by Andrew Gill | Aug 10, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus, Transport
This is Clitheroe Railway Station in Lancashire. The town is in the glorious Ribble Valley and the station is still in use. Photographs of railway stations taken in the 1890s usually show ranks of horse-cabs waiting for the next train to disgorge its passengers but... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 3, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
In Lancashire, factories producing textiles were known as mills. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, thousands of them existed to process wool and cotton and make finished products ranging from military uniforms to bed linen, dresses to curtains. Why... 
by Andrew Gill | Jul 30, 2021 | Gallery, Sport, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Football clubs were big business in the 1890s. Whilst many of the players would have been amateurs and paid very little, the sport had, by then, been organised into leagues with national competitions and the marketing and merchandising that we’re familiar with... 