Created in collaboration with Graham Dews. Bill's work is mostly at the left-hand end.
A community mural in Barton Hill, Bristol. It includes historical and futuristic visions of the area. The close-up image shows the Great Western Cotton Mill (1838-1968) by the Feeder Canal, and the cotton-workers, mostly women and children, who campaigned for better employment conditions in the 1890s.
3m x 20m
Acrylic and spray-can paint. Finished with graffiti-proof varnish.
A community mural in Barton Hill, Bristol. It includes historical and futuristic visions of the area. The close-up image shows the Great Western Cotton Mill (1838-1968) by the Feeder Canal, and the cotton-workers, mostly women and children, who campaigned for better employment conditions in the 1890s.
3m x 20m
Acrylic and spray-can paint. Finished with graffiti-proof varnish.
the whole mural in situ
The left-hand end of the mural: Barton Hill's past: the Great Western Cotton Mill by the Feeder Canal, Eddie Hapgood, and 1950s demolition. Right: Barton Hill 'by the sea' dream.
Great Western Cotton Mill workers strike, the Feeder Canal, Eddie Hapgood (Arsenal &England captain), Barton Hill rhubarb
Great Western Cotton Mill women and children workers strike for labour rights 1892. The mill next to the Feeder Canal.
The Great Western Cotton Mill women and children workers strike for labour rights 1892. And Barton Hill ruhubarb.
