Saltaire Collection

Items

• Hill, Arthur

  Arthur James Hill was a director of Salts (Saltaire) Limited when it was floated on the stock exchange and became a public company in June 1923.
• Hodson, Thomas

  Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson was born in Shipley and was a warehouseman at The Conditioning House in Bradford prior to enlistment in the army during the First World War. Hodson’s Division landed in Le Harve, France in August 1915. They served in front line trenches and several battles, including the Battle of the Somme where Hodson was killed in action on the 29th July 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme and on the Rolls of Honour at Nabs Wood cemetery in Shipley, St Paul’s, and St Peter’s Church in Shipley. Lance Corporal Hodson was born in 1892, son of Tom and Rosa Hodson. His service number was 13083. His medals and memorabilia from World War 1 are The ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ medals (the popular names for The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively) and a ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ which was issued to next of kin of all British and Empire service personnel killed as a result of the war. In addition, a Princess Mary Gift Fund 1914 box was a present for all those serving during Christmas 1914, the box contents included cigarettes and/or chocolate, a photo of Princess Mary and a signed card. These and other items relating to Lance Corporal Hodson are in the Saltaire Collection. In 2017, the Saltaire Collection received a donation of World War One medals belonging to Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson that were found in the cellar of a house in Saltaire. Through local news items and the help of a local historian we were able to trace his relatives who were than reunited with these medals. The family generously decided to leave these in the collection.
• Holroyd, Abraham

  Holroyd wrote a history 'Saltaire and its Founder' in 1873 that was contemporary with the building of Saltaire.
• Hunter, Laura

  Born in Baildon in 1897, Laura Thorpe studied at Salt Girls’ High School before graduating from Liverpool University. She lectured in both Zoology and Biology at the University of North Wales, Bangor and later at the Leicester College of Domestic Science. After gaining the Annie Edison Memorial Scholarship Laura wrote Domestic Pests: What They Are, How To Remove Them, a manual that appealed to both housewives and scientists by offering solutions to everyday problems such as how to get rid of insects, rodents and mould. During the Second World War she focused on public health and nutrition. Her clear, practical advice remains relevant today.
• Illingworth Morris and Company Limited

  Illingworth Morris was a large Textiles business. Between 1957 and 1986 it owned and operated Salts Mill.
• Illingworth, Percy

  Percy Illingworth was the Member of Parliament for Shipley in the early 20th century. He presided at the opening of a new cricket Pavillion for Saltaire Cricket Club that had been funded by Sir James Roberts.
• Ives, John

  John Ives was a joiner, builder, and contractor involved in major projects including Salts Mill, Saltaire housing, and public buildings: - Contracted for masonry, joinery, ironwork, roofing, and slating for Salts Mill in 1852. - Acted as joinery contractor for Salts Mill - Built the first houses and shops in Saltaire around 1853 - Awarded contracts for 80 houses in Saltaire in 1866, including Albert Rd, Shirley St, Katherine St, and Myrtle Place. - Built Saltaire Church (1859), Saltaire School, and other community structures. - Partnered with Benjamin Lapish in the firm Lapish & Ives, securing numerous building contracts. - Built houses on Saltaire Road and Windhill Church, with ongoing collaborations with architects Lockwood and Mawson. - Constructed almshouses, dispensary, and other public buildings, often under competitive tenders. Ives also built many other buildings in the Bradford area, most notably Bradford's large Town Hall designed by Saltaire's architects Lockwood and Mawson. Ives was also a prominent musician and leader of a local choral society in Shipley.
• Iwakura Embassy

  The Iwakura Embassy (or Iwakura Mission) was a diplomatic mission to North America and Europe from 1871 to 1873. Leading Japanese scholars and statesmen visited major industrialised nation to raise the profile of Japan following its period of isolation that had ended in the 1850s. They were also involved in trying to renegotiate trade agreements, and tasked with gathering information on modern industrial, educational, military and political processes and structures. In Autumn 1872 the Iwakura Embassy visited Saltaire as an example of a model industrial village and modern, integrated textile mill. They were interested in the amenities of the village as well as the mill itself.
• J. Parkinson and Son Limited

  Joseph Parkinson founded his engineering company in 1865. The business specialised in making machinery for the booming textile industry.
• Kendall, Harold
• Lockwood and Mawson

