I don’t have any contact details for the creator of this video, but I wanted to share it as it provides a fascinating glimpse into Mee-Mawing for those unfamiliar with it. The video offers an interesting account of this unique practice, helping to bring it to life for those who haven’t seen or heard of it before.

If you want me to take this video down I am happy to do so.

I have used the description that came with this video:

AT OLDHAM’S PEAK, IN 1928 THERE WERE 365 COTTON MILLS, WORKING NIGHT AND DAY. THE LAST COTTON WAS SPUN IN OLDHAM IN 1998. Mee-mawing was a form of speech with exaggerated movements to allow lip reading employed by workers in weaving sheds in Lancashire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The noise in a weaving shed rendered hearing impossible so workers communicated by mee-mawing which was a cross between mime and lip reading It was said that each mill had its own dialect.

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