Lancashire in England, Blackpool is in this county

1. Lancashire in England, Blackpool is in this county

2. Over 100 years Cotton Mills were all over Lancashire and it was the main industry, most people worked in cotton mills. It was a hard job, long hours and poorly paid, children as young as six worked there too. They do not exist today

3. These are traditional clogs, with a wooden sole and leather upper. They are heavy and hard wearing. People do not wear them today other than for dancing in traditonal dances

4. Clog Dancers in a demonstration showing a traditional Lancashire clog dance, part of English culture

5. The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.

6. Scarborough Fair This is a traditional song or ballad, It is a song with a story tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back.

7. Scarborough Fair • Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.