  Major company of architects in nineteenth century Bradford. Responsible for key buildings in Bradford, such as teh Town Hall, The Wool Exchange and St George's Hall, and most of Saltaire.
• Lockwood, Henry Francis

  Influential British architect. In 1849 he formed a highly successful partnership with William Mawson. They designed major buildings in Bradford, including St George's Hall and the Wool Exchange. Sir Titus Salt engaged them to desgn his new Salts Milll and its surrounding village of Saltaire, including its many publoic buildings.
• Long, George

  George Long was Head of the Spinning Department at Salts Mill, and an Instructor at the Technical School
• Lund, Annie

  Possibly the most significant event in Annie Lund’s life was the death of her father, a farmer in Brafferton, North Yorkshire, in a shooting accident in 1879 when she was five.  This sudden bereavement brought the Lund family of at least seven children to Manningham in Bradford.  Annie was the youngest daughter but one. In 1886 she was sent to the Salt High School for Girls, a fee-paying school.  She moved from being a pupil to being a teacher in 1893. It was a solid career with a salary starting at £90 a year rising by many increments to £315 a year. in 1921, amply repaying the money her family spent on her education.     She retired in 1933 and died in 1950, leaving £7,800 (about £240,000 in 2026)
• Lupton, Caroline Maria

  Born in Eccleshill and raised in Baildon and Shipley, Maria attended Salt Girls’ High School before joining her mother in London at the age of 15 years. Having changed her name to Marie Studholme and needing a source of income, she joined the chorus of La Cigale at the Lyric Theatre and her long, successful career in musical theatre begun. She played leading and support roles in productions in London, across the country and in the USA. In 1914 she returned briefly to Bradford to perform at the newly opened Alhambra music-hall. Cheering crowds surrounded the theatre, keen to see the star in her hometown. Marie was a renowned beauty and this made her one of the most popular postcard models of her time. But this also brought her trouble, as she was constantly pursued by devoted anonymous admirers. Occasionally, her image was falsely used in advertising campaigns. Marie died in 1930 after an attack of rheumatic fever. She left an estate of £58,303, (approximately £49.5 million in 2026).
• Maddocks, John

  John Maddocks was a Bradford businessman. He was a member of a consortium with James Roberts, Isaac Smith and John Rhodes who purchased Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Limited from the Salt family in 1892/93.
• Magill, Ethel

  Ethel May Magill was a pioneering British physician and radiologist who graduated from the London Medical School for Women in 1906. During World War I, she served as a consultant radiologist at Endell Street Military Hospital, where she specialized in locating shrapnel and developing early physiotherapy techniques. Magill authored an influential textbook on electrotherapy and received an OBE in 1920 for her wartime service. Her career spanned clinical work in North America and Africa before she retired to Kent. She remained an active member of the medical community until her death in 1970.
• Mason, Pamela

  Pamela Mason was the daughter of Isidore Ostrer, one of the owners of Illingworth, Morris and Company Limited who purchased the Salts (Saltaire) Ltd business, including Salts Mill, in the 1950s. Following Isidore's and his brother's Maurice deaths in 1975, Pamela controlled 46% of the shares of Illingworth, Morris. She became involved in a dispute with the 'Yorkshire Directors' over the future of the company. This was well-reported in the press, partly because Pamela Mason was a Hollywood celebrity, having been a chatshow host and the ex-wifr of the leading actor James Mason.
• Messrs Smith, Rhodes, Maddocks and Roberts

  Isaac Smith, John Rhodes, John Maddocks and James Roberts were Bradford businessmen who formed a consortium to purchase the business of Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Co. Limited from the Salt family in 1893. They became directors of the company after the purchase. Smith and Maddocks resigned in 1897 and sold their shares to Roberts. Rhodes resigned in 1902 and also sold his shares to Roberts who then remained as sole owner until 1918.
• Milner, Doris

  Doris was born in Saltaire, around 1912. Her family lived in Constance Street and she attended Albert Road School. Doris married a man who farmed at the site now occupied by Buttershaw School. Doris's father and grandfather both worked in Salts Mill. Doris had a great love for Saltaire and still kept her interest in the area until she died in 2006. Doris kindly donated a collection of 6 books she had received as prizes from the Saltaire Congregational Church for attending Sunday School.