Saltaire Collection

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Identifier
COL54
Title
Saltaire Collection
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The core collection. If an item is not in one of the other collections then it is in this one.
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  • 2025.67.6: Harry Easy with his colleagues in office
    Harry Easy with his colleagues in office. Harry Easy was the Chair of Shipley Urban District Council.
  • 2025.67.7: Harry Easy with his colleagues and presumed successor
    Harry Easy with his colleagues and presumed successor. Harry Easy was the Chair of Shipley Urban District Council.
  • 2025.67.8: Harry Easy observing a National Safe Driving Award
    Harry Easy in a group observing a medal awarded to a Shipley resident for occupational safe driving, from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents. Harry Easy was the Chair of Shipley Urban District Council.
  • 2025.67.9: Floral display for the Road Safety Campaign
    A floral garden displaying the text 'Royal Safety Campaign', 'Safe Riding' and 'Happy Riding'. It features the triangle emblem of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents from the 1950s. This was during Harry Easy's year as Chair of Shipley Urban District Council.
  • 2025.70: Textile Voices - Mill Life This Century
    Book edited by Olive Howarth and published by Bradford Heritage Recording Unit 1989. Project Co-Ordination and Picture research by Tim Smith. The book includes life story interviews with members of the textile community together with photographs from family albums or by press and commercial photographers. The book charts the history of the textile industry, providing thought-provoking and surprising views from the textile workers themselves. Photographs of Saltaire are featured on pages 25,40,48 & 49
  • 2025.72: Victorian Bradford
    Victorian Bradford - essays in honour of Jack Reynolds edited by DG Wright and JA Jowitt. The contributors to this book all had connections to Jack Reynolds and write about the development of an important industrial city in the nineteenth century. There are many references to Sir Titus Salt and Saltaire and extensive notes are provided throughout.
  • 2025.73: The Great Paternalist Titus Salt & the Growth of Nineteenth Century Bradford
    Book by Jack Reynolds. A study of industrialisation and of its human effects and of the impact of one great entrepreneur - Titus salt
  • 2025.74: Wool City
    A history of the Bradford Textile Industry in the twentieth Century. Includes many references to Saltaire
  • 2025.75: The Future of Salts Mill
    A Feasibility Study by management consultants KMG Thomson McLintock commissioned by City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. The study was commissioned to review the future of the Salts Mill site in 1987. It is a comprehensive study and proposals for redevelopment of the mill. It precedes the purchase of Sats Mill by Jonathan SIlver later in 1987. See also 2025.76 which is the associated appendices to this report.
  • 2025.76: The Future of Salts Mill - Appendices
    Appendices to the main Report by management consultants KMG Thomson McLintock commissioned by City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. The study was commissioned to review the future of the Salts Mill site in 1987. The main report is available as 2025.75. This booklet contains several appendices including terms of reference, potential sources of funding, and costings.
  • 2025.82: Cloth Sample and Badge
    Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Saltaire Cloth Sample and Badge. Light blue piece of woollen cloth with 'Saltaire Made in England' printed on the side. The cloth also has a printed label showing 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd No. G5143. The badge attached to the cloth shows an alpaca with 'Saltaire registered trade mark' underneath
  • 2025.86: Meet me Gwen on Shipley Glen
    A musical score with lyrics of the song 'Meet me Gwen on Shipley Glen'. Music by Jimmy Sutton and lyrics by Reg Bolton. The song is about two young lovers arranging to meet at a specific rock ('Number 9') on Shipley Glen, a green open space near Saltaire. Reg Bolton was a well lnown writer and perfomer of comedic songs.
  • A1-007: Letter from the Church to Titus Salt
    Typewritten Transcript of letter sent to Titus Salt esq by deacons of the Congregational Church, to thank him for the church.
  • A1-011b: Salt family
    An extract from a book titled The Royal Albert Hall. The extract is Chapter 2 The Prince as President. The book is possibly by Ronald Clark, (Ronald William, 1916-1987), published by Hamish Hamilton, London 1958. This books is on the British Library Catalogue 000713041.
  • A1-017: Letter to the Church
    Copy of handwritten letter to the Saltaire Congregational Church from Edward Salt in regards to a water pipe
  • A1-034: The Long Watch
    'The Long Watch' a book on the Sailors' Children Society of Hull : financed by Titus Salt
  • A1-070: Salt family
    Enlarged photograph of Sir Titus Salt
  • A1-071: Salt family
    Enlarged print of Sir Titus Salt
  • A1-072: Lady Caroline Salt
    Enlarged photograph of Lady Caroline Salt
  • A1-079a-b: Memorial service for Catherine Salt
    Memorial service for Catherine Salt (1846-1930) the widow of Titus Salt Junior.

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