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Cotton Protest March, 1962
Cotton Protest March, 1962, L Blandford, Daily Herald Archive, ©National Media Museum Nineteen-year-old Jean Rogers, from Oldham and her friend Joan Hayes, take a quick breather in Hyde Park before joining 6000 other Lancashire cotton workers in a two-hour march through cheap cloth from India, Pakistan and Hong Kong.
Cotton Protest March, 1962, L Blandford, Daily Herald Archive, ©National Media Museum Nineteen-year-old Jean Rogers, from Oldham and her friend Joan Hayes, take a quick breather in Hyde Park before joining 6000 other Lancashire cotton workers in a two-hour march through cheap cloth from India, Pakistan and Hong Kong.