Oastler

Past the Alhambra Theatre and north up a steep hill is the Oastler Shopping Centre, where 59-year-old Stella Georgiou of the Fountains Cafe is busy serving up fried breakfasts and pots of tea for shoppers.

Traders at its replacement, the nearby Oastler Centre, urged the likely new owners to respect the company's origins.

This narrow little street saw the endless procession of around they roared their support for Oastler and the Ten Hour Bill.

The 'Pilgrimage to York' was orgaised by Richard Oastler, one of the leading voices in the fight for a ten hour working day for 'thousands of little children' who were 'daily compelled to labour from six o'clock in the morning to seven in the evening'.

He continued to do research there after he moved to Yale in 1966 to be the Oastler professor of forest ecology.