Aunty Lucy and the Flying Shuttle - Talking About My Generation

Aunty Lucy and the Flying Shuttle - Talking About My Generation

My Dad was born in 1895 and so he was 56 when I was born. He was the youngest of his family having two older sisters and an older brother.  They all worked in the mill, the cotton industry being the main employer in Oldham and surrounding districts at the beginning of the 20th century. All except my Aunty Lucy who worked in spinning, she was a weaver at the Falcon Mill on Victoria Street, Chadderton. Lucy was a small, bright, quiet woman whom I …