Picture No | 10269802 |
Date | May 1878 |
Description | The riots in the cotton districts |
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A page from the May 1878 Illustrated London News, detailing the cotton riots in Lancashire, which were the response to a proprosed 10% reduction in workers wages. The pictures clockwise from top right are as follows:~~- Drawing room and part of the kitchen in Colonel Jackson's house, destroyed by rioters~~- Hopwood's Mill~~- Bivouac of Lancers in Volunteer Artillery drill shed, Blackburn~~- Colonel Raynsford Jackson's Mill~~- Haslingden Mill in ruins
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Source | Engravings from the Illustarted London News May 25th 1878, page 489 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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