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17<br />
When I ask about his most<br />
memorable image, I know it’s almost<br />
an impossible question to answer,<br />
but in true Frank style he says, “If I’m<br />
allowed to pick two or three images<br />
just to reflect the agony and ecstasy<br />
of life my most memorable images<br />
are a picture I took of redundant<br />
workers facing a bleak future in 1975,<br />
after it was announced that Empress<br />
cotton mill in Higher Ince, was to<br />
close. I pictured them looking forlorn<br />
between the huge empty cotton<br />
reels pondering their future.<br />
“Another sad one was a picture that I took of the first<br />
miners going back to work just three days after the<br />
underground explosion that killed ten of their colleagues<br />
at Golborne Colliery in March 1979. A happier image was<br />
in the long hot summer of 1976 when Ince children made<br />
the most of the North West Water Authority testing a new<br />
water main to have some cool splashing fun.”<br />
Empress Mill Closure, 1975<br />
Frank took early retirement from his press photographer<br />
job in 2009 and started working on his self-published<br />
books. “I have nine books of photographs from my 42<br />
years on the <strong>Wigan</strong> papers and am presently working<br />
on another book of photographs mainly from the 1960s.<br />
During lockdown I have been busy scanning negatives<br />
and photographs at home. It will probably be late this<br />
year before I can get it published.”<br />
Summer, Ince, 1976<br />
@frankorrellphotography
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