I’ve been thoroughly enjoying my time digging through The Harris Museum and Art Galleries’ collection of archive photographs looking at Preston’s once lively industrial textile heritage. It is the images of demolition and decline that fascinate me the most. The demise of our once booming cotton industry, which helped shape the fabric of the North. Now taken over by supermarkets, flat blocks and derelict mill sites. Horrockses Yard Works of Preston is no exception - once one of the largest cotton manufactures in the UK, the mill now houses a retail complex know as Queens Shopping Park, Horrockses Quarter. The destruction of the huge site is still taking place today making way for yet another popular supermarket, Aldi. With my archive images of the mill documented, I am keen to head to the site to see what has, and is, becoming of Horrockses’ Mill…. To be continued
Take a look at Blog Preston for more on Horrockses: http://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2015/01/a-nostalgic-journey-around-the-former-horrocks-yard-works-in-preston/
