The advance of technology and foreign competition leading the cheaper imports spelled the end for many of the mills which had made such a contribution to the prosperity Bury and Lancashire as a whole.
Taken in 1962 this photo shows demolition underway of Wellington Mills, Radcliffe.
Throughout the Sixties scenes like this were increasingly common as giants of our industrial heritage gradually disappeared
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