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Workers at Spring Bank Mill, Nelson (1900)
Lively Lancashire millworkers, including young boys and girls, at the
mill gates.
Overview
The practice of employing children to work 'half-time' was widespread in the cotton mills of Lancashire. Here, many of them appear to be in high spirits, though they may have been encouraged by the filmmakers. James Kenyon had a habit of staging colourful incidents for the camera and he - or another showman - may well have prompted some of the rough and tumble action seen here.
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