A Yorkshire mill town

but no ordinary one. Many of you will know the UNESCO World Heritage site of Saltaire. It is a model town built around Salts Mill which would have had its share of smoke and grime in its day so, although Yorkshire sandstone and not red brick, I felt it fit the Dickens' challenge DHT2
"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; ....."

I love Saltaire and today I went specifically to buy a postcard (and get a blip). I tried to find a postcard over the weekend in Bradford but couldn't find any. The ones here at Salts Mill are principally of the art work on display.

This is the ground floor where many art accessories are on sale and many art works displayed, as they are throughout the building, but there are specific galleries upstairs, principally the 1853 Gallery.

I haven't seen the big mural before. It is named Pacific Surf. It is a Hockney and has written on it - for the 1853 Gallery.
The closer image is one of his more familiar Yorkshire wolds paintings. I love all this but it is the building itself that I enjoy the most. So that's what I bought on my postcard, Hockney's version of the mill itself with its rows of model houses around it.

Happy Pancake everybody!