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A BANNER produced by a Bradford-born photographer to celebrate our essential workers and volunteers during the coronavirus crisis has gone on display in a city hospital. Ian Beesley and his team, including poet Ian McMillan, have produced colour lockdown banners to celebrate the dedication of NHS and key workers during the pandemic. The first banner produced, in honour of the NHS, features the slogan; Forever In The Heart of the Nation - Our NHS - All for One and One for All . It has gone on display in the main concourse at Bradford Royal Infirmary after it was donated to the hospital by Mr Beesley.
THE country s first swimming pool which opened at an historic Bradford school has been recalled. Wapping Road School opened in 1877 and was the first school in the country to have its own swimming pool. It later played a central role in Margaret and Rachel McMillan’s efforts to improve conditions of children in the country’s schools. The pool, measuring 14 metres by five metres, was used by children from schools across the Bradford district who were bussed into Wapping to learn to swim. Wapping School aimed to cater for the educational needs of a close-knit but poor neighbourhood and went on to receive commendation from HM Inspector of Schools.
SOME of the Christmas celebrations by people working in district mills of yesteryear have been recalled by a Bradford photographer. Ian Beesley has shared his collection of festive images of people from mills, across the Bradford district from the 1970s and 80s. He would visit these workplaces around Christmas time that he would regularly capture the rest of the year, to see them in all of their festive glory.
Festive high jinx captured by Ian Beesley The images include Yuletide scenes at tinsel-clad Salts Mill in Saltaire and Drummond Mill in Lumb Lane in Manningham. He has also included a couple of festive shots of workers at the Tetley s factory in Leeds.
SOME of the weird and wonderful job titles of yesteryear have been recalled by a Bradford photographer. Ian Beesley has shared his collection of images of people carrying out jobs from a bygone age, from sites including mills, across the Bradford district from the 1970s and 80s.
A Bobbin Doffer How many of the following jobs, which were carried out in decades gone by do you recognise by their title alone? They are: carders, casters combers, fettlers, doffers, liggers, tatlers, fitters, burlers, menders, sorters, weavers, spinners, porers, corers, patternmakers, stampers, mulespinners, winders, dyers, bleachers, scourers, warpers, plate layers, roadrunners, capsteamers, tip stretchers, hood turners, fitters, balers, packers and quenchers.