Souvenir ornamental 3 handled china mug decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Plan of Saltaire
3 handled cup ornament: base and back view
Small China vase with transfer of Sir Titus Salt Bart's crest, and text on rear, 'Roman Urn from original in Hospitium found at York'
Salt, Titus, Sir: Portrait photograph of Titus Salt in later life
Small ornamental souvenier jug decorated with a view of a valley with a stream running through it. Above this its given the title in the Glen Saltaire.
Shipley Glen, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Shipley Glen, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Switchback rollercoaster on Shipley Glen
Small souvenir vase with 5 handles decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
Small China souvenier ornament loving cup decorated with a coat of arms and the word Saltaire underneath.
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, United Kingdom
Silver Jubilee (George V) pottery cup, decorated with transfers of the King and Queen, in roundals on the front above a map of the world on the front, and 'Presented by The Shipley Education Committee, 6th May 1935' on rear
China mug with decorative sprays of flowers, inscribed 'Evelyn Moualt [Moult?], Born April 13th 1908 at 26 Fanny Street, Saltaire
2018.26: China sugar bowl or conserve dish
China sugar bowl or conserve dish with lid marked 'A present from Saltaire' in gold.
China sugar bowl or conserve dish: bowl and saucer front view
China sugar bowl or conserve dish: bowl and saucer top view
China sugar bowl or conserve dish: top view of lid
China sugar bowl or conserve dish: inside view of lid
China ornament decorated with a bird on one sidge and the words 'A gift from Saltaire' in black lettering.
Small china cup and saucer decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
Saltaire China cup and saucer: front view
Saltaire China cup and saucer: back view
Saltaire China cup and saucer: base view
China salt cellar decorated with the Saltaire crest and the words Saltaire underneath
Teapot, taken to Dayton as a wedding gift for Percival and Eva (nee Hanson) Johnson. Percy was involved in the financial management of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company set up by the directors of Sir Titus Salt (Bart), Sons and Co Ltd. Eva was the youngest daughter of William Hanson, the head of the engineering department at Salts Mill. The Saltaire historians Dave Shaw and David King visitied Dayton to research its history and were given the teapot to to give to Eva's great-nephew Donald Hanson, who had been the chair of Illingworth, Morris the last owners of Salts Mill as a working textiles business. Donald donated the teapot to the collection, as he considered it 'a known 19th century artefact that binds the communities of Saltaire & Dayton'.
Dayton Coal and Iron Company Limited - Blast furnace
Dayton, Tennessee, United States of America
No copyright restrictions. Please acknowledge the work's author (if known) and the item's source
To view the full story please contact the Saltaire Collection
In the 1860s, William Hanson moved to Saltaire to work as a fitter at Salts Mill. Sir Titus Salt valued William's engineering skills highly and eventually promoted him to head of the Engineering department for the Mill. William Hanson’s youngest daughter Eva became a school teacher in Saltaire. She was engaged to Percy Johnson, a senior book-keeper at Salts Mill. Around 1884 Percy travelled to Dayton, Tennessee with Titus Salt Junior and Charles Stead to oversee the finances of the Dayton Coal and Iron company that they had founded in 1883. Eva travelled to Dayton to marry Percy Johnson in 1885 and among the wedding gifts that went with her was a teapot. Percy and Eva remained in the United States and eventually settled in Canada. Back in Britain, Eva's grand-nephew Donald Hanson rose through the ranks of the textiles giant Illingworth, Morris that purchased the Salt business in 1958. Donald eventually became chair and joint chief executive for Illingworth, Morris in 1981. In May 2012 Saltaire Historians Dave Shaw and David King were invited to visit Dayton, and Donald requested that they enquire about his great aunt and uncle to find out more about their time in Dayton. Donald had many fond memories of Aunt Eva’s visits back to Yorkshire with gifts of American toys that could not be found here. In Dayton, Shaw and King contacted Pat Guffey, County Historian for Rhea County, and he had an immediate answer ‘Percival knew my great grandparents and presented them with a teapot brought from England, when he finally left Dayton’ – asking ‘would you like to have it, to give to Mr. Hanson’. The teapot was brought back to Saltaire where it was presented to Donald, who then donated it to the Saltaire Collection. The Saltaire Collection is very grateful to Dave Shaw and David King, for this wonderful item and its story.
French Public Museum 'The Familistere at Guise'
The front page and an inside page from the 'Familistere 'Book of Visitors'' showing the entry for 'Titus Salt 1880', that is for Titus Salt Junior. The copy is from a French Public Museum 'The Familistere at Guise': The Familistere was a nineteenth century self-contained housing complex that promoted social cooperation among its residents. It is now a museum.
Booklet 'Lotherton Hall' by Leeds Museums and Galleries. The Hall has some furniture owned by the Salt Family and originally at Milner Field.
