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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Unaware of what much cheaper labour and imports from the Far East did anyway.
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Many of the cotton mills were being knocked down and the equipment sold to India before I reached my teens, surprisingly this did not have much effect on the local labour market as by then most of the mill workers were getting close to retirement, their children having chosen less boring careers.
We also had many engineering companies so there was never any shortage of work.
When I was young I used to marvel at the Pickford's or Wynn's low loaders, two tractor units at the front and one at the rear, travelling at walking pace as they made their way to Liverpool Docks, having to avoid all the low, and not so low bridges, on the way and always with a Police escort. Strapped onto the low loader would be a massive packing case with an exotic destination stencilled on the side, within the packing case was a giant Ferranti electrical transformer destined for some emerging country, some of these transformers weighed over 100 tons.
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The original Ferranti premises at Hollinwood, Oldham, are now used to produce the Daily Mirror.
