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          Photo: Bradford Museums and Galleries Cliffe Castle, Keighley, view from the Flower Garden with Signor Eugster de la Deheza, Ricardo Vines and Henry Isaac Butterfield (seated) c. 1890 I know that Robert Clough - he had a big mansion,...

  Sangat Centre at Bradford Industrial Museum Photography by Alan Dix 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 have a...

  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 state-of-the-art new...

Photos 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. Automation Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur...

[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 went to [the] shop. We...

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. Which was...

In the 1970’s, unions demanded an increase of 15-20% in salaries and in 1974 the salaries went up from £20-25 to £70-75. In 1979, Thatcher got rid of the unions. She said higher salaries were causing inflation and that the maximum wage increase could be 5%. I got a...

The supervisors were white, whilst the machinists were Asians: Pakistani, Bengali and Indians. All very friendly. People looked out for each other and helped new ones get settled. This has changed. AD: How many people worked there? LM: 80-100 I should think, ‘cause...

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Photograph: UNSPUN by Tim Smith Photograph: Workers of Salts Mill from Eileen Mellor The Sangat Centre at Bradford Industrial Museum Northern Broadside did theatre productions in the derelict parts of the mill. When I was in there, I was thinking, 'I wonder if this is...