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His warehouses survive, and so does part of his brickworks, and a single building from his cotton mill also survives in the car auction complex.

Other local industries included brewing, spinning, dyeing, cotton and worsted manufacture and lead mining.

It was built to transport cotton and silk as well as coal and stone; today, used mainly by holidaymakers, it is considered one of the prettiest waterways in the country.

Close to Butlin's (now Botton's) amusement park, the model yacht pond - opened 1930 - was a popular attraction for many years, with a kiosk nearby for hiring all kinds of vessels.

He had previously made his fortune as a cotton mill owner and by investing in the railways.

On the left are convalescent cotton mill workers; but as mills closed all over Lancashire, the building closed as a convalescent home and was bought by Wyre Borough Council to be their Civic Centre—it

By the mid-1890s, most Lancashire cotton towns enjoyed a full Wakes Week.

The Royal Exchange was where the Lancashire cotton industry did business with the world.

Before clean air acts and the decline of the cotton industry, the only time people could see the Lancashire hills across the Mersey Basin was during Wakes week.

As well as being lovely parks for the people, they were begun to provide work for some of the thousands laid off due to the cotton famine, which was caused by the American Civil War.

After a disastrous fire in 1600 which nearly destroyed the entire town, the market was moved to nearby Potton, in Bedfordshire.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

Atherton was a cotton-spinning town, and for 200 years a mining community. Local collieries included Howe Bridge, Gibfield, and Chanter.

Other local industries included brewing, spinning, dyeing, cotton and worsted manufacture and lead mining.

The most famous person resting here must be John Horrocks, who founded his great cotton empire at Preston. You can see the iron railings around his grave at the bottom left of our picture.

., situated on the Roche, and is one of the chief seats of the flannel and woollen industry and has also many large cotton-mills'.

Todmorden Town Hall, built in 1870, once stood on the border between Yorkshire and Lancashire, a fact reflected in the carvings in the pediment frieze on its classical front, shown here: there are bales of cotton

When the Cotton family commissioned Capability Brown to design a park in 1756, he cut a swathe through the village, separating the church and a couple of farms and cottages from the rest of the village

A large church with fine Gothic windows, it was paid for by the Haworth family, who had made their money from cotton spinning and fustian making.

It was thanks to the generosity of cotton manufacturer William Atkinson that Southport got a Free Library and Art Gallery; he paid for both of them.

Dating from 1926, the war memorial was opened by the Earl of Derby, though its cost was borne by Caleb Thornber, a cotton manufacturer and former Mayor of Burnley.

New shopping arcades were established along Low Street and North Street at the turn of the century, as the town's population continued to enjoy the fruits of the cotton boom years.

Many of the buildings along the main street are imposing, three-storey houses, dating from the period when the town was a centre for lead-mining, cotton and worsted manufacture.

The cotton mill and the later factories were in full production from the 18th century, but now they form part of a heritage park for tourists.