DOOMED VILLAGE
WORKERS’ DESPAIR. Since the closing 2 y 2 years ago of the .cotton mill around which it has grown, Clitheroe Village, Lancashire, has been without hope, and with the sale of the greater part of the property —houses, streets, and shops the villagers are - bordering on despair, says the “Daily Mail.' There is no purchaser mill, there is no trade, there is no capital. The villagers, 800 strong and theii fathers and grandfathers have been born and bred in this quaint, Old World centre of industry. The fall of the auctioneer's hammer has now
sounded the last farewell to the good old days.
Two hundred and fourteen houses have been sold in different lots for £20,265. The village school, the post office, and all the shops have changed ownership. Almost everything in the village except the mill has been sold.
“Will no one buy the mill and set us on our feet?” is the despairingquestion asked by everyone here. But they know the answer. The Low Moor mill, founded by Mr. Jeremiah Garnett in 1799, was one of the first in the country to install power machinery.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3241, 11 December 1930, Page 7
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189DOOMED VILLAGE King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 3241, 11 December 1930, Page 7
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