DOOMED VILLAGE
WORKERS DESPAIR
Since the closing 2J years ago of the cotton mill ground which it has grown, Clitheroe Village, Lancashire, has been without hope, and with the sale of the greater part of the property—houses, streets, and shops—the villagers are bordering on despair, says the "Daily Mail." There is. no purchaser for the mill, there is no trade, there is no capital. Tho villagers, 800 strong, and their fathers and grandfathers have been born and bred in this quaint, Old World centre of industry. The fall of tho auctioneer's hammer has now sounded the last farewell to the good old days. Two hundred Jid fourteen houses have been sold in different lots for £20,----_CS. The, village school, the post office, and all the shops have changed ownership. Almost everything in the village tho mill has beer sold. "Will.no one buy the mill and set us on our feet?" is the despairing question asked by everyone here. But they know the answer. The Low Moor mill, founded by Mr. Jeremiah Garnett in 1799, was one of tho first in the country to install power machinery.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 18
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186DOOMED VILLAGE Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 68, 17 September 1930, Page 18
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