Shown at Easter, and part the programme has been shot in Colne. Veteran millworker and trade union official Mr Harry Kershaw, of Temple Street Colne, has been filmed and interviewed among a panorama of local mills. And to give a topical touch to the programme, some of the younger pupils at Park High School were asked how much pocket money, or payment for jobs done, they receive each week. The programme is entitled “Fourpence a Day ”, that apparently being the wages of a textile half-timer. Now 75, Mr Kershaw started his working life on this system in Barnoldswick, and was able to recall his early days in the mill. The programme deals with child labour in the Victorian and Edwardian eras in both Lancashire and Yorkshire.
The Park pupils who faced the cameras were Deborah Lee, Mandy Penrose, Adam Tinniswood, Simon Constable, Emma Barker, Melanie Foulds, Ian Fazakerley and Mark Sedgwick. Nicky White had also been chosen, but was off ill.