Joseph Bamforth (unknown)

Here I am at a crumbling mill that was once Bamforth & Co Ltd. This company was started in 1870 by James Bamforth who make two things exported to a waiting, wanting world: countless films and tens of thousands of saucy seaside postcards.

Knowing a hive of innovation had once gone on here it was a little saddening to the see grass in the gutters, trees smothering the brickwork and glassless windows. The building looked a little sorry for itself but once James Bamforth sat at the centre of activity and innovation. I could easily imagine every floor pulsating with work alight with work 120 years ago. I was surprised a developer hadn’t turned it into contemporary soulless apartments.

In the 1980's Dennis Printing Company in Scarborough bought the company which still thrives today.

The links:-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamforth_%26_Co_Ltd

http://bamforthpostcards.co.uk/

http://www.bamforth.0catch.com/

Across from the dilapidating building I saw this pair of knickers which were scrupulously clean….