S3 Ep 8 - “Don’t knock the bloody thing down!”
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Why did Tim and Kev decide to visit Leigh Spinners Mill?
Hello and welcome to Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure. A project so close to my heart, something that Tim and I have been working on for the past couple of years. We've already delivered two complete series. So that's like, you know, I don't know, dozens of episodes. And we're now into our stride into series three and Look, before we go any further, I should introduce my great, great friend, a lovely man, collaborator, professor of architecture. Well visiting Professor of Architecture at least. Yeah. His name's on the tin. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Tim Ross.
Thank you so much, Kevin. It's really great to be sharing this podcast with everyone in the UK and Ireland for the very first time. Putting together this podcast has been one of the great joys of my life and uh sharing it with you, Kev, is an absolute hoot. So it's been wildly popular in Australia and New Zealand, so it's fabulous to be able to share it with you now. And so strap yourself in, it's quite
an
adventure.
Nicely said. It is. It's what it says on the tin, isn't it? It's a big design adventure, Tim. It's a big design adventure. This podcast is brought to you in collaboration with Reba, the Royal Institute of British Architects, who champion architects and inspire design lovers all over the world. To discover more, search Reba Architecture.
Hello and welcome to our big design adventure. Good day Kev. Good day, Tim. How are you? Mate, I'm Dandy, and it's nice to reminisce about the day today. That you confuse me by saying We're going to a I think it's like a nineteen twenties mill. Outside of Manchester. Why would that be confusing? I've never been to a mill before and never thought about it. You know the curious thing about Australia and Manchester is that We have traditionally called all our bedding, whether it's sheets or pillowcases, is called Manchester. What? Really? Yes, because when all the sheets and cotton came from Manchester back in the day, it would come off the docks. And it just say Manchester on the side and that's what we've traditionally called, you know, even tablecloths and
There'll be emails about this, but I think serviettes and napkins and everything. Anything to do with bedding, yeah. Anything that's made out of cotton we'd call Manchester. So you'd go to the Manchester department at a
No. Yeah. In the department store. Did you have a ceramics department called Stoke on Trend? Oh. But I But I
will tell you is that I don't think I'd ever thought of why we called it Manchester.
Because that was just a name. Well there's a fabric there's a fabric design which is really popular in the seventies called Paisley. And you can buy a Paisley pattern tie. And it's named after The town. In Scotland, where it was all woven. And so it's sort of not unusual, is it? It was in Manchester hundreds of mills. Bringing in raw cotton from India and processing it and from America and processing it and making goods. Yeah, um and all these mills, and there were hundreds of them. That was the centre of well, UK production and obviously then for export too. That is curious though, because I never knew that and it sort of validates the region of Manchester. Because it isn't just one city. I mean Manchester isn't
agglomeration of smaller towns too and it's sort of Greater Manchester is huge and hence its importance in cotton weaving and spinning and milling and carding and all that all that stuff.
And so sometime in the when did it all start
to fall
apart,
you know? Between the wars, funnily enough. Yeah, and I think the mill that you and I visited is one of the last to have been built. So there are quite a few in the north of England in that area which date from the seventeen hundreds. Goes to show you how long this went on for. And those early mills are really hist ancient historic buildings with ancient historic machinery in them. And then there are some from the nineteenth century which are more industrial and then the 20th century ones. But what's fascinating is, of course, that the reason they are where they are is proximity to Liverpool docks, an hour by travel.
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