Bacup, Plantation Street
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Bacup, Plantation Street
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 8 Dec 2013
On the hillside, above Market Street, Plantation Street was home to hundreds of mill operatives who worked in the cotton mills of Bacup during the industrial revolution; the local MP condemned the slums of Bacup as "worse than the slums of London and Glasgow". Plantation Street and Market Street were demolished in the 1960s.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.700386
Longitude
-2.201413