Milner Field, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
A booklet on the history of the Derwent Valley Textile Mills. Produced from original in: Industrial Archaeology Review Vol. XVI, Number 1, Autumn 1993
2016.6: Hawsons- 150 years - and Counting
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Hawsons- 150 years - and Counting by Richard Frost-2005- The story of a Sheffield Chartered Accountants firm
Ring-bound folder on the Aire Valley Road enquiry: 1984-1996
The Auction house described the salver as a ' George III Silver presentation Salver by David Bell [small DB silver mark], London [sheild silver mark] 1761 [F silver mark] of circular form with a gadrooned and shell border, raised on three scroll feet, later presentation inscription and floral engraved field diameter 30 cm, weight 27oz.
Silver salver for Samuel Wilson: Detail view
Silver salver for Samuel Wilson: Full view
Hand-drawn copy of a plan of Saltaire village and mill, based on late 19th century drawing. Undated.
2018.13: Aerial photograph of Saltaire village
Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Coat of arms
Research copy of an Aerial photograph of Saltaire village. The photograph is taken from the the junction in Shipley, where the tram depot (now the Hop) was located and looking towards the Mill in the distance.
Poster for 'The Silentman', a play by Ian Byfield, produced by the Saltaire Youth Theatre, mid-late 20th century.
2018.16: Mr G Armstrong, Long Service Certificate
Mr G Armstrong, Long Service Certificate
'Coronation Year The Yorkshire Observer Roll of Honour' Long Service Certificate awarded to Mr G Armstrong, for employment at Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, from 1907 to Coronation Day, 1953.
Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
4 Commemorative plates from Saltaire Weslyan Church 1901
Drawing of original Saltaire Methodist Church
Methodist Church building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Methodist Church building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Original Methodist Church
Commemorative plates celebrating different occations connected to Saltaire Weslyan Chapel, which no longer exists,
Blue, White plate from Saltaire Congregational Church
Saltaire Congregational Church: Saltaire Congregational Church building
United Reformed Church building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2018.2: 1887 Jubilee Exhibition medallion
On the front: picture of Victoria Hall, surrounded by the words 'The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition' with '1887' at the base. On the reverse: Head of Queen Victoria.
Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition: Welcome arch on Victoria Road
Victoria Hall, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
1887 Jubilee Exhibition medallion: Front view
1887 Jubilee Exhibition medallion: Rear view
A commemorative plate for different occasions relating to the Congregational Church Saltaire. Red, Blue, White plate from Congregational Church Saltaire
Plate with transfer print of Saltaire United Reformed Church (previously Saltaire Congregational Church) in centre.
2018.23.1: Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate
Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate
Plate decorated with 'Saltaire Cricket Pavillion, Merrie England Bazaar 1927' transfer.
Roberts Park, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Roberts Park, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Promenade with bandstand
Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate: Plates 1 and 2
Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate: Back of Plate 1
Small souvenir vase decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
2018.4: 1993 Salts Clothing Co. pin badge
An enamelled pin badge, produced by Fattorini of Bradford. The badge has the a white alpaca on a black background standing above the words 'Established 1993' with a scroll underneath stating 'Salts Clothing Co'. This badge was made after Salts Mill had shut and the business had moved elsewhere. Drummonds owned the Trademarks and order books in 1985.
2018.42.1: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 1. 1870
1 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. The book contains prints of: Sir Titus Salt, Francis Crossley, Bradford, Huddersfied, Leeds etc
2018.42.2: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1870
2 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. There are no prints in this volume
2018.42.3: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1870
3 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. Contains prints of Bradford, Saltaire etc. This volume contains a history of the principle cities of Yorkshire.
2018.42.4: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 1. 1873
4 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. Containing prints of Rivaulx and Bolton Abbeys and Bradford Wool Exchange. This volume contains the early history of Yorkshire from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th century. Includes Daniel Defoes 'Tour of Yorkshire'. Includes the history of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacture of Yorkshire.
2018.42.5: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1875
5 of 5 volumes of the publication 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. This volume contains the history of several boroughs in Yorkshire, details of the Parliamentary divisions of Yorkshire and prints of Halifax and York, Leeds etc.
Black and white photograph of Salts Mill in 1890 viewed from Green Lane before houses were built. A few houses in the village are visibie, and the Congregatational Church is on the right. Skyline has many trees. Geese are visible in the foreground.
2018.44: Living with Buildings, and walking with ghosts'
Living with Buildings, and walking with ghosts'
A book covering health and architecture and public health
2018.45.1: Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, student book, Spinning
Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, student book, Spinning
The book is a student work book, which has been beautifully written in Copper plate writing. It has been used to record the lesson on Spinning, detailing the process with images, that the student learnt at Shipley Technical School, which later became Shipley College. Many students at the college went to work in the Mill and then attended classes in the evening.
Technical and Art School: Prospectus for 1927-1928
Exhibition Building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2018.46: Photograph of a Saltaire trolley bus
Small photograph of a Saltaire Trolley bus Route No. 80. The bus has folding doors. Registration number DKY 737
A book covering the life of children in the Victoran Age
2018.48: A Dictionary of Neglected Artists
A Dictionary of Neglected Artists Working 1880-1950 by Jeremy Wood
2018.49: The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807-2007
The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807-2007
The History of the Mill Hill School Foundation 1807-2007 by Roderick Braithwaite. Titus Salt Junior attended this school for two years up to 1855. His brothers William Henry, George, Edward and Herbert also attended. The School was an independent school in London set up to provide education to the dissenting (non-Church of England) familes and so was suitable for the Congregtationalist Salt family. This book is a history of the school written by the school's archivist.
