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Jon6D

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Done this one with Vertigo Rod.

The minute I stepped in this Mill I just fell in love with the place.

Once a thriving hub of industry, the textile mill now stands abandoned but still home to hundreds of colour coordinated yarns.
The looms have stood unused for decades and the mill’s machinery is rusting away,
disused since 1980, the mill has been untouched and boxes of yarn lay abandoned on the floor of the building

The amount of machinery and objects left behind is just something you don’t see every day, It’s the kind of stuff you would expect to see in a museum, it's shocking to see that the history was not being preserved, everything was just sitting there, the looms have stood unused for decades and the mill's machinery now rusts away.
I hope they save this place and do sorting with it, it would be such a shame if this place goes to waste.

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It looks like they just went home after a days work and never turned up the following day. The belts are still attached. Nicely done though.
 
Nicely Done Jon, I wonder why the bits of harness were there? I enjoyed it, Thanks

This place has become a dumping ground since it was abandoned, one now finds quite a lot of none textile related items scattered about. Locked up finally when the the price of ferrous scrap was stuck in a very low trough, the location of this place meant that scrapping made no profit. The machinery is not that uncommon if you search around. My wife's family were mill owners in Armley and like all businesses in the 70's and 80's in the area, the floors were full of this type of machinery. It is the main reason why the British industry went to the wall - outdated machinery that nearly bankrupt businesses could not afford to replace, but if they were to compete with the Italian and Asian mills had to be replaced. Most like my late father-in-law wound up the business and paid out the family share holders, rather than loose everything. Sad, but a feature of many British industries over the years - lack of investment in modern machinery when cash was available and then catastrophe when there is no cash to replace to survive!

A very nice set of photographs here - well done!
 
Nicely Done Jon, I wonder why the bits of harness were there? I enjoyed it, Thanks
Probably used horses to pull stuff up the and down the river that powered the mill or to transport wool to and from the mill ?
 
Superb photos of a fantastic place. Enjoyed this visit a lot - especially after what happened just before :D. Brilliant stuff as usual Jon
 
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