Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: UNKNOWN
Event Date: 1959-11-17
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.008968

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: England / Industry / [illeg.] / Daily Herald; typed label: DAILY HERALD, LONDON 17.11.59 / BROILERS IN A COTTON MILL / At the Haughton Dale Mill, Denton , Lancs, thousands / of chickens are reared alongside spinning mules / and weaving sheds. The mill workers carry on with / their own jobs while elsewhere in the same mill / the ‘broilers’ are produced. The ‘broiler’ / industry has grown to large proportions in Britain / and millions of chickens are produced each yr for / the table.; stamped: CREDIT: / BLACK STAR / PICTURES. / CLIFFORDS INN, / LONDON; typed label: OPS Cotton workers tend their spinning mules in the / mill as the chickens are reared in another room.; stamped: Credit: [star shape] / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YORK

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: ENGLAND / INDUSTRY - LIQUOR
Retouching: N