2018.6: Photograph of nurses on a Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. lorry
Photograph of nurses on a Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. lorry
Photograph of nurses riding on the back of a Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. lorry, with a lady in a hat in the cab and a man standing by the lorry holding a child.
Plain white mug, with the Salts Alpaca logo on both sides. Possibly an advertising or representative's give-away mug.
2018.8: Bradford Cricket League 'Priestley Cup 1958'
Bradford Cricket League 'Priestley Cup 1958'
Bradford Cricket League 'Priestley Cup' for 1958' presented to Salts (Saltaire) cricket club and E. Mason.
2019.12.1.1: Saltaire Archive on Display
Saltaire Archive on Display 1st August -12th august 2011. Sataire Archive is now known as the Saltaire Collection
2019.13.1.2: Saltaire Archive on Display
Saltaire Archive on Display 30th July -10th august 2012. Saltaire Archive is now known as the Saltaire Collection
2019.13.2.1: Saltaire Archive on Display
Saltaire Archive on Display 22nd July -2nd August 2013. Saltaire Archive is now known as the Saltaire Collection
World Heritage Weekend 21st-22nd April 2012
World Heritage Weekend 13th - 14th April 2013
World Heritage Weekend 16th - 17th April 2016
Newspaper article on David Hockney 7th July 2007
Aerial photograph of Saltaire by C.H. Wood Ref. No. A14464. With pencilled information on reverse 'Photograph from Jean MacCallister's office'
Aerial photograph of Saltaire by C.H. Wood Ref. No. A14464. With pencilled information on reverse 'On loan from Saltaire Village Society'
2019.31.1: Saltaire: The origins of a model industrial community
Saltaire: The origins of a model industrial community
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
2019.36: Sir Titus Salt. Baronet: His Life and its Lessons.
Sir Titus Salt. Baronet: His Life and its Lessons.
Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Biography of Sir Titus Salt written by his friend and associate Reverend Robert Balgarnie who was Minister of South Cliff Church, Scarborough. The book has 20 chapters and includes 4 illustrations, including one of Crow's Nest Lightcliffe and of the Manor House in Morley where Sir Titus was born.
'After All' an autobiography by James Ogden - An old boy of Albert Road School and The Salt High School
Albert Road School: Pupils dressed for coronation day in 1902
Albert Road School buildings, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society
The Bradford Antiquary No. 80, 2019. The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society. Contains articles on: 'Sir Titus Salt at Scarborough - A Tale of Church and Chapel' by George Sheeran p1-11 and 'The Titus Salt Statue, Lister Park,' by David Pendleton p27-42
Only viewable in the Saltaire Collection
Copyright Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society
2019.48: Ordnance Survey Map-Shipley and Saltaire 1906
Ordnance Survey Map-Shipley and Saltaire 1906
Old Ordnance Survey Map-Shipley and Saltaire 1906 - Godfrey Edition
2019.49: 'Saltaire The Making of a Model Town
'Saltaire The Making of a Model Town' by Neil Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples
Metal badge engraved 'William Kershaw Ltd Saltaire'
County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire
CLOSED until 16th September 2027 Letter from the County Council of the West Riding of Yorkshire. The letter relates to an enquiry about a child in regard to the Midwives Acts 1902 to 1926
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Letter to Miss Fillinham in regard to a recent holiday.
2019.52.1: Albert Road Junior Mixed School Scholar's Report 1951
Albert Road Junior Mixed School Scholar's Report 1951
Albert Road Junior Mixed School Scholar's Report July 27th 1951 for Hazel Watson, Class 3a
2019.52.2: Salt High School Scholar's Report 1952-1957
Salt High School Scholar's Report 1952-1957
Salt High School Scholar's Report 1952-1957 for Hazel Watson
Salt High School: Students outside the High School
Salt High School building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2019.52.3: Salt High School Speech day programme 8th December 1955
Salt High School Speech day programme 8th December 1955
2019.52.4: Salt High School Speech day programme 8th May 1958
Salt High School Speech day programme 8th May 1958
Mounted photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe
Northcliffe, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Northcliffe Woods: People walking in the woods
Laminated photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe
Board-mounted photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe, with 4 other unidentfied men
Laminated photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe, with 4 other unidentfied men
Photograph of Tom Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe with members of the Saltaire Rifle Volunteers
Enlarged laminated copy of a postcard of a photograph of Tom Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe with members of the Saltaire Rifle Volunteers
2019.59: Textile Voices: a century of mill life
Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage
A book by Tim Smith and Olive Howarth of Bradford Heritage Recording Unit. Contains reminiscences of textiles workers about working in mills around Bradford, as recorded by the Unit. Illustrated with photographs of mills, workers and the streets of Bradford and nearby towns
Textile Voices: a century of mill life: Front cover
Board-mounted Albert Road School photograph of a group of children. circa 1920
Fire hose nozzle, marked Titus Salt Esqr.
Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited: Front of Silver Jubillee booklet
2020.1.1: Silver-headed wooden walking cane
Walking stick with floral engraved silver handle: Inscription reads: 'Presented by the Members of the Saltaire Brass Band - Sir Titus Salt Bart & Co. to Mr Joseph Scott, Military Outfitters, Stanningley. For the efficient manner in which he executed the uniform dress of the band. Mr Joseph Paley, Bandmaster. May 24th 1879
A Visitors Guide to Saltaire by David Weber and Barlo & Shaw
A transcription and assessment relating to various legal documents relating to the Will of Daniel Salt of Jamaica,the great-uncle of Sir Titus Salt, and his plantation at Salt Hill, Jamaica.
Bone China Cup with text: 'Saltaire Victorian Village' and scenes from Saltaire and a portrait of Titus Salt in transfers around the cup
A photograph of the statue of two aplacas in Roberts Park in 2020
An advertising poster for an exhibition called 'Hidden Histories' held in Saltaire in September 2919 by the Saltaire Collection. The exhibition was held as part of the national open Heritage Weekend and as part of Saltaire Festival. It provided information on several less-well known people linked to Saltaire.
High Court of Justice Principle Probate Registry
Copy of the Probate for the estate of Mary Isabel Salt who died 21st May 1968 at Broomhall, Victoria Drive, Bognor Regis, Surrey. Includes a copy of her Will. She requests to be cremated. Most of the estate goes to Rosemary Edith Wilmot, with some bequest to her nephews, Denys Salt and Peter Salt
2020.17: Glimpses of 150 years of Methodism at Sataire
Glimpses of 150 years of Methodism at Sataire
'Glimpses of 150 years of Methodism at Saltaire Methodist Church by Ann Willey (1868-2018)
Seal Plush Coat acquired from California. Produced by the 'Sir Titus Salt & Co, Saltaire's 'Seal Plush' process. The label inside reads: 'This garment is made of Sir Titus Salt's celebrated Seal Plush, and is specially recommended to the wearer by Sir Titus Salt's Co, Saltaire, Eng'. See also 2018.43 for newspaper advertisements for Seal Plush coats.
2020.6.1: Grange Court-Baildon Lodge History
A typed article 'Grange Court-Baildon Lodge' relating to the owners and occupiers, including Titus Salt Junior compiled by Roger Clarke, October 2019
Content available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence
Grange Court history There are several things you should know before reading the story of Grange Court:-  For most of its existence it was known as Baildon Lodge.  There are two houses called Baildon Lodge on Station Rd, and care has been taken to ensure that they have not been confused with each other in compiling this history. The other is further along Station Rd near the railway station.  Baildon Lodge is built close to another large house called Baildon House, and there are close links between the two over their history.  Press cuttings are included, to provide an insight into the lives of the occupants, along with a historical commentary. The Story In 1724, Baildon House was built. Adjacent to it was a wayside Inn called Leather Breeches, later Baildon Lodge. (It should be noted that there was a brewery at Ingfield on Slaughter Lane which also had malt kilns, supplying the Inn.) Leather Breeches is not mentioned in the list of Baildon Inns of 1823 and so presumably closed and became residential before this date. William Holden owned both Baildon House and Baildon Lodge. He died in 1809 aged 71 years. He left the properties to his only daughter who married John Lambert. The properties were then left to their two daughters. Margaret married James Bent and they lived at Baildon House. The other daughter, Caroline Ann, married Thomas Lockley, MD, aged 49, a local magistrate, and a practising physician, and they lived at Baildon Lodge. The 1861 census confirms that they were living at Baildon Lodge with their 5 year old son, Edward Holden Lockley. They had a cook, servant and a groom. They continued to live there until 1866. th York Herald – 14 April, 1880. Death of Dr Lockley. It is with deep regret that we have to announce the death of Dr Lockley which took place at his residence, Bootham, in the city yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman was the third son of the late George F Lockley of Half Moon St, London, by Margaret, youngest daughter and co-heiress of Mr Thomas Bolt of Ruswarp near Whitby. In 1852 Dr Lockley married Caroline Ann, second daughter and co-heiress of the late John Lambert of Baildon. The deceased gentleman left Baildon Lodge to reside in York in 1865 and was identified with many philanthropic institutions in the city. In 1866 Mr Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine moved into Baildon Lodge, and lived there until 1871. th th Titus Junior was the 7 child and 5 son of Sir Titus Salt who built Saltaire. th Titus Junior married Catherine Crossley on 15 March, 1866. Her family owned Crossley Carpets in Halifax and had a very close friendship with the Salt family. The union of Titus and Catherine increased that bond. Living at Baildon Lodge, their first 2 children were born there. Gordon Loxley Salt th nd was born on 17 December, 1866 and Harold Crossley Salt was born on 2 August, 1868. Their project to build a huge mansion at Milner Field was conceived a few months into their marriage when two farm houses came up for sale on the Milner Field estate, which they bought and demolished while they were living at Baildon Lodge. Titus Junior’s elder brother Edward had already built a mansion at Ferniehurst in Baildon. Titus Junior went on to create the Milner Field mansion which was to entertain Royalty in 1882 and 1887. Building began in 1871 and was completed in 