'Lancashire, to which both Liverpool and Manchester belong, is one of the richest counties in England and, apart from London, it is the most populous.' (1957)
Nick Haseltine is an architect and industrial photographer, and this series of books, printed under his Archidustrial moniker, feature his interpretations of our Northern industrial landscape, and are a culmination of his travels and interest in our built history.
Each page of these books contain reproductions of his own architectural screenprints. Printed in vivid colours, these images form an industrial vernacular that anyone who has ventured forth in this landscape will recognise. Here you'll find mills, collieries, refineries, steelworks and dockyards looming from every page, their uses and functions now mostly memories; some converted to apartments and offices, others mothballed or demolished.
Against each image, Nick has sketched in a brief history of the building, and alongside this you'll find a passage from a long out-of-print travel guide that lends each entry a ghost-like, psychgeographical ambience - two periods closing in on each other.
Most Artistic to the Most Utilitarian guides us across the North West of the UK, from Coalbrookdale in the South, to Barrow in Furness in the North.
Size: 195 x 210mm (softback)
Pages: 64
Publisher: Archidustial
