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Quarry bank mill

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    This is a historic cotton mill, I was slightly impaired by my 2 year old son that I took with me.....

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    The interior was pretty dim, and compositionally I had to work around a lot of safety rails and barriers.

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    Really love #2 & #3 of the first set, but the interior shots are very well done also, considering the handicaps you were dealing with. Love the perspective of last shot in second set. Very well put together series Richard.
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    Sorry, double posted??????
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    wonderful the way its been preserved. absolutely none of our once historic mills has been preserved as it operated. good job.
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    very cool set Richard, I really like the perspectives and the pp work here. If I had to pick favourites I would say #1 & #2 in post 1 and #2 & #4 in post 2.
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    Looks like an interesting place to poke around in. My favs are the last one and the second one in the first post. Great stuff!
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    Wonderful set. As WD said, it looks like it has been well preserved. Love the perspective on the last one.

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    Thanks everyone,

    The National Trust do a fairly good job of looking after it and maintaining the machinery. I fact a lot of the machinery still runs today.

    I hope to go back on my own at some point and get some more shots, a river runs down the back of the mill which should make some good shots.

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    Nice work Richard. I particularly like 1, 4 and 5.
    1, captures the cold functionality of the machinery and looks great in b&w.
    4, the colours and lighting are really nice in this and it's curiously alluring. it's almost like it shouldn't be there.
    5, a nice composition really capturing the meagreness of the labourer's home. I'm glad you chose b&w for this. The lack of personal momentos and stark upright chairs show it to be a cold environment, almost puritan but this is juxtaposed against the fire which would have brought out the cheer and kept the family warm.

    Funny how our once dark satanic mills are such a tourist attraction now. I quite like mills and industry as theme as in another guise I've studied the history of this and a theme also being from the north I still have memories of all those chimneys that used to be everywhere when I was a kid and now you're hard-pushed to find any. A bygone era. Still I think you've sparked an idea in me to see what I can discover.

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