INDUSTRY: Wakes Week / Blackpool holidaymakers (1928)

EMPIRE NEWS NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Defying an unprecedented depression in the cotton trade Oldham mills close down for Wakes week- and seek happiness at great pleasure resorts. Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: Cotton Town ’Packs up its Troubles’ ENGLAND: Lancashire: Oldham: EXT Rows of terraced houses with cotton mills seen in background Chimneys of mills ’ ... and the operatives seek happiness at the great pleasure resorts. (Scenes at Blackpool)’ Blackpool: Crowd queuing outside amusement park Wooden rollercoaster ’The Big Dipper’ along People down giant slide People along in cars on fairground ride Slide into water at fair Background: Defying an unprecedented depression in the cotton trade Oldham mills close down for Wakes week- and seek happiness at great pleasure resorts. FILM ID: VLVA3JA4N1THWGCO7WFADKVWJA5AL To license this film, visit