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Lancashire Hot Pot
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Posted -  01/01/2008  :  18:28
Hello everyone...  I'd like to share a poem with you. My Mum, originally from Barlick, put this one together, using her wonderful talent, and her fabulous memories.... helped along a little by her Sisters who were Mill Workers in Barlick.  Enjoy :o)

Edited by - Lancashire Hot Pot on 30/07/2008 22:17:18

Edited by - Lancashire Hot Pot on 19/06/2009 19:28:21
 

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Callunna
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Posted - 01/01/2008 : 18:39
BRILLIANT!

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Lancashire Hot Pot
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Posted - 01/01/2008 : 18:48
OK... you asked..... now my Mum' ll probably kill me ! Devil

 

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Julie in Norfolk
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Posted - 01/01/2008 : 21:41
Absolutely brilliant. Lovely. Good mental imagery.

Thank you.


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Rossie
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Posted - 01/01/2008 : 22:58
Superb !


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Doreen
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 10:38
WonderfullYay


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moh
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 12:06
You could really hear and sense all the sounds of the weaving shed.


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Rossie
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 12:25
Lots of my ancestors were mill workers and this makes me think of them.  My paternal grandmother worked as a Cotton Winder as an 11 year old in a mill in Accrington.  She was a bright girl and she wanted to become a teacher, but she and her older sister HAD to work in the mill as their older brother was a very clever lad and the money they earned provided the opportunity for him to train for and eventually become a Pharmacist.  The girls were given no choice - this was what they had to do to give their brother a chance.  How times have changed.

Gill


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Lancashire Hot Pot
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 14:44
What would todays kids say if they were to go out to work at that tender young age?  OMG... It don't bear thinking about !  My two girls... age 13 and 15 have a hissy fit if I ask them to pick their dirty clothes up off the bedroom floors ,,,  Yeah Gill.... how times have changed eh.
And not for the better either. Sadly


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belle
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 17:10
Loved the weaving poem, lots of words for people to research further....and as you say times have changed, one thing that seems to be missed out of historians versions of the past is the idea that people had a pride in what they did and felt part of a bigger whole. Wouldn't do us any harm to get something of that back.


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moh
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Posted - 02/01/2008 : 20:18
My mum and dad were weavers and were determined I would not 'go into the mill' - I used to work in the winding room in school holidays to get spending money, but could not have stood to work there full time - hats off to those who did.


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belle
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 13:52
I just found out my dad was a jacquard tackler for a time, what would this involve?


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Lancashire Hot Pot
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 15:43


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belle wrote:, one thing that seems to be missed out of historians versions of the past is the idea that people had a pride in what they did

Last line of Mum's Mill poem....   Wink


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belle
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 18:03
Yes, that was the point I was making.


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Rossie
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Posted - 03/01/2008 : 19:18
Belle - a tackler was an overlooker of power loom weavers.
Joseph Jacquard, a Frenchman, constructed a loom in 1801 that used a series of punched cards to control the pattern of longitudinal warp threads depressed before each sideways passage of the shuttle.  His invention allowed patterns to be woven without the intervention of a weaver.  By the 1820s the growth in the use of his loom gave the textile industry a tremendous boost in Britain and by 1833 there were about 100,000 power looms being used in this country that had been influenced by Jaquard's invention. 

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John T
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Posted - 11/05/2008 : 19:52
Absolutely wonderful!
Those are so good.
When I read the first poem the hair on my arms stood up it is so dramatic and colourful.
The second poem made me laugh so much. Thank you Lancashire Hot Pot.
Both are totally top rate poems and exceptionally well crafted.
Wish I could write as well as this.


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