Beside the Seaside with Sarah Lancashire
- Episode aired Nov 20, 2006
Sarah Lancashire looks at the history of Wakes Week. In the cotton towns of Lancashire, all the mills in a given town used to close down for a week (a different week in each town) to allow t... Read allSarah Lancashire looks at the history of Wakes Week. In the cotton towns of Lancashire, all the mills in a given town used to close down for a week (a different week in each town) to allow the workers to take a summer holiday. Whole communities went on holiday together, usually t... Read allSarah Lancashire looks at the history of Wakes Week. In the cotton towns of Lancashire, all the mills in a given town used to close down for a week (a different week in each town) to allow the workers to take a summer holiday. Whole communities went on holiday together, usually to seaside resorts such as Blackpool or Llandudno. The practice died out with the closure o... Read all