 During the Industrial Revolution the tradition of the wakes was adapted into a regular summer holiday particularly, but not exclusively, in some parts of the North of England and industrialised areas of the Midlands where each locality nominated a wakes week during which the local factories, collieries and other industries closed for a week.The wakes holiday started as an unpaid holiday when the mills and factories were closed for maintenance.Each town in Lancashire took the holiday on a different week in the summer so that from June to September each town was on holiday a different week.