A youngster helping to restore an historic engine which once powered a Bradley mill met civic dignitaries when they visited the museum which now houses the machine.

Josh Ashworth, eight, has been working on rebuilding the engine for two years with his dad Ian, of PR Autos at Cross Hills.

The 1901 steam machine was moved from Peter Green's Cross Lane Mill, in Bradley, to the Bancroft Mill Engine Museum at Barnoldswick about a decade ago.