Lost Mills & Ghost Mansions | media wallPhoto by unknown IP Media wall ; Lost Mills & Ghost Mansions media wall ; Search Need Mill Name Confirming by Richard Freeman 14 Burlers and menders at Scott Mills (1948) Photograph: Courtesy of Museums and Galleries, City...
Textiles Today Laxtons have been making worsted and fancy yarns in Yorkshire since they were founded in 1907. After moving much of their manufacturing overseas during the late C20th, they recently brought it all back to the UK with the opening of a...
Changing WaysPhotos by: I could see at that time that the mills were starting to close around Keighley all over the town and I thought ‘I need to be moving on somewhere’ and that’s when I left in 1975 and joined the fire service. Trevor Keighley Weaving...
Time Off Time Off Time Off [In] Saltaire there were lots and lots of foreign people. There were hundreds from Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, like me. Everyone there, in the hostel I stayed in, kept saying, ‘How do you grow spaghetti in Italy?’. So I made it up! We...
Lost Mills Map and Local Area Studies I grew up next to Marriner’s and I actually watched it burn down. It would have been in the ‘70s. I was in my grandma’s house when the fire started ‘cos she lived round the corner. And I watched it burn down stood next to Dr...