1873. Bradford Daily Telegraph - Monday 23 August 1869 The Salt family were always keen gardeners. The gardens at Milner Field were designed by Robert Marnock, a landscape designer who adopted the gardenesque style in which emphasis was placed on exotic and non-native plants including orchids, Lapageria Rosea (“a climbing plant with drooping bells in red and white with as many as 4,000 flowers at any one time”), melons and figs. There were even pineapples grown at Milner Field which were “enclosed in pits of horse manure one foot deep”. (My gratitude to the late Alistair McKinna for publishing this information) Titus Junior died suddenly of a heart attack in 1887 aged 44 years. This was the first of many tragedies which led to the jinx of Milner Field mansion – but that’s another story. In 1871, 24 year old Harry Rouse and his wife Mary aged 19 moved into Baildon Lodge. Harry was distantly related to the Salt family since his aunt Hannah Rouse married George Whitlam Haigh whose mother was Amelia Whitlam (sister of Lady Caroline Salt). They lived there until 1877. They had 4 servants, one of whom was also their coachman. There was a long friendship between the Rouse family and the Salts. In 1822, when the Salt family came to Bradford, the seventeen year old Titus was taken on as an apprentice by William Rouse for two years to learn the wool trade. And in 1871, Sarah Amelia Rouse became the second wife of Titus Junior’s brother, Edward. The Salts, Crossleys and the Rouses were united in friendship through the textile industry, through religion (Congregationalists), politics (radical liberals), and now through marriage. Leeds Mercury th 15 December, 1870 – At Edinburgh the marriage of Harry Rouse Esq of Baildon Lodge to Mary Hogarth, only daughter of the late Alexander Cunningham Esq of the Tofts, Morebattle, Roxburghshire. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer th th 19 October, 1871 – Rouse, on 18 October birth of a son In 1881 there is an interesting twist to the story of the Lodge - John Rouse and family lived next door at Baildon House whilst at Baildon Lodge lived Elizabeth Hall, a 35 year old cook and Mary Park, a 24 year old housemaid. By the 1891 census a family had taken over Baildon Lodge. John Spink, aged 54 years, (a wine and spirit merchant, brewer and cigar importer) and his wife Elizabeth Spink aged 45 years lived there with their 5 children Catherine (23), Gertrude (21), Bernard (19 and apprentice to an iron founder), Jack (6) and Geoffrey (4). They had a cook, housemaid and a nurse. Joseph Spink and Sons were a well established Bradford business. John was a Director and partner in it. Trade Directories in 1901 and 1912 note that the head office was on Market St and the warehouse was at Rosse St. A major investment was the Boars Head Restaurant, grill and bars at 6 to 8, Market St, and the Exchange Restaurant and bars at 18, Market St. There was also an interest in the Golden Lion and the Albion Hotel on Leeds Rd, the Queens Hotel on Lumb Lane, and the Shoulder of Mutton in Girlington. Bradford Daily Telegraph th 6 July, 1887 – Baildon Local Board met yesterday evening. A letter complaining of the diversion of a stream of water which had been used by the inhabitants of Lower Baildon for domestic purposes for a great number of years was read by the Clerk. The letter stated that the stream had been taken from its course by the tenant of Baildon Lodge who had allowed it to run to waste. The Clerk was instructed to write to Mr Spink of Baildon Lodge asking that the stream be allowed to run its proper course. rd And on 23 October, 1889 - The Issue of 2,000 Preference Shares and 2,000 Ordinary Shares in the firm of Joseph Spink and Sons, Limited. John Spink and William Spink are listed amongst the Directors of the Company Wharfedale and Airedale Observer th 29 August, 1890 – Fashionable wedding at Baildon Church. The village of Baildon was the scene of great animation at noon on Wednesday, the occasion being the nuptials of Mr Oliver Firth, youngest son of Mr Thomas Firth, late of Baildon and now of Grange, and who was formerly a manufacturer at Shearbridge, Bradford, and Miss Florence Margaret Spink, second daughter of Mr John Spink (senior partner of the Bradford firm of Joseph Spink and Sons) of Baildon Lodge, Baildon. In the 1901 census Alfred W. Hoffman aged 39 years, wool and yarn merchant, with his wife Sarah 40 and daughter Irene (12) were living at the Lodge. They are still there in 1926, with the addition of John Achior Hoffman (24) also a wool and yarn merchant. They had a cook and two housemaids, one from Bergen in Norway. Alfred was a Jewish immigrant who established his office and warehouse at 8, Burnett St, Little Germany in the centre of Bradford, alongside other textile merchants who were immigrants from Germany. Achior was a prominent member of Bradford Chamber of Commerce who worked tirelessly to promote the establishment of Bradford Conditioning House which was eventually opened in 1891. It provided a scientific, laboratory examination of the 150 million lbs of foreign wool which was imported from all over the world. Most important it led to a reduction in anthrax, an infectious disease of sheep and goats passed by spores carried in their fleeces, and which was known as the wool sorters disease. There were 62 fatal cases in Bradford between 1916 and 1920, but this number fell sharply after Dr Eurich discovered a system of disinfection involving heat and formaldehyde at the Conditioning House. Bradford Daily Telegraph th 7 February, 1893 – Lost in Baildon a Fox Terrier. It answers to the name of Tyrant and has three black spots on its body. Finder to contact Baildon Lodge. th 5 September, 1894 – Accident to a