Places
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- Places
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- Names of places associated with an item, such as the place of creation, or of use.
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Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom A village just outside Halifax in West Yorkshire. Location of Crows Nest, a favourite home of Sir Titus Salt which was originally owned by the Walker family. -
Damems, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Village in West Yorkshire on the outskirts of Keighley. Site of a mill owned by Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. -
Dining Hall building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom The Dining Hall was the very first public building in Saltaire, completed in 1854. The Dining Hall served many purposes during the early years of Saltaire. In addition to serving 600 breakfasts and 700 dinners every day, it doubled as a school for ‘half-timers’, children who would work in the mill during the morning, then attend school in the afternoon. It also served as a meeting hall, library, reading room and a venue for religious services, public lectures and other meetings. As Saltaire grew, these functions were gradually moved to purpose-built buildings including: the Salt Schools on Victoria Road, the Saltaire Club and Institute, the Congregational Church and the Methodist Chapel. Today, the Dining Hall is owned by Shipley College and is known as the Mill Building. A major refurbishment and conversion in 1998 modified the interior to make it suitable for lessons, but the changes are entirely reversible. -
Exhibition Building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom The Exhibition Building opened in 1887, built by Titus Salt Junior, Sir Titus’s youngest son, in memory of his father. The building costs were supposed to be covered by the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee held in Saltaire in 1887, but this failed to raise the required sum. The Exhibition Building was built to house the School of Art and Science. This quickly became Shipley Technical School (incorporating the School of Art). These schools eventually went on to become Shipley College, a further education college and important institution in Saltaire today which occupies several of the original buildings. The Saltaire Collection is housed inside the Exhibition Building and can be visited by appointment. -
Harden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Village near Bradford in West Yorkshire -
Hirst Wood, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Hirst Wood was a large estate of land on the westernmost edge of Shipley, adjacent to Saltaire.