Saltaire Collection

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• Bracknell, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  Bracknell is a town in Berkshire about 25 miles west of London.
• Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large cathedral city in West Yorkshire. During the Industrial Revolution Bradford became a major centre for woollen textile production and rapidly grew in size. Titus Salt's original textile business was based in Bradford. By the 1850s the growth in size had resulted in insanitary, poor living conditions for many workers. This prompted Titus Salt to create Saltaire as a model village for his mill and its workers.
• Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America

  Bridgeport is a port city in the state of Connecticut. The company Sir Titus Salt Bart. and Sons Limited established a factory here in the late nineteenth century to avoid a set of trade tariffs introduced by President McKinley. A main product was 'Seal plush', one of the earliest faux-fur fabrics.
• Brighouse, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Brighouse is a town in the Calderdale area of West Yorkshire in northern England
• Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Capital City of Argentina
• Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

  Chichester is a city in West Sussex in the south of England.
• Chorley, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  Town in Lancashire. Former centre of cotton cloth production drom the industrial revolution to the late twentieth century.
• Clapham, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Clapham is a village in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire.
• Collegno, Italy

  Collegno is a town about 6 miles from Turin in northern Italy. Collegno contains Villagio Leumann, a nineteenth century industrail model village
• Colne, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  Colne is a market town in east Lancashire
• Congregational Sunday School site, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The Sunday School was the last building constructed in Titus Salt’s lifetime, built on the corner of Caroline Street and Victoria Road. Initially, the site was going to be used for a hotel but it was repurposed for the Sunday School. Salt was a keen proponent of Sunday Schools and lived just long enough to see his own completed. Titus and his wife Caroline attended the opening ceremony but were forced to leave early due to his failing health. His grandson, Harold Salt, opened the Sunday School in May 1876. Sir Titus died in December the same year. The Sunday School was demolished in 1973 and is now a council-run car park.
• Copenhagen, Denmark

  Capital city of Denmark
• Crofton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A viilage near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Titus Salt's parents moved the family to a farm at Crofton in 1813 and stayed until 1822.
• Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom

  Cromer is a coastal town in Norfolk, United Kingdom. It became popular in the nineteenth century as a holiday destination.
• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Cross Roads was originally a small village situated between Keighley and Haworth. It was the site of a textile mill operated by Salts (Saltaire) Limited.
• Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Crow Nest was a large house in its own grounds originally buitl in 1775 by the prominent Walker family. It bercame a favourite home of Sir Titus Salt. He first rented it between 1844 and 1858 (during the time Saltaire was starting to be built). Salt eventually bought it from the Walkers in 1867 and live there until his death in 1876.
• Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  Cullercoats is a village on the coast of Northumberland in England. Cullercoats has a good beach and is a popular holiday and day-trip destination. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited the village in 1955.
• Damems, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village in West Yorkshire on the outskirts of Keighley. Site of a mill owned by Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.
• Darlington, County Durham, United Kingdom

  Darlington is a market town in the County of Durham, northern England.
• Dayton, Tennessee, United States of America

  Dayton was the site of large deposits of coal and iron. During the 1880s the Salt family invested heavily in a local coal and iron smelting business, and created a town for its workers. The cost of the investment contributed to the financial problems of the Salts' textile business which eventually led to its being sold in the 1890s. In 1925 Dayton was the location for the famous 'Scopes Monkey Trial' concerning the teaching of evolution in schools.