Gelatine silver print entitled 'Empty Weaving Shed, Salt's Mill, Saltaire' by Ian Beesley. Prodiced for the commission `Through the Mill:, The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs'. 1985-1987'.
Nearly three thousand people thronged the original weaving shed at a banquet to celebrate the opening of Salts' mill in September 1853. It is now an empty shell, abandoned by its former glories.
[Table 35: Through the Mill - The Story of Yorkshire Wool in Photographs, by Ian Beesley and Introduction by Gary Firth]
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- Category:
- Photographs
- Object Number:
- 1991-5061/38
- type:
- silver gelatin print
- credit:
- The National Media Museum, Bradford
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