Mechanical Landscapes

Tag: Textile Mill

  • #221 – Derelict Mills – Part 9 – Albion Mill

    #221 – Derelict Mills – Part 9 – Albion Mill

    It’s weird and slightly perverse how some places that I’ve visited have ended up. The ruin that was Cheadle Bleachworks, a place that looked like it had been carpet bombed, ended up as luxury apartments, while this place, as sturdy and intact a mill as I’ve explored, ended up being demolished not long after I…

  • #220 – Derelict Mills – Part 8 – Griffe Mill

    #220 – Derelict Mills – Part 8 – Griffe Mill

    When you are particularly interested in something, you develop a consciousness for it. Professor Peter Wiseman in his brilliant book ‘The Luck Factor’ writes at length about this phenomena, and how people who believe that they are lucky or unlucky see and do things that back up that conviction – spotting five-pound notes on the…

  • #219 – Derelict Mills – Part 7 Ivy Bank Mill

    #219 – Derelict Mills – Part 7 Ivy Bank Mill

    The diversity of places that I’ve explored has ranged from completely intact places like Pyestock and Fletchers Paper Mill, to stripped out hulks such as Old Lane Mill. But this would suggest that some kind of spectrum of dereliction exists with fully intact at one end and empty shells at the other, when in actual…

  • #218 – Derelict Mills – Part 6 – Westwood Mill

    #218 – Derelict Mills – Part 6 – Westwood Mill

    Sometimes I feel compelled to go and visit places, even if I’m not in the right frame of mind. I’d had my eye on this place for a while, and I needed to visit somewhere to photograph for a nightschool project. Reports on the internet showed it to be pretty stripped out, but with one…

  • #215 – Derelict Mills – Part 4 – Edenwood Mill

    #215 – Derelict Mills – Part 4 – Edenwood Mill

    Success in many fields is all about timing, being in the right place at the right time. Take football. There are numerous players who made decent careers out of not doing a great deal effort wise, but had the seemingly uncanny knack of suddenly coming alive once or twice in a game and ending up…

  • #212 – Derelict Mills – Part 2 Bailey Mill

    #212 – Derelict Mills – Part 2 Bailey Mill

    Sometimes windows of opportunity open and you happen to be in the right place at the right time. This was the case when I explored Bailey Mill in Delph in 2007. I’d seen a couple of report on the place on 28 Days Later, and got in touch with the last person to explore it.…

  • #211 – Derelict Mills – Part 1 Bradshaw Works

    Printing & Steaming Building. Much of the foreground was cleared of buildings in the 1960’s. The buildings here were the Making Up, Stitching & Damping Room, and the Colour and Roller Store Growing up in the magnificent Lancashire town of Bolton, I was surrounded by the derelict and decaying remnants of the towns textile industry.…

  • #175 – The Last Days Of Fernhurst Mill – Return Visit

    #175 – The Last Days Of Fernhurst Mill – Return Visit

    Depending on the circumstances, there are two approaches to exploring old buildings – stealth or high visibility. Dressing in high visibility vest and hard hat makes you look inconspicuous around an abandoned building or demolition site, as that’s what you’d expect people to wear around those places, yes? OK, its not infallible, but for sites where there’s no security,…

  • #69 – Threads

    Sometimes I take a picture and then review it and for some reason just find it interesting. This is one of them. Cheers.

  • #55 – wheels of industry

    I was approached via my main website (www.theviewfromthenorth.org) by a director of a mill in Huddersfield. They’d bought the old Brook Dyeing site and wanted a set of photos for their archives. I agreed on the proviso that they let me photograph their other, working, mill in Huddersfield. They agreed, and I spent an interesting morning…