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|title=The Mill Girls

|sort=Mill Girls, The

|publisher=Ebury Press

|date=July 2014

|summary=Four very different women tell their stories of life 'in mill', working in Lancashire's cotton mills during the war years and beyond.

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''The Mill Girls'' is a collection of true stories based on interviews with women who worked at Lancashire's cotton mills during the war years. Leaving school at the tender age of 14, the girls were thrown headlong into the world of work, at a time when jobs were plentiful and the benefits culture we know today was non-existent. The choice was a simple one: work or starve. Conditions were harsh, the mills noisy, dangerous and dirty and pay was low. Despite this, many of the women look back at their time 'in mill' with warm fondness and nostalgia.