Bradford gentleman. Mr Joseph Drake, son of the late Alderman Drake was yesterday out riding on a horse belonging to Mr Alfred Hoffman of Baildon Lodge, when he met with an accident. The riderless horse arrived at Shipley last evening, from the saddle of which the stirrup on one side was missing, and efforts were made to discover the rider. In the meantime Mr Drake reached home but was not, fortunately, seriously injured. th 15 July, 1896 – at the residence of her brother-in-law, Alfred W Hoffman of Baildon Lodge, the death of Emily, youngest daughter of the late Nathan Drake. th 6 December, 1899 – Mr Alfred Hoffman of Baildon Lodge, brother of Colonel Hoffman, is suffering from a severe attack of typhoid fever and has been confined to his house for several weeks. Shipley Times and Express th 12 August, 1904 – Gentleman’s valet absconds. On Thursday last, a person named Walter James, a valet on the employ of Mr A.W Hoffman of Baildon Lodge, disappeared and soon afterwards his employer found that a sum of nearly £50 has been taken. James, who was formerly in the Army, is believed to be a native of London. He is of smart, military appearance and about 46 years of age. Mr Hoffman placed the utmost confidence in him. James had been employed at Baildon Lodge for about ten years. He is reported to have got into difficulties through betting. Mr Hoffman is sorry for the betrayal of his confidence. The police have been communicated with on the subject. th 17 February, 1906 – Wanted at once, an Upstairs Maid. Good references required. Apply Mrs Alfred Hoffman, Baildon Lodge. th 16 July, 1909 – Mr A.W Hoffman won two silver rose bowls in the amateur class at the Saltaire Rose Show. Wharfedale and Airedale Observer Motor cycling at dangerous speed. Mr John A Hoffman of Baildon Lodge was summoned at Bradford on Wednesday for driving his motor cycle at a dangerous st speed. According to the evidence, on July 21 he rode up Cheapside in Bradford at an estimated speed of 25 to 30 miles per hour at a time when there was a good deal of pedestrian and vehicular traffic. Mr S.E.Nixon of Headingley said that he had just stepped off a car at the bottom of Cheapside when the defendant swept past and up the hill. He spoke to the constable on point duty and this officer estimated the speed at 30 miles per hour. In the witness box the defendant said he had only ridden 15 yards when he passed the officer and, as his machine is geared abnormally high, it could not possibly have accelerated to anything like the speed mentioned. The Stipendiary Magistrate imposed a fine of £2 including costs, and expressed the opinion that motor cycles did travel too fast and steps should be taken to moderate them. Shipley Times and Express nd 2 January, 1914 – A striking illustration of the mildness of the weather experienced up to Christmas was seen in the garden of Mr A.W.Hoffman, Baildon Lodge, where there were many beautiful rose blooms. nd 2 October, 1914 – Men who have joined the Kings forces include Jack Hoffman of Baildon Lodge who has joined the West Middlesex Regiment. Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer th 29 May, 1921 – The engagement is announced between John A Hoffman, son of Mr and Mrs Alfred W Hoffman of Baildon Lodge and Elizabeth (‘Betty’), only daughter of Mr and Mrs F.J. Haggas, JP, of Cliffe Lodge, Baildon. th th th 7 April, 1927 – the death is announced on April 6 in his 66 year of Alfred William Hoffman, Service at Scholemoor Crematorium, Bradford at 11-30am tomorrow, th April 8 . No flowers, no mourning, by request. In 1928 Sarah is living alone at the Lodge. Electoral Roll 1929 & 1930 – no entry (house vacant?) 1931 – William, Ann & Henry Hudson 1932 & 1933 – no entry (house vacant?) Electoral Roll - 1934 to 1940 – Edgar & Sarah Wrigglesworth Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer st 31 January, 1934 – Wanted immediately, young experienced nanny for boy two years old. Good refs. Mrs Wrigglesworth, Baildon Lodge. Wanted experienced Cook- General, to wash; housemaid kept. Mrs Wrigglesworth, Baildon Lodge, Station Rd, Baildon. In October, 1940, the Sunday Schools at the Primitive Methodist and Moravian Churches, the Picture House (opposite the Malt Shovel) and a number of large houses were commandeered by the military authorities for billeting purposes. It may be that Baildon House and Lodge were amongst the houses chosen. Mary France, in “Wartime Remembered” by Baildon Oral History Group, recalls that the seats in the Picture House (opposite the Malt Shovel on Northgate) had been removed to accommodate the soldiers and the floor was very sloping. “They went to sleep in the 1/3d and woke up in the 4d”. “Most of the soldiers attended dances at the Parochial Hall and there was no shortage of partners – but we had to develop the art of avoiding untrained feet.” A canteen for service personnel was opened in the Methodist Sunday School. Electoral Roll - 1945 to 1956 – Thomas & Eileen Briggs Electoral Roll - 1957 to 1962 – Peter & Stephanie Marbach Shipley Times and Express th 13 April, 1955 - Mr Peter Marbach of Baildon Lodge and managing director of Petmar Industries, Batley, left for a continental business tour on Monday. The tour will last for 16 days of road travel, and during that time he will visit Holland, Belgium, Switzerland and Germany. Before setting out he said “In these days the need to expand our economy, especially in the textile areas, is apparent. This can, to some extent, be achieved by increasing our exports on a national scale. I trust that my visit to Europe will have the dual effect of increasing our own sales abroad and in doing so further the country’s balance of trade position.” th 26 September, 1956 – Baildon Lodge, the beautiful