Platt's Lap Converter

Nellie Boote's laundry in Market Street in operation, the women dashing away with all manner of smoothing irons as clothes are sorted, mended, washed, ironed and sorted again.

A mile of yarn and a million loops to make one stocking: the culmination of a four hundred year old craft.

Fashion doesnt grow on treesor does it! Tyne Tees TV was bang on-trend with this brilliant news feature on the hip 1960s cult for a disposable age - paper fashion.

Twisted yarns and empty spindles, everything from Bouclé to Slub yarn, from beginning to end, and all, in the end, displayed on a ‘normal’ model in typical 1970s fashion.

From raw resource to finished product, by cleaning and spinning, weaving and bleaching - take a look at the textile industry from the inside.

Wearing Fur gets Hairy

Disabled people working in the community in Oldham.

A last look at the mighty steam engines that once powered Lancashire's mills.

"Britain's bread hangs by Lancashire's thread" – cotton, Britain's great post-war hope.

See how steam powered the textile industry of Lancashire.

The Collin family of Chadderton, Oldham, enjoy life to the full.

The mayoral procession and a day of civic pride in Oldham.

Spoiler alert! The fox is always going to outsmart the hounds in this delightful, balletic cartoon that heads from the countryside into 1930s suburbia.

Carmen get your cartoon opera fix in this (very!) loose version of Bizet’s classic tale of romance and treachery.

Toy Story meets Fatal Attraction in this tale of an Edwardian childhood romance scuppered by poor finances and a stalking dolly

Who does he think he’s kidding? This parodic day-in-the-life portrait of Mr Hitler is one of the very few British examples of comic cartoon propaganda from WW2.

Remember when Charlie Chaplin went into space? Reality is no obstacle in this endlessly inventive silent cinema cartoon of the 'Little Tramp'

1920s canine icon Bonzo the Dog tests the Entente Cordiale to the limit in this silent British cartoon