Watir Ali

Watir Ali was a member of the Bangladeshi community in Bradford. he lived with his family near the Studio on Lupton Street until 1999, when they moved closer to the city centre.

He came to Bradford in 1963 and was joined by his wife and 2 sisters in 1986. Mr Ali worked in the textile trade and had a number of jobs in the textile mills in Bradford, until he retired in the 1990s.

Mr Ali worked in the following mills...
1963-1964 Haworth Mill Company LTD
1964-1967 Geo Ackroyd Junior LTD
1967-1967 British Shield
1967-1967 Hayfield Textiles LTD
1967-1978 Thomas Burnley LTD
1978-1979 J Baines and Son
1980-1981 Hayfield Textiles LTD
1982-1983 J Baines and Son
1983-1991 George Ackroyd LTD

Photographic portrait from Manningham’s Belle Vue Studio, subject known. One of approximately 17,000 images held within our archive, dating from the 1950s to the 1970s.

Creator

Tony Walker

Image filename

H.2018.3.14847

Collection

Belle Vue Studio