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Actions	Photograph Albums Showing Textile Workers in the Workplace Remove from selection Add to selection TitlePhotograph Albums Showing Textile Workers in the Workplace ReferenceYA2005.90 CreatorBrownsett, Frank Frank Brownsett was an expert in textile machinery known to have been active in the Lancashire area c 1960. He was an engineer employed by The Shirley Institute, a research foundation established by the cotton industry. Brownsett was a frequent expert witness in court, invited by solicitors' firms to testify about textile machinery and working practices in the textile industry in order to support industrial injury claims. He had particular expertise in the management and removal of cotton dust, and was therefore called upon to testify in cases of Byssinosis. Pickering, John John Pickering was a solictor known to have been active in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool in the the 1980s and 1990s, working at the firm John Pickering and Partners which he established in 1979 in Oldham. He specialised in compensation claims for industrial diseases, such as asbestosis and byssinosis, or brown lung. Pickering retired in 2004. His firm continued to operate under the name The Asbestos Law Partnership (or 'The ALP'). Date c 1960 Scope and ContentFour photograph albums compiled by John Pickering, solicitor, each containing the same set of documentary photographs. The images show machinery and textile manufacturing procesess in Lancashire factories. They were used to support Byssinosis claims. The photographs were taken by Frank Brownsett, an expert in textile machinery, c 1960. Extent2 boxes containing 4 albums Physical descriptionThe photographs and albums are in a good condition. The albums contain 8.5 inch by 6.25 inch photographic prints, black & white, photographic paper. LanguageEnglish Archival historyThese albums were compiled by the donor and were previously stored in the Solicitors practice where he worked. Levelfonds Repository nameScience and Industry Museum SubjectTextile industry, Textile industry, Textile machinery, Textile mill workers Conditions governing accessOpen access. Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions. Related object Collection of sales leaflets, booklets, photographs and weaving samples Includes photographs relating to production and sale of Jacquard machines made by Devoge & Co Ltd. Photographs of machines made by Platt Brothers Ltd Photographs showing equipment used during the process of making cotton textiles, c 1960. Related ArchivesPhotograph of men working in textile industry, taken by unknown photographer, 19311983-5236/198112ObjectPhotographs, 'Open for Business', taken by Magnum Photographers to document the West Yorkshire textile industry, 20142016-50242Object

TitlePhotograph Albums Showing Textile Workers in the Workplace

ReferenceYA2005.90

Date

c 1960

Scope and ContentFour photograph albums compiled by John Pickering, solicitor, each containing the same set of documentary photographs. The images show machinery and textile manufacturing procesess in Lancashire factories. They were used to support Byssinosis claims.
The photographs were taken by Frank Brownsett, an expert in textile machinery, c 1960.

Extent2 boxes containing 4 albums

Physical descriptionThe photographs and albums are in a good condition. The albums contain 8.5 inch by 6.25 inch photographic prints, black & white, photographic paper.

LanguageEnglish

Archival historyThese albums were compiled by the donor and were previously stored in the Solicitors practice where he worked.

Levelfonds

Repository nameScience and Industry Museum

SubjectTextile industry, Textile industry, Textile machinery, Textile mill workers

Conditions governing accessOpen access.

Conditions governing ReproductionCopies may be supplied in accordance with current copyright legislation and Science Museum Group terms and conditions.

Related object

Collection of sales leaflets, booklets, photographs and weaving samples
Includes photographs relating to production and sale of Jacquard machines made by Devoge & Co Ltd.

Photographs of machines made by Platt Brothers Ltd
Photographs showing equipment used during the process of making cotton textiles, c 1960.

Related ArchivesPhotograph of men working in textile industry, taken by unknown photographer, 19311983-5236/198112ObjectPhotographs, 'Open for Business', taken by Magnum Photographers to document the West Yorkshire textile industry, 20142016-50242Object