Saltaire Collection

Item set

Identifier
COL54
Title
Saltaire Collection
Description
The core collection. If an item is not in one of the other collections then it is in this one.
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  • 2021.16: Railway Byways in Yorkshire
    Railway Byways in Yorkshire by R,.N. Redman. Containing information on Shipley Glen Tramway
  • 2021.17: Textile Voices - Mill Life This Century
    Textile Voices - Mill Life This Century - edited by Olive Howarth. Containing photographs and memories of textile workers
  • 2021.18: Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl
    Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl by Maggie Newbery. The story of an East Riding girl who comes to work in a Bradford Mill
  • 2021.19: Bradford As It Was
    Bradford As It Was by Gary Firth - A pictorial survey of old Bradford
  • 2021.22: Saltaire Tales
    Saltaire Tales by Eddie Lawler - Poems by Eddie Lawler with watercoloured pictures by Deborah M. Lawson
  • 2021.23: Regrave's Factories, Truck & Shops Acts
    Regrave's Factories, Truck & Shops Acts by John Thompson and Harold R. Rogers - Relates to industrial working conditions and laws in the 1940s
  • 2021.3: Direktoratet for patent - og Varemoerkevoesenet
    Record of registration of Belwarp name and logo at the international Patents Bureau, Copenhagen in Denmark in 1906 under the name of Sit Titus Salt, Bart, Sons & Company Ltd and records any subsequent updates up to 1926. Document headed : 'Rongeriget Danmark' with 'Belwarp' image pasted onto the page. Reverse side includes typed numbered list including: 1. registree's name and address: 'Sir Titus Salt Baronet, Sons and Company Limited, Fabrikanter, Saltaireved Bradford,England. 2. the overseas registrar's name and address 3. date of original registration in the ledger: 2 January 1906 4. description of the trademark 5. the types of business for which the trademark is registered 6. further remarks The trademark was registered in Lodon on 11 February 1897.The Danish registration was in January 1906 and was renewed in 1912. The company name was changed to Salts (Saltaire) Ltd recorded on 12 January 1926.
  • 2021.5: Swimmimg medal
    Swimming medal inscribed 'Salt Girls High School Shipley' with Salt shield. Reverse side is inscribed 'School Sports - Junior 1932 - J. Cook swimming medal'
  • 2021.6: Salt & Saltaire by Dr. Gary Firth
    Card-backed book: Salt & Saltaire by Dr. Gary Firth. Contains text and photographs on the history of Saltaire
  • 2021.7: Shipley and Windhill by Dr. Gary Firth
    Card-backed book: Shipley and Windhill by Dr. Gary Firth. Contains text and photographs on the history of Shipley and Windhill
  • 2021.8: Salt & Saltaire by W.E. Alderson
    Book - Salt & Saltaire by William Edward Alderson containing text and mainly modern coloured photographs of Saltaire. Information on Dr Alderson in the Foreward.
  • 2022.1: Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' silk scarf
    Silk scarf printed with 'Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' surrounding the Salt Coat of Arms, multiple times
  • 2022.18: Share certificate of the Bradford Cemetery Company
    Share certificate for the Bradford Cemetery Company in the name of Titus Salt of Crow Nest (Halifax). Face value of three pounds and sixpence. Dated May 1852.
  • 2022.19: Yorkshire: Pictorial memories
    A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of Francis Frith and Company. Frith establshed a business in th 1860s to photograph every town and village in Britain and provide them for the public to buy. The book includes views of many places across Yorkshire. It includes two photographs of Saltaire on page 28: the railway station with a train arriving and Salts Mill visible in the background; Saltaire (later Roberts) Park along the promenade with the bandstand visible and two women with a pram in the foreground.
  • 2022.2: Saltaire And Its Founder by Abraham Holroyd
    An account of Titus Salt and the founding of Saltaire
  • 2022.20: Bygone Bradford
    A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of the Bradford Telegraph and Argus newspaper. The book includes views of many events and places in Bradford and the surrounding areas. Includes the following photographs relevant to Saltaire: page 113, the statue of Sir Titus Salt in its original position outside Bradford Town Hall (it is now located in Lister Park in the outskirts of Bradford); page 115, Salts (Saltaire) LImited private fire brigade pictured with their fire engine in 1939; page 127, the Salts Silver Band in the village in 1931.
  • 2022.21: Memories of Bradford: Wonderfully nostalgic images of Bradford people, places and events, 1930 to 1970.
    A book of black and white photographs mainly from the commercial archive of Wood Visual Communications, Bradford. The book includes an 'At work' section which has several images of people involved in various parts of the textiles industry.
  • 2022.22: Gordon Terrace, Saltaire and the Saltaire Picture House
    A wooden picture frame containing two photographic picture postcards of scenes from Saltaire. The upper postcard shows Gordon Terrace, a parade of shops along the main road at the top of Saltaire; some shops have awnings extended. The second postcard shows the Saltaire Picture House, now demolished.
  • 2022.4: Bookbinding
    'The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks : Bookbinding' by Douglas Cockerell, with text and drawings
  • 2022.5: Wallpaper : Its History, Design and Use
    Wallpaper : Its History, Design and Use by Phyllis Ackerman - Includes text and black and white illustrations