by Andrew Gill | Aug 16, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
Thanks to the caption on the original photograph, we can be very precise about this factory fire. It happened on the 15th April, 1909 in Huddersfield. Mills such as this, seaside piers and theatres regularly caught fire. Fortunately, we put a lot more effort into fire... 
by Andrew Gill | Aug 9, 2021 | Gallery, Places, The Man on the Clapham Omnibus
This cotton mill could be anywhere in the north west of England but was, in fact, in Burnley. What can’t be seen on the photograph is the noise. We have a museum near us which occasionally fires up just a few looms in a room that would have held hundreds and... 