25 pm**

Sykoclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:05 pm
Well LS7, a potted history
1974-77 Joshua Hoyle & Sons, Plumbe St, Burnley
1977-89 Thomas Mason, Primet Mill, Colne
1989-2011 JH Birtwistle, Grande Rd Mill, Haslingden
All Cotton Weavers
Anybody else worked any of these?

My Mum spent most of her working life working at JH Birtwistle in Haslingden absolutely ruined her hearing,but she enjoyed being a weaver.She worked there with the Haslingden CC bowler Rupert Jackman

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:53 pm**

Birtwistle's was the best mill I ever worked at. In 1990 it became part of the John Lewis Partnership and all the workers enjoyed great benefits.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:59 pm**

Sykoclaret wrote: ↑
Wed Nov 10, 2021 4:53 pm
Birtwistle's was the best mill I ever worked at. In 1990 it became part of the John Lewis Partnership and all the workers enjoyed great benefits.

I did a four week stint at Ilex Mill in Rawtenstall..weft carrying I hated it went into the slipper trade better working conditions and superb wages.

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:18 pm**

Weft carrying not the nicest job but loom sweeper was worse

Posted: **Wed Nov 10, 2021 5:26 pm**

Sydney Cotton, helped win the war with the development of the RAF's Photographic Reconnaissance Unit (PRU).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Cotton

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