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Ian Beesley Through the mill
Photographs of the West Yorkshire textiles industry Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley BOBBIN DOFFER, CARRYING HISTORY
Look at this man, how he carries the bobbins So carefully, each hand just so. Here, and here. He’s carrying the jokes and he’s carrying the stories The Bobbin Doffers told each other in the brief rests They took, when the sun from the windows lit the wool in the air. In a kind of practised geometry of balancing. He’s carrying the structure of a lost language, A lost way of thinking, a set of skills and solutions That hung in the air for a while like wool in light, Then faded. Like he’s carrying history. And he can’t see where he’s going, can’t see which way History’s heading. But we can see him. Ian McMillan Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Bobbin doffer
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Ian Beesley Bradford 1977
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Wool warehouses Bradford 1978 Ian Beesley
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Snicket Bradford Ian Beesley
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Saltaire Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Saltaire
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The last warping over-looker
Salts Mill Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Pools win and patterns Salts Mill
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The last loom being removed from
Salts Mill Ian Beesley
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Salts mill 1986 Ian Beesley
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Pin ups Salts Mill 1985 Ian Beesley
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Maintenance men Salts Mill 1985 Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Christmas graffiti Salts mill 1985
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Graffiti lift door Salts Mill 1985 Ian Beesley
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Empty weaving shed Salts Mill
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Ian Beesley Mill clearances Bradford 1970s
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Drummonds mill Bradford Ian Beesley
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Drummonds mill Bradford Ian Beesley
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Lister’s mill Bradford Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Lister’s mill Bradford
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Ian Beesley Spinner Lister’s mill Bradford
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Lister’s mill Bradford Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Black dyke mills Bradford
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Ian Beesley Bobbin liggers Black dyke mills Bradford
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Ian Beesley Bobbin liggers Black dyke mills Bradford
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Black dyke mills Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Bradford conditioning house
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Ian Beesley Bradford conditioning house
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Ian Beesley
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Little Germany Bradford
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Invoices James Ives Mill Guiseley Ian Beesley
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Wool exchange Bradford Ian Beesley
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The last member of the Wool exchange
Bradford Ian Beesley
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Mill graffiti Bradford
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Mill boiler man Bradford Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Burlers & menders Drummond’s Bradford
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Ian Beesley Wool sorters Bradford
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Ian Beesley Wool sorters Bradford
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Ian Beesley Card fettlers Bradford
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Wool scourer Bradford Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Mule spinning frames Bradford
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Ian Beesley Mule spinner Bradford
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Ian Beesley Spinner Bradford
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Ian Beesley Tea break weaving shed Bradford
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Ian Beesley Spinner Bradford
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Ian Beesley Wool warehouseman Bradford
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Ian Beesley Shuttle maker
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Ian Beesley Dixons bobbin mill
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Ian Beesley Dixons bobbin mill
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Dixons bobbin mill Ian Beesley
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Dixons bobbin mill Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Crossley’s mill chimney
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Ian Beesley
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Ian Beesley Moonrise mill dam
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Ian Beesley Dye house Bradford
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Ian Beesley Tunwell mill Bradford
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Ian Beesley Bowling back lane mill Bradford
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Ian Beesley Dean clough mills Halifax
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Ian Beesley Bradford 1977
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