home of Mr and Mrs Peter Marbach was the delightful setting for a cocktail party and reception. Lord Swinton was the principal guest. th 12 March, 1958 – Allan Binns, aged 33, a labourer of 10, Kelvin St, Bradford 4, was fined £10 after he had pleaded guilty to stealing a £1 note, the property of Alice Brullhardt at Baildon Lodge. Miss Brullhardt was the maid at Baildon Lodge, and while her employers were away in America she was in charge of the house. About nine o’clock in the morning of January this year she placed a £1 note in her purse, later putting it in her shopping bag and left it on the kitchen table. During the course of the morning the accused, who was at that time a window cleaner in the Baildon area, called at the Lodge and told her he would repair a broken window in an upstairs room. She allowed him to enter the house and he went to the window upstairs. He later came back into the kitchen. Miss Brullhardt told him that she was going to the shop and he said that he would accompany her. She went upstairs and returned five minutes later and found that he had left the house. She also found that the £1 note was missing from her purse. She reported the matter to the police, and when the accused was seen at his home he said ‘It wasn’t me, you are on the wrong man.’ He was questioned further and admitted the offence. Chief Inspector Allderidge said Binns had previous convictions for false pretences, housebreaking, larceny and forgery. The Chairman said that they were giving Binns one last chance and ordered him to pay the £10 fine at ten shillings a week. st 21 May, 1958 – A new Baildon company. New companies announced on Friday by Jordan and Sons Ltd, company registration agents, included Processed Fibres Ltd, Baildon Lodge, Baildon. Nominal capital £100 in £1 shares. Directors L.P.Marbach, Norman H Gaunt and Stephanie Marbach, all of Baildon Lodge. Electoral Roll – 1974 to 1978 – Kenneth and Sheila Blundell Electoral Roll – 1979 to 1982 – Graham and Vivian Ing In 1985 Baildon Lodge became a residential home for the elderly, owned by Dr Wozney, which closed in 1996/7. 1997 – Baildon Lodge was bought and redecorated by the Berry family. The th residential home was then re-opened as Grange Court on 4 January, 1998. There have been a number of building renovations since then, including  joining the existing house to the stable building in 1999  the conservatory was completed and a side garden landscaped in 2010  a hair salon and toilet facilities provided on the ground floor in 2011  additional rooms were created in 2018 to bring occupancy up to 30 residents. Roger Clarke (With thanks to Tish Lawson and Colin Coates for their help) October, 2019
2020.6.2: Saltaire Overlookers 1830-1914
'Saltaire Overlookers 1830-1914' by Roger Clarke, with contributions by Colin Coates: Includes items relating to individual overlookers and the social life of overlookers
Saltaire Overlookers 1830 to 1914 By Roger Clarke in collaboration with Colin Coates 1 Acknowledgements I gratefully acknowledge the contribution of Colin Coates, whose ability to use his computer skills to access information from census returns, newspaper stories, and many other sources has provided me with detailed material which would otherwise have been unavailable, especially in the biographies of Saltaire residents. His research is much appreciated. I have used Jack Reynold’s ‘The Great Paternalist’, published 1983 extensively in researching information about Saltaire in Victorian times. Part one Setting the scene th At the end of the 18 century the time was right for change, and for a different attitude towards work and employment. Calvin preached that hard work, thrift, and efficiency in one’s worldly calling were keys to eternal salvation. Profit is an end in itself, and the pursuit of profit is virtuous. Early capitalists needed a skilled and unskilled workforce disciplined to accept long hours and harsh conditions for as small a wage as possible to maximise profits. The organisation of labour in textile mills was dependent on the nature of the machinery involved, which determined the need for huge galleries and a large workforce to service the machines. Examples of early mills are:- • In 1776, Richard Arkwright, built his cotton mill at New Lanark. There were 9 rooms in the mill for preparing the raw cotton, carding drawing and roving, bobbin winding, throstle spinning, mule spinning, warping and beaming, drawing and weaving, and each was under the control of an overlooker. • In 1840, Brunswick cotton spinning mill, Ancoats, Manchester was built by David Bellhouse who employed William Fairburn to design a 7 storey block which housed 276 carding machines, 77,000 mule spindles, 20 drawing frames, 50 slubbing frames, and 81 roving frames. Overlookers The typical structure of the mill was to have a department manager and an overlooker for each of the mechanised processes involved from combing to dyeing. The following list outlines the generic role of the overlooker in all departments:- • Middle management between workers and bosses. • Maintenance of machines – regular oiling and checking, often before workers arrived. Undertake basic repairs, bringing in specialist mechanics if 2 necessary. Salts had their own specialists. Some overlookers were so good that they could tell if a machine was about to break down before it did. • Checking attendance. Workers were only allowed in at specific times and if you missed the time you might be allowed in after paying a fine. Overlookers had to make sure they had enough workers to operate the machines in their department, which included breaks and lunchtime when the machines continued to run. • Making sure that workers operated the machines efficiently