![]() "I'm voting for the British National Party", Says One of Burnley's Finest!Mary Wills was born in Laithe Street in Trinity ward on June 30th 1916, right in the middle of the First World War. She has lived in Burnley all her life and worked in the mill at the bottom of Ward Street, along with hundreds of others from her generation.For more than eight decades Mary has watched life go by in Burnley, and although for most of that time "things were hard", the community battled through together. "After the last war things were particularly difficult", remembers Mary, " but we rolled up our sleeves and got on with living. You could rely on your neighbour because they cared just as much as you did about Burnley. They were Burnley folk, you see." Mary is voting for the British National Party because she doesn't like what is happening to her town. "In the last 20 years things have changed beyond recognition in Burnley. I'm just glad that my mother and father are not here to see it. The community spirit has been broken and people feel isolated and alone. You look around you where you live and think 'what has happened? I don't belong here anymore." Mary reminisced during a walk around Towneley Hall yesterday afternoon. By the War Memorial she stopped and read the inscription. "All those boys lost in the First World War wouldn't like Burnley as it is today. The men and women who died in the Second World War were fighting to defend Britain from invasion, to protect our way of life. 'I'm voting for the British National Party because it is what those who gave their lives in two world wars would be doing. They would be so upset to see what our town has become".
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