'Lister's Pride', Lister's Mill, Bradford

Made:
1987 in Saltaire
photographer:
Ian Beesley

Ian Beesley/Science Museum Group
© Ian Beesley

Gelatine silver reproduction print entitled ''Lister's Pride', Lister's Mill, Bradford' by Ian Beesley. Produced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'.1985-1987'.

This is the chimney of Lister's Mill, Bradford, an enormous worsted and silk manufactory originally with a total floor space of 26 acres. Its owner, Samuel Cunliffe Lister, had prospered as a result of his invention of the first effective woolcombing machine in 1845. The chimney, known as Lister's Pride, is 255 feet (78 feet) high and built in 1873 in the style of an Italian campanile or bell tower.

[Table 40: Through the Mill - The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs, by Ian Beesley and Introduction by Gary Firth]

Details

Category:
Photographs
Object Number:
1991-5061/131
Measurements:
overall: 505 mm x 405 mm
type:
silver gelatin print
taxonomy:
  • derivative object
  • copy - derivative object
credit:
The National Media Museum, Bradford