(Best viewed large)Following on from yesterday's post about the roof space in Salts Mill, I thought I'd share this image. It shows the same space when it was a spinning shed. This photo dates back to 1947 and shows the room filled with 16,380 cap spindles. One of the guidebooks to Saltaire says the roof space is 630 feet (192 metres) long. To put that in context, an international standard football pitch is 105 metres. Lit by skylights and crisscrossed with slender metalwork, it's a surprisingly light space. The space as it is now (see yesterday's post) is still evocative of its past, with its stone flags, peeling paintwork and curious hoppers in the walls that were obviously storage spaces for something.
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