Post 15

The next in my series of blogs based around photographs of a mill here in Bradford mainly focuses on what the redevelopment site is being redeveloped for.

During the 1980s, thanks to the policies of the Margaret Thatcher government, there was a significant change in the British economy, with a move away from the old industrialised economy that we were reliant on to a "service" economy, such as services and businesses like LIDL, a smaller-sized supermarket chain. This photo is one of the photos in this selection that represents this.

In this photo, the larger chimney denotes that for many socialists and Northern employers, one day industrialisation will return and triumph over the shadow left by greedy capitalist corporations like LIDL. However, the fact that the mill and its cooling tower are further away from the camera than the LIDL store, to me, means that the old industrialised businesses are in the past, with capitalism now here to stay.