My lockdown project that grew into an epic is finally with the publisher. It is still nameless. It’s an interpretation of British industrialisation, mainly about the 18th century, and a lot about the iron trade. What does it say? It shows how significant collaborative working was – how much came from the workshop floor, and […]

Slightly strange to see physical evidence of a place I’ve known about for a very long time. Some of these fixtures and fittings now being briefly exposed belonged to the famed 19th-century textile-engineers Taylor and Wordsworth. There’s another layer of history beneath that. Somewhere on this site off Water Lane, Holbeck, the earliest textile-machine shop […]