Photograph: UNSPUN by Tim Smith How To Use LOREM Lost Mills and Ghost Mansions was made in partnership with Bradford Community Broadcasting and you can find the radio programmes that we made together here. The project was funded by Bradford Council, the National...

            I know that Robert Clough - he had a big mansion, and he donated a Christmas tree for the people of Keighley one year. Well, I won't be swayed on this at all. Particularly on a Friday night, when everybody else had gone home,...

  Photograph: Alan Dix | Sangat Centre at Bradford Industrial Museum   I think what people should do is show an interest in local history because one day (and I hope this never happens) there won’t be people like you, and there won’t be people like me, who...

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  Photographs: Laxtons' state-of-the-art spinning machinery in Baildon by Tim Smith Two years ago [in 2022], I saw this job. And I rang them up and said ‘I’m looking for a job as a textile spinner.’ They interviewed me, and they told me, ‘Oh, this is the machine,...

Photograph: Mark Stevenson | Dalton Mill and Clock Tower 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....

Photograph: Jaz OldhamPhotograph: Harold Heppleston and Colleagues from Kellett Woodman, shared by daughter Patricia CrabtreePhotograph: In Saltaire there were lots and lots of foreign people. There were hundreds from Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, like me. Everyone...

Photograph: 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 Who off the telly at the time....

Photographs:  Bill Morris, former General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union (centre) and Muhammad Rasab (right), one of the leaders in the racial discrimination complaints against John Haggas Ltd, onstage at the Trade Union Congress Annual...

Photograph: Bradford Museums & GalleriesPhotograph: Bradford Museums & GalleriesPhotograph: Jazz Oldham The supervisors were white, whilst the machinists were Asians: Pakistani, Bengali and Indians. All very friendly. People looked out for each other and...

Photograph: Tim Smith | Lifting hanks of wool from a dyeing vat at Harrison Gardner and Company in Bradford. Established in 1901 the firm are dyers for the carpet, hand knitting and hosiery industries.Yorkshire has always been at the centre of England’s first great...