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1986: Last Day For the MILL WORKERS | Forty Minutes | Voice of the People | BBC Archive
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37:56Now PlayingRenee Feather and Bill Edmondson have spent all their working lives in the textile mills of North
Lancashire - but today is their last day. 'I don't want to retire', says Renee. 'but I've had to.'
Renee and Bill have seen many changes since they both began working at the age of 14. 'There are only two mills left in Nelson today, but when I started there was one on every corner.'
As they face the new world of retirement, how do Renee, Bill and their families see the future in their beloved Lancashire?
Narrator: Lindsay Anderson
Photography: Jim Peirson
Sound recordist Michael Turner
Film editor: Jim Latham
Producer: Norman Swallow
Editor: Edward Mirzoeff
Clip taken from Forty Minutes, originally broadcast on BBC Two, 10 April, 1986.
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