Just for completeness, here are a few more shots I took at Bradford Industrial Museum. It was once a small worsted mill, Moorside Mills, built in 1875. In the photo above you can just see the house behind, where the mill manager and his family lived. The buildings were taken over by Bradford Council in 1974 and are used to house displays of textile machinery, steam power, printing equipment, trams and vintage motor vehicles.
The mill produced worsted cloth used for military uniforms during WW1, so the mill was expanded and the clock tower was added as a war memorial in 1919.
The shed that juts out, in the picture above, holds a blacksmith's forge. At weekends it is used for demonstrations of the blacksmith's craft. Visitors are separated from the fire and anvil by a perspex screen, which is why my photo looks a bit misty, but I quite like the effect.
Inside the museum, one whole floor is given over to textile machinery, with the preparation and spinning machines in one large room and weaving looms, of various types and vintages (below) in another.
Definitely worth visiting!
ReplyDeleteI like the view of the mill with the red post box in front making a great contrast.