Bowtell Collection
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- COL6
- Title
- Bowtell Collection
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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. - Associated person or organisation
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Items
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B1-032/5/20: Steam turbine (5) Photograph shows a man wearing a light coloured jacket standing in front of the steam turbine -
B1-032/5/21: Turbine house Photograph shows switchgear down the left handside with a man standing at the rear with his right arm raised. The switchgear is in the turbine house in the centre of the spinning block -
B1-032/5/22: Engineer's shop (1) Photograph shows the inside of an engineer's shop. 8 men are shown in the background. The foreground shows a pile of wheels on the floor. -
B1-032/5/23: Engineer's shop (2) Photograph shows the inside of an engineer's shop. There are machines to the left with 3 piles of wheels in the middle. To the right of the picture are 2 wheels leaning against a machine -
B1-032/5/24: Engineer's shop (3) Photograph shows the inside of an engineer's shop. A man stands in the centre of the photograph facing the camera. A group of men stand to the left working at a bench. To the right are four wheels standing against two cupboards together with two hats and coats -
B1-032/5/25: Joiner's shop Joiner's shop -
B1-032/5/26: Photograph of a painting of the mill (1) Photograph shows a landscape painting of Salts Mill and the surrounding area -
B1-032/5/27: Photograph of a painting of the mill (2) Photograph shows a landscape painting of Salts Mill and the surrounding area leaning against a window -
B1-032/5/28: Salts Mill boardroom Coloured photograph showing a corner of Salts Mill boardroom. Therre are 2 arched windows with a chair positioned between them. A painting hangs by each window. There is a table surrounded by 11 chairs. -
B1-032/5/29: View of mill chimney from the boardroom Photograph shows a view of the mill chimney from an arched window in the boardroom. The top of the chimney is clearly visible whilst the bottom is visible through a net curtain -
B1-032/5/3: Salts Mill offices and Mill from the railway bridge (1) The top of a street lamp is visible in the foreground and some railings can be seen in the lower right of the photograph -
B1-032/5/30: Framed early painting of Salts Mill Close up of an ornately frramed painting of Salts Mill hung on a red wallpapered wall -
B1-032/5/31: Framed early painting of Salts Mill in the boardroom Photograph shows an ornately framed painting of Salts Mill flanked by two other pictures on the wall of the boardroom. The painting is hung above a stone fireplace, in front of which is a table and chairs. -
B1-032/5/32: Painting of sheep shearers and sideboard in the boardroom Close up of a painting of a man shearing sheep with a sheepdog in the lower left. The painting hangs above a wooden sideboard. A coloured rug is also visible -
B1-032/5/33: Close up of the sideboard in the boardroom Close up of the left hand side of the sideboard showing an alpaca -
B1-032/5/34: Empty room with benches (1) Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows benches against 3 windows. A bottle stands in front of the first window, with 2 boxes visible in front of the third -
B1-032/5/35: Empty room in the mill Colour photograph taken after the closure of the mill. It shows an empty room with orange coloured walls nd a large window to the right. There is a poster of 'Bradford, a surprising place' on the wall next to a drawing on some white paper -
B1-032/5/36: Empty room with loom rack Colour photograph showing an empty room with pillars. In the centre stands a loom rack, four tiers high. At the rear are two blue doors -
B1-032/5/37: Empty room with columns (1) Coloured photograph taken after the closure of the mill showing an empty room with a number of columns -
B1-032/5/38: Old workroom with machinery (1) Colour photograph taken after the closure of the mill. The 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 building
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