Lancashire cheese only 6–8 weeks, resulting in a crumbly, fresh, high-acid cheese. Lancashire cheese Lancashire is an English cow's-milk cheese from the county of Lancashire. There are three distinct varieties of Lancashire cheese. Young "Creamy Lancashire" and mature "Tasty Lancashire" are produced by a traditional method, whereas "Crumbly Lancashire" (more commonly known as "Lancashire Crumbly" within Lancashire) is a more recent creation suitable for mass production. It is traditionally paired with Eccles cakes and Chorley cakes. For centuries, Lancashire dairy farmers' wives made cheese from surplus milk. On small farms there was insufficient milk from a single day to make a cheese,
Monton Mill, Eccles Oldham architects. Monton Mill was built in 1906, a typical mill of this period. The industry peaked in 1912 when it produced 8 billion yards of cloth. The Great War of 1914–18 halted the supply of raw cotton, and the British government encouraged its colonies to build mills to spin and weave cotton. The war over, Lancashire never regained its markets. The independent mills were struggling. The Bank of England set up the Lancashire Cotton Corporation in 1929 to attempt to rationalise and save the industry. Monton Mill, Eccles was one of 104 mills bought by the LCC, and one