Manningham Mills, Bradford
Manningham Mills, a symbol of the last century's industrial power, is now to become part of Bradford's renaissance as an exhibition at the city's Cartwright Hall in Lister Park shows.
Many different kinds of textile mill were built during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, some simple and functional, others ornate and imposing. The first mills were in rural settings, (he last were urban not only in their settings, hut in their physical presence and symbolism, the biggest of them dominating the local scene. They figure as prominently now in articles and books on architecture as they do in articles and books on economic history or industrial archaeology.