Sandstone Cottages on Mill Street in Padiham Lancashire housed hand loom weavers. The road outside them is a cobbled street now in a conservation area

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Padiham was a cotton weaving and coal mining industrial town,but these industries died out and conservation is now the object. A whole lifestyle has disappeared but the architecture is still a reminder

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Location: Padiham, Lancashire, England
Photo credit: © Brenda Kean / Alamy / Afripics
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