Salts Mill and the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, Saltaire
Thursday 2nd April 2015
A return to Yorkshire and a pilgrimage to one of my favourite places from the late Industrial Revolution, Sir Titus Salt's 'Saltaire'. Salt a great philanthropist, made his fortune from fine woollen fabrics manufactured in Bradford. He decided to move his mills and workforce out of Bradford and built his new mills in 1851 and a complete town for his workforce beside the canal and railway. Saltaire is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. There were lots of people visiting, it being the Easter holidays, but I managed to wait and take a shot of the mill and canal without people! The stone work is now very clean, so black and white had to reflect an image of those Victorian dark satanic mills.
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