These photos include Gandhi visiting the county's mill workers in 1931 and teenagers hard at work in the 1950s

Lancashire has been home to many cotton mills over years, with the county dominating the textile industry throughout the 1800s and 1900s.

Mill workers in Lancashire excelled at spinning and weaving cotton fibre into fabric, with their creations being shipped around the world.

The photos below include Gandhi visiting Darwen mill workers in 1931, teenage girls working at Lilac Mill and Lily Mill in Shaw in the 1950s when it was part of Lancashire, and local mill workers protesting in London in the 1960s.

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Other cotton mills that feature below are Nelson Mill, Horrocks Crewdson & Company Ltd Cotton Mill in Preston, and Burnley’s Healey Wood Mill, Clock Tower Mill and Fulledge Mill.

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Workers operating the spinning machinery in a Lancashire cotton mill in 1930.

Mahatma Gandhi visiting a Lancashire cotton mill in 1931.

Cotton mill workers in Darwen, Lancashire, greeting Mahatma Gandhi on September 26, 1931.

Bill Barlow (centre) and his band, all workers from Lancashire mills, rehearsing their accordion music in 1936.

Cleaning the cotton and extracting faulty fibre at Horrocks, Crewdson & Company Ltd Cotton Mill in Preston, 1939.

The male staff of a Lancashire mill man their own fire station in 1940.

Cotton workers queue up inside Nelson Cotton Mill for their unemployment benefit in 1951.

Some of Lancashire's cotton mill workers who have been made unemployed or are working part time during a slump in the industry in 1952.

A machine worker in a Lancashire cotton mill in 1952.

Workers in the canteen at the Lilac Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, in 1955.

Workers at the Lilac Mill cotton factory in Lancashire in 1955.

Cotton mill worker Alice Nelson sets out for work at the Lilac Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1955.

Idle looms in Nelson Mill, Lancashire, in 1955 following a decrease in textile orders.

A woman spinning cotton in a Wigan cotton mill in 1955 (when Wigan was classed as Lancashire).

Teenage girls spinning cotton at the Lily mill in Shaw, Lancashire, in 1957.

Teenage girls on their way home after working a shift at the Lily cotton mill in Shaw, Lancashire, in 1957.

Workers leaving Rutland Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1957.

A teenage worker at Lily Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1957.

Workers in the winding room at Lily Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1957.

Workers in the winding room at Lily Mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1957.

Workers take a tea break in the canteen at a cotton mill in Shaw, Lancashire, 1957.

Embroidery Mill in Preston closes in 1958 following "unfair competition in the home market, chiefly from the Far East".

Lancashire cotton workers march through London in 1962 to protest against foreign competition to the cotton industry.

Northern cotton workers travel to London for the Cotton Protest March in 1962 in Hyde Park. (Pictured: Joan Hayes and Jean Roger from Oldham).

Healey Wood Mill in Burnley, Lancashire, 1974.

A view looking south-east along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal with Clock Tower Mills in the distance in 1974.