Today’s step back in time thanks to the Lancashire Telegraph archive takes us inside one of the major industrial powerhouses of East Lancashire.
Taken in 1967, the photograph shows the new drawing office at Howard and Bullough in Accrington. This was the days before computers. Instead it was highly-skilled employees with their pencils at their drawing boards.
Howard and Bullough was one of Accrington’s biggest employers - at one time it was one of the largest manufacturers in the country producing machinery for the textile industry when at its height around 6,000 employees were based at the company’s Globe Works.
If you have any photographs of life in East Lancashire in days gone by, you can email them to gill.johnson@nqnw.co.uk
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