King Cotton - The Fivepenny Piece

this one for all my Lancashire Friends who have shared a similar heritage to me . The Cotton industry which grew up in lancashire in massive proportions and almost disappeard in only fifty years.

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• five
• pennypiece
• lancashire
• cotton

[oldfolkiepad]

Delightful. I hadn't heard this song before but I shall come back to it several times. Your video montage sets it off beautifully. By pure coincidence, my wife and I are going to visit the Quarry Bank cotton mill museum at Styal next week. Not Lancashire, I realise, but not far away.

[trichoone]

thankyou glad you liked it .

[Kittielips]

Thank you for this, it's one of my favourites. 5*****. Jennie. X.

[trichoone]

you are welcome jennie

[Templemain]

What a video. That was just great. I came not from Lancashire but Linconshire on the Hull. Yours was cotton & ours was fish from trawlers battling the frozen wastes around Iceland & the North seas. They were tough times Trichoone.

[trichoone]

thanks templemain tough times indeed and all my relations on my Mother's side are in Grimsby/Cleethorpes I might do a vid for them and you .

[anneshrley]

I grew up listening to the fivepenny Piece, my dad was/is a huge fan! I've never seen any videos before so this was fantastic. thankyou!

Do you happen to have the song with the lyrics " just watch out, they'll tell you owt, for they must think that we know nowt, prices rising, not surprising, just watch out they'll tell you owt"? I wanted to post it to FB.. perfect for todays economic climate!

[haybee12]

a magician once said to my grandad "would you be surprised if i pulled a rabbit from your trousers" he said "very surprised, av getten two ferrits deign theer"

[haybee12]

@Kittielips height fettlin,aut aureet,not spocken fir a bit

[belgeandhammer]

wonderful theres no place like home lancashire lad

[5grosvenor]

Just visited Queen St. Cotton Heritage Mill, Burnley, and the guide movingly spoke the words of 'KIng Cotton' which summed up all that we saw there.

[TheSteamtramman]

We were barge-masters carrying cotton among other goods and both my father and my uncles were thankful that in wartime at least there was food every day. Give you a clue: I was born at Starvation Buoys on the Thames. And the dockers got paid by the day, no ships, no pay - same in Manchester where we used to run to No9 dock I think. And no dole. Ain't life easy now.......

[smileysal1976]

i remember me and my classmates miming to this in a drama lesson, it brings back memories, thanks for posting :o)

[northwestmanuk30]

@Kittielips

i think you should jennie you have a great voice i think i've said before you sound a lot like linda.xx