Items

• Saltaire Congregational Church

  Titus Salt was a member of the non-conformist Congregational Church. He commisioned an elaborate church building which was built opposite Salts Mill. Since 1859 it has been the home of the Saltaire Congregational Church and its successor organisation the United Reformed Church.
• Saltaire Cricket Club

  Saltaire Cricket Club was founded in 1869 and still operates today. It's home has always been Roberts (orginally Saltaire) Park where it has a scenic pitch and pavillion with a backdrop of the River Aire, Salts Mill and the United Reformed Church. Among its more famous players was the England bowler Sydney Barnes who played for the club between 1915 and 1925 and helped Saltaire win the Bradford League three times. Jim Laker, the outstanding England spin bowler of the 1950s, lived in Shipley, attended the Salt High School and played for the Cricket Club in the late 1930s. The club remains very active today playing in the Aire & Wharefdale Senior Cricket League.
• Saltaire Learning

  Saltaire Learning was a group of interested parties from Saltaire and the wider Bradford area and from the City of Bradford Metroplitan District Council brought together to act on the recommendations of a report on the educational potential of Saltaire (see 2018.60.1).
• Saltaire Memories Group

  Voluntary group active in Saltaire in late twentieeth century recording the memories of residents of the village and workers at Salts Mill
• Saltaire Methodist Church

  The Church is located in Saltaire on land originally donated by Titus Salt (who was not a Methodist). The original methodist chapel was replaced by the current building in the late twentieth century.
• Saltaire Mills Male Voice Choir

  A choir organised from the workers at Salts Mill.
• Saltaire Philharmonic Society

  An amateur musical society based in Saltaire in the early twentieth century.
• Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.

  From 1923, the successor company to Sir Titus Salt Bart. and Sons Co. Ltd. A consortium of businessmen bought the business from Sir James Roberts in 1918. The company was floated on the stock exchange and changed its name in 1923.
• Salts Mill Fire Brigade

  The in-house fire-fighting team in Salts Mill
• Sharp, Dorothy

  Over 6,000 Items make up the Saltaire Collection today and it all started with one person, Dorothy Sharp. Dorothy came to Saltaire in 1984 and was employed temporarily at Shipley Library, then located in Victoria Hall. Her first job was to sift through the local history collection to find materials suitable for schoolchildren. Later in 1984 Dorothy moved to nearby Shipley College as an assistant librarian and developed her interest in Saltaire's history. In 1987/88 Dorothy helped set up the 'Saltaire Resouce Base' - to support visiting schools - in the reopened Salts Mill, now a business, leisure and art centre being developed by local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver. Dorothy became known locally as someone who was interested in collecting and preserving materials to do with Saltaire. And so the donations came in, and the Saltaire Collection (as it is called now) was born and began to grow!
• Shipley College

  Shipley College is a college of further and adult education based in several buildings in Saltaire. Opening in 1969, it was a successor to the Technical School based in the Exhibition Building. As well as this building the College also uses the former Salt High School and Dining Hall premises on Victoria Road, parts of Victoria Hall, and the new, purpose-built Jonathan Silver Building on Exhibition Road.
• Shipley Education Committee

  The local organisation responsible for overseeing the provision of education in the Shipley area, which included Saltaire. Succeeded the Shipley Schools Board.
• Shipley Times and Express

  A local newspaper published in Shipley
• Shipley Urban District Council

  Shipley Urban District Council was the local authority for the Shipley area, including Saltaire, from 1895. In 1974 it was abolished in a reorganisation of local government and Shipley became administered as part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council.
• Silver, Jonathan

  Jonathan Silver was a Bradford-born entrepreneur who bought the vacant Salts Mill in 1987. He led the regeneration of the Mill into a thriving commercial, retail, leisure and artistic centre.
• Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited

  Salts Mill was originally owned and operated by Titus Salt, Sons & Company. In 1869 Titus Salt was awarded a baronetcy, and the company was renamed Sir Titus Salt Bart. and Company Limited. Although there was a change of ownership in 1893 and again in 1918 the name was retained until 1923 when the owning company was floated on the stock exchange as Salts (Saltaire) Limited.
• Sir Titus Salt's Hospital

  Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital was opened in Saltaire in September 1868 and provided crucial medical help many decades before the foundation of the National Health Service.
• Smith, Isaac

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

  After Saltaire had been built, additional school places were required. A School of Art and Science was built at the edge of the village was completed in 1887. It became the Technical School, and contained a School of Art. Later known as the Institute of Technical Education and is now part of Shipley College.
• Townsend, Hattie

  Hattie was a well-known local historian, a playwright, producer and sometime Saltaire guide.She wrote several plays about the history of Saltaire, and their scripts and other items have been donated to the Saltaire Collection.