Saltaire Collection

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• Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

  Derby is a city in the English midlands. An ancient market town, Derby became a leading site for textile production during the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution.
• 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.
• Dresden, Germany

  City in Saxony, Germany
• Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom

  Exerter is a city and the county town of Devon in the south-west of England.
• 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.
• Fairlight Hall, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  A Victorian gothic mansion in its own grounds near Hastings in East Sussex. A home of Sir James Roberts in his later life.
• Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom

  Farnham is a market town in Surrey about 60Km south west of London. Hirst Mill is within the Hirst Wood area in Shiplye, close to the western edge of Saltaire. It is now a set of private residences. The orignal mill was built in the early seventeenth century and operated in various guises until the twentieth century.
• Ferniehurst, Baildon, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Ferniehurst was a grand mansion in Baildon, near Saltaire. It was built as the home of Edward Salt, the third son of Sir Titus, who was a director of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Company Limited. The house was demolished and is now mainly a recreational area.
• Florence, Italy

  Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the region of Tuscany in northern Italy.
• Glasgow, United Kingdom

  A major city in the West of Scotland.
• Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire
• Guise, France

  Guise is a town in the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France. From 1856 it became the site of the Familistery of Guise, a model industrial and residential complex, similar in intent to Saltaire. Titus Salt Junior visited here in 1880.
• Guiseley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Guiseley is a town in the metrpolitan district of Leeds in West Yorkshire.
• Halifax, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large town in West Yorkshire. A major centre for woollen textile production during the nineteenth century. The prominent Crossley family's carpet business was based in Halifax. One of its members, Catherine Crossley, married Titus Salt Junior.
• Hankou, China

  Hankou (or Hankow) is a former city in the Hubei province of China. It is now part of the city of Wuhan.
• Harden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village near Bradford in West Yorkshire
• Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Harrogate is a large spa town in North Yorkshire. Harrogate was the location of a home of Catherine Salt and also of the 'Roberts' Memorial Home for Invalid and Cripple Children' gifted by Sir James Roberts to the Barnardo's organisation.
• Haworth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Haworth is a village near to Keighley in West Yorkshire. Haworth is most famous as being the family home of the literary Brontë sisters. Sir James Roberts, owner of Saltaire and Salts Mill in the early twentieth century, bought Haworth Parsonage and gifted it to the Brontë Society for use as museum.
• Hellifield, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village in West Yorkshire on the outskirts of Haworth. Site of a mill owned by Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.
• Helsinki, Finland

  Finland is the capital and largest city in Finland