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R L Kisby and the Trustee Savings Bank (right) have gone, and Mills the newsagents have taken their place.

Shaw developed as part of Crompton and by the early 1900s it had 29 spinning mills.

The film 'Whistle Down The Wind' with Hayley Mills was filmed in and around Downham village.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

This picture shows a mill leat from the River Asker (right) and a three storey building (left), the former Marquis of Granby, which dates from 1768.

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

Station Road, on the left, leads over the railway and across the Great Ouse to the mill.

In nearby Westbury Leigh, part of the parish of Westbury, cloth mills and weavers' cottages remind us of its past.

There were once 200 mills and industrial chimneys pouring smoke into the air of Burnley.

A little to the west of here, near the weir, is the old mill, also now luxury houses.

The 18th-century machinery inside is older than the structure, but like many of the tower mills it has a long history.

Distinctive Welsh woollen cloth was manufactured at the mill in the village, and has latterly become a tourist outlet for these products.

Brewhurst Mill is a complete and conserved corn watermill. The shop on the left has old enamelled metal cigarette advertising signs fixed to the wall. There is a larger shop across road.

The stream water was used to power cloth mills. The pure water was also suited for dyeing cloth. The Falcon Inn dates from the early 1700s - it has a date stone of 1711.

The other mill chimneys in the distance are in the Burnley Wood area.

At 127 miles, this is the longest canal in Britain, and creates a vital trans-Pennine crossing between the mill towns of Yorkshire and the seaports of the Mersey.

Whitworth`s mills and quarries attracted Irish immigrants, who had to walk to St John`s Roman Catholic Chapel, Rochdale until the Rev John Millward opened a Whitworth Mission in 1860.

For over a century, Blackburn was known as 'the biggest weaving town in the world'; it boasted over 80,000 looms in 130 mills.

The stream water was used to power cloth mills. The pure water was also suited for dyeing cloth. The Falcon Inn dates from the early 1700s - it has a date stone of 1711.

This picture shows a mill leat from the River Asker (right) and a three storey building (left), the former Marquis of Granby, which dates from 1768.

The water provided power for the two mills; the last closed in 1965, and the other generated electricity for the village until 1948.

The flour mills (B399087, left background) are a reminder of the port's heyday when the trading vessels of the world would have queued to unload.

The 127 miles of the Leeds to Liverpool canal took 40 years to complete; the canal reached Gargrave from Bingley and Skipton in 1774, and linked with Leeds three years later.

The weir provided power for the ancient mill that has been here since the time of the Knight's Templars.