Saltaire Collection

Items

• 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
• Sayner, Ruby

  Born in 1897, Ruby was one of nine children living in Titus Street, Saltaire. She left school at thirteen to work at Henry Mason’s Mill in Shipley. During the First World War she was one of only two people from Shipley to join the Women’s Land Army. She trained at Esholt Hall before working on farms nationwide to support Britain’s food supply. She served again in the Second World War, working night shifts as an A.R.P. Warden before returning to her job as a weft clerk. Ruby’s passion for cricket saw  her playing for Saltaire and Blythwick Ladies. She was coached by England bowler Sidney Barnes and represented Yorkshire at Headingley in Leeds and Bradford Park Avenue.
• Sharp, Dorothy

  Over 7,000 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. Sons 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.
• Tennant, Emily

  Emily was born in Baildon to James Tennant and Elizabeth Willis. Emily began work in Saltaire Mill in Octber 1901 aged just 14. She worked in the spinning department until 1936 and then as a cleaner for a further 25 years in the engine room and later in the yarn office. In 1953 Emily received a Long Service Certificate from Salts (Saltaire) Ltd in recognition of her 50 years service. From 1911 Emily lived with her parents and sister in Shipley and died in 1974 aged 87 and was buried in Nab Wood Cemetery, Shipley.
• 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.
• W. J. Morley & Son
• Walker, Sarah Anne

  Sarah’s career began at Salts Girls High School, where she was both a pupil and a teacher. Her academic success led to a scholarship at the Maria Grey Training College followed by a distinguished career at Southlands College, becoming Vice Principal. Sarah later went on to become Principal of Darlington Training College championing Frobelian and Montessori teaching. She opended one of the first open air nursery schools in the country. Sarah advocated improved teacher training, nursery education and the advancement of women both through her work and membership of local and national organisations. Her legacy continues today via student scholarships and grants.