Posts Tagged ‘Barbour’
I received a phone call on Saturday afternoon that Hilden Mill was on fire. The five story listed building that towered over the Lagan walk way was engulfed in flames. The factory has been on the Hilden site for hundreds of years and it is a very sad demise. Once the...
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In Lisburn's Market Square is the statue to one of Britain’s war heroes who upheld the status quo of British rule in India. Having served several wars between 1839-1857 Brigadier General John Nicholson died trying to retake the Lahore Gate. Footage of Wallace’s Fountain from 1872 just yards away. Under the Hillsborough...
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As the final preparations for the Through the Mill Exhibition fall in to place a number of people have contacted me about photographing artifacts they have gathered after the mill's closure. This collection of documents date from the 1920s and early 1930s and photographs don't do justice to just how...
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Finding windows in the Hilden Mill that hadn't been broken was actually quite a challenge. There is obviously something attractive about breaking an old window that I just don't get or perhaps the breakages are caused by nature growing through the frames putting pressure on the ageing panes. The range of...
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