Items

• 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
• West Riding County Council

  The council was the county-level administrative body that contained Shipley and Saltaire. It was abolished in 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation. Much of its responsibilities passed to the new West Yorkshire County Council which functioned until 1986.
• Wilkinson, Tom

  Tom Wilkinson was the head of the design office for Salts (Saltaire) Limited, at Salts Mill, from the 1950s. Tom kindly donated a number of his technical design books to the Saltaire Collection. These included a work-book used to develop new designs.
• Wilson, Samuel

  Samuel Wilson was Titus Salt's Cashier. He spoke at the major occasion in St George's Hall, Bradford in 1865, when Sir Titus was presented with the famous bust which now stands in hte entrance of Saltaire United Reformed Church.
• Woods, Clive

  Clive Woods gave up his life as a teacher and moved to Saltaire in 1986 to continue his researches on Titus Salt and his model village. He opened a bookshop, worked for a while as a caretaker at Victoria Hall, and became a well-known guide, leading tours around Saltaire. Clive helped found the Village Society and became a vigorous campaigner to preserve Saltaire and its heritage. In the late 1980s he was part of the successful campaign against plans to build a major trunk road through Saltaire. He also worked to get Saltaire listed by English Heritage, work that helped prevent the village from being recklessly changed. In the late 1990s he became a leader of the campaign, supported by the local MP and Bradford Council, to have Saltaire recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. This was awarded in 2001, a success widely hailed as the most important for Saltaire since its foundation 150 years before. Sadly, Clive died in 2007 but his legacy is a Saltaire preserved for the future. The Saltaire Collection is proud to host his archive of research documents, books, leaflets and photographs.
• Wright, Joseph

  Born into very humble circumstances in Idle, Bradford. Basic school education was at the Salt Factory School, Saltaire. Wright went on to study at the University of Heidelberg and eventually became a professor of philology at the University of Oxford and an eminent linguist.
• Yorkshire Observer

  A local newspaper published in Bradford during the early to mid twentieth century.