
Smith Bulmer’s Mill in Holmfield, Halifax, pictured in the late 1960s or early 1970s. I had a holiday job there once, as – what used to be known as – a “bobbin ligger”: sorting out a mountain of old bobbins into pointless piles.


Smith Bulmer’s Mill in Holmfield, Halifax, pictured in the late 1960s or early 1970s. I had a holiday job there once, as – what used to be known as – a “bobbin ligger”: sorting out a mountain of old bobbins into pointless piles.