David Honeybone, Jonathan Lindh, Jean Sagheddu, Lynette Willoughby, Terry Wragg and Sue Wray
‘That home feeling which has led them to tastefully and neatly decorate their dwellings – a sure sign of social happiness.’
Welcome to the intriguing world of 19 Ada Street where you will find the faint remains of lives lived and generations moved on. The trunk is being packed ready.
Titus designed a model village, to be inhabited by model people, but they weren’t always so compliant. The washing hangs in the yard. A christening gown or a shroud? The prescriptive rules of the conservation team follow well in Titus’s footsteps though.
The wool combers William Crashley and William Horwood lived here with their many spinner children. Mr Milton the milk dealer decorates his mantelshelf with his milk churn lids.
The only trace of Matilda and Alice Ann, Arthur and Hannah, David and Thomas, Mable and Rushton Smith are their baby gowns.
Where have they thriftily reused their fabric scraps?
The pinnies are hanging in the scullery ready for work in the mill.
The Bible and Pilgrims Progress are out ready to read.
The picture of Queen Victoria holds pride of place, but we also worship Titus. Or do we? Did he really have that ‘moral quality of good taste’ so important to Ruskin, or was it just self interest?
The buildings and streets absorbing the lives of the generations as they wear away the seemingly so solid stone.
Wrappings unwrapping the history of the house.
Quotations – Bagarnie’s SALT; John Ruskin lectures – The Crown of Wild Olive; and Nikolaus Pevsner – Yorkshire West Riding
Lynette Willoughby - Artist .... 
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