Bowtell Collection

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COL6
Title
Bowtell Collection
Description
Albert Bowtell worked in the accounts department of Salts Mill for 28 years up to its end as a textile mill in 1985. He was very interested in the history of the textiles business and gave illustrated, entertaining talks on the story of Saltaire.

Albert sadly died in 2003 but in 2007 his widow Joyce kindly donated his extensive archive of photographs, original documents, Salts-company objects and newscuttings.
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  • B1-032/3/29: Empty room with benches (1)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows a close up of a white bench with 8 plug sockets and 5 overhead lights.
  • B1-032/3/3: Carding 3 Doffing End
    Small machine in left foreground together with doffing end of worsted carding engine
  • B1-032/3/30: Empty room with benches (2)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows benches against 3 windows. On the first stands a bottle with 2 boxes visible on the third.
  • B1-032/3/31: Empty room in the mill
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with orange coloured walls and a large window to the right. there is a poster of 'Bradford, a surprising place' on the wall next to a drawing on white paper.
  • B1-032/3/32: Empty room with columns (1)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with a number of columns.
  • B1-032/3/33: Empty room with loom rack
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with columns. In the centre stands a loom rack, four tiers high. To the rear are tow blue doors.
  • B1-032/3/34: Empty room with columns (2)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with columns. A blue door is at the rear of the room.
  • B1-032/3/35: Empty room with old machinery (1)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. Machinery is piled together at the front of the photograph. It shows a pattern loom with a Jacquard attachment.
  • B1-032/3/36: Empty room with old machinery (2)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. Machinery is piled together in the middle of the room. It shows a pattern loom with a Jacquard attachment. There is a blue door at the rear of the buiding.
  • B1-032/3/37: Long room with columns (1)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down showing an empty room with columns to the right.
  • B1-032/3/38: Wide room with columns
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down showing an empty room with columns. To the top of the photograph is an orange beam.
  • B1-032/3/39: Empty room with V roof and columns.
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with two columns, two black doors at the rear and a noticeboard with notices to the rear right. There are three windows to the left.
  • B1-032/3/4: Carding 4 Doffing
    3 carding machines in combing shed. Doffing (delivery end) of card
  • B1-032/3/40: Covered area between buildings.
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows a covered passage connecting the original mill building (left) with an extension building (right). There are some red fire buckets on the left wall, a slope leading to the building on the left, a bench in the middle and piles of wood to the right.
  • B1-032/3/41: Basement passageway
    Colour portrait photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows a passageway with brown coloured doors with pipes along the ceiling.
  • B1-032/3/42: Empty room with glass roof
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. To the rear of the photograph is a wooden, glazed office type building. In the front are three wheeled trolleys. A metal machine is to the right of the picture with a set of wooden steps in front of it.
  • B1-032/3/43: Empty room with old equipment
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows dark coloured machinery to the left, centre and right. A cord hangs from the ceiling to the floor. A brown trolley containing some white paper / cloth is in the middle with an empty chair to the right.
  • B1-032/3/44: Old workroom with machinery (3)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. A very dark photograph showing machinery along the right hand side of the room with two rows of white coloured lights suspended from the ceiling.
  • B1-032/3/45: Old workroom with machinery (4)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. The left hand side of the photograph shows machinery with some dark coloured cloth hanging over the side of the first machine. Two blue boxes are at the rear of the picture. A wooden pallet made with three strips of wood is to the right of the first machine.
  • B1-032/3/46: Top room in spinning mill (1)
    Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with a glazed roof. Some large baskets with 'Salts Saltaire' are in the foreground. A man wearing a blue top and pushing a trolley is at the rear of the picture.