VISITORS to Helmshore Mills Textile Museum over the bank holiday weekend will be transported back to the 1940s.
On Sunday and Monday, August the 24 and 25, vocal group The Spitfires will entertain throughout with wartime songs and comedy.
The event, which also includes a 1940s fashion parade, will give visitors the opportunity to reflect what life was like on the home front in the 1940s, when both mills were in full production.
The waterwheel in Higher Mill and the mule spinning machinery of the cotton mill next door will be working over the two days.
Visitors will also be able to meet a black marketeer, an ARP warden and learn more about rationing from a lady from the ministry.
The museum will be offering children the chance to make their own wartime dolls.
Opening hours will be extended from 11am to 5pm on both days.
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