Synopsis

From Preston to Swinton Michael delivers a stern address in Preston, uncovering the story of four mill workers killed by soldiers during a protest in 1842. In Darwen, he makes an unexpected appearance in pink while charting the evolution of nineteenth-century interior design, from wallpaper patterns to paint colours. Michael explores Salford’s Victorian industrial scene, populated with tiny, fragile figures as captured in the paintings of L.S. Lowry. He concludes this portion of his journey o