OT but on related NW folk culture cleansing:

Any of you interested in the part that cotton played in the development of Lancashire towns should try to get along to the Lewis Textile Museum in Blackburn this month. The wreckers at Blackburn with Darwen Council are closing the museum down for good on April 1st to save £23,000pa. The museum was gifted to the town to be a perpetual record of King Cotton and has interactive displays and remeniscence material about workers' lives in the cotton industry. Legions of school children and visitors to the town have benefited from the museum over the years and its closure is a very sad prospect.

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