Sunny Bank Mills Heritage Open Day.

Sunny Bank Mills Heritage Open Day.

This event took place just yards from my home ( Not Mark's!) on the heritage open weekend. The place was formally introduced to the visitor but created a very special occasion for local former mill-workers who were able to re-enter the site after many years.  The mill reminds me very much of a scaled down version of Jonathan Silver's Salt's Mill in its early years, and the owner's, who are the seventh generation of the founder, are keen to follow this amalgam of Industry, the Arts, Commerce, and Heritage. An excellent Art Exhibition filled one superbly restored area, and many folk left feeling that it would be great to be involved with all the positivity and ambition on parade.

 

Woodbine.

Sunny Bank Mills Heritage Open Day

Sunny Bank Mills is just a few yards from my home in Farsley and will be open under the heritage open day scheme on the 7/8th. Sept. An art exhibition entitled 'Five Northern Artists' is part of the occasion as well, though this remains open on the Sunday. Details are here:
www.sunnybankmills.co.uk/events.php

English Heritage

Thanks Rebecca...the programme on English Heritage BBC2 was very interesting....(it's also been reviewed by Bryan Appleyard in the Sunday Times 'Culture' section 26/04/09...I'll let you all read it).....in relation to EH endorsing a particular manufacturer of repro chimneypieces, it seems quite appropriate that they are moving into the property business....it's a kind of strategic move that fits neatly with F Jameson's 'cultural logic of late Capitalism' don't you think? And we wouldn't want all those Country Houses to end up like Sutton Scarsdale would we?
(also an EH property....shown here..)
What's also interesting is the way that EH vigorously applies its own historical (and insitutionally informed) logic to 'recreate' the past....a potent example of how 'taste' is equally complicit in historical narratives don't you think?....
Anyway, I can't wait for next week's programme - it's the turn of the 1960s Sheffield concrete high rise to be 'saved'....do you remember the debacle about the Smithson's 'Robin Hood Gardens' (built 1972) that the great and the good tried to get Listed?.....
.........I agree that as a building it is kind of sublime, but as the residents suggested, it's also rather a pain in the butt as an experiment in social engineering.........what do you think....

Mark