and reliably. • Inspected the quality of the pieces before they left the department. • Hiring and firing. In some mills managers insisted on interviewing the overlooker’s choice. Workers could appeal to management if they felt unfairly dismissed. • Reporting accidents. • Checking use of toilets, ensuring that only one person used them at a time to prevent time wasting and gossiping. • The effectiveness of overlookers depended on their personalities and their ability to motivate workers as well as keeping control. • Training on the job. Observing the overlooker, but then had to attend evening classes 3 nights a week for a year. Then had one day a week day release and one evening a week for classes. The process could take 4 to 6 years. Bradford Mechanics Institute (between 1832 and 1882) and then Bradford Technical College offered other business classes which they could choose from. All funded by Mill. Apprentice overlookers could find that they were earning less money than mill juniors because the mill was paying for their training. Overlookers played their greatest role in spinning and weaving. In spinning they repaired machinery, inspected the final product and supervised both drawing and spinning room operatives. Each spinning room overlooker supervised about 40 workers. Weaving overlookers performed similar tasks but in addition they inspected the warps for weaving and determined the quality of the completed pieces. They were in charge of 50 to 100 looms. Overlookers were paid more than ordinary workers. They received 28/- to 30/- a week, compared with 14/- to 28/- for male workers, 9/- for female workers and 8/- to 10/- for children. Which raises the interesting question of how this payment was worked out for the most demanding overlooker role - in the weaving department. There had to be an element of technical skill here because overlookers would not only maintain the looms, they would often tune them and set up the patterns which were to be woven. But how do you calculate, in cash terms, for their exercise of authority over the workers? They were responsible for the flow of production and therefore controlled the distribution of work, the speed at which snags were overcome and the immediate discipline of the floor. One way was to put a value on the product of the worker’s labour i.e. the pieces of cloth produced – their length, complexity and density of the weave. In which case 3 their wages would vary from week to week according to piecework. Mills varied in the amount allowed for piecework and that allowed for the overlooker’s contribution. There was a ratio of 1 overlooker per 30 to 40 workers. Overlookers were invariably male in contrast to a largely female and child workforce. The complexity of the overlooker’s role is obvious from one of the few surviving examples of an overlooker’s notebook which can be found in the West Yorkshire Archive. It was the property of Fred Shackleton, an overlooker in Salts Mill in 1919. He was responsible for twisting, warping, winding and reeling. His notebook contains long handwritten lists of information about wages for a wide range of workers including takers-off, doffers, setters, jobbers, reelers, warpers, winders and hankers, and the prices of materials, all of which changed regularly and had to be updated. Overlookers had to be literate and numerate which many workers were not. Discipline of the workforce. In supervising the workers, especially children, overlookers often resorted to physical punishment. • “The overlooker gave us all a bit of the alley strap. It used to knock all the bits of wool, you know all the waste, it used to send it under the frames, so when the walking boss came round it were all tidy you see. Oh it were a big alley strap and it were all leather, and if they didn’t behave themselves they got a bit of this alley strap”. (From ‘Textile Voices’ by Tim Smith and Olive Howarth – Bradford Heritage Recording Unit. Published by Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage). • “Newspapers carried reports of continued violence in the work place, such as the 10 year old who died in March,1857, a week after a beating by an overlooker at Garnett’s Mill. The frequency of such violence led the ‘Textile Manufacturer’ to remark in December, 1875, that overlookers seemed to believe that they could treat children as they pleased. It recommended that notices be posted telling overlookers that they could not strike children.” • Evidence provided to the Factory Commissioners in 1832 stated “Discipline was the responsibility of the overlooker and was invariably maintained using a strap. In some mills it was not unknown for the overlooker to use a spindle from one of the machines to discipline children; particularly boys, who seem to have been dealt with more harshly than girls. One overlooker said that he had occasionally seen girls of 15 or 16 strapped, and on one occasion a woman of 20, although he had not strapped any girl over the age of 14. The same man said that he had sometimes seen parents of boys come to the mill to complain about excessive beatings. He also said that he thought that many parents did not complain about excessive beatings because they were afraid that it would encourage the overlooker concerned to find a reason to dismiss the child as quickly as possible. Interestingly, the majority of children giving evidence did not appear to feel aggrieved at having been beaten.” 4 • Sutcliffe Rhodes, frequent commentator in the local Press in the 1860s, cites “the sight of an emaciated form of a spinning girl rendered helpless by the scandalous abuse of an overlooker. And the dying spinner boy who said ‘Ellis Brook (overlooker) has pawsed me right hard”. There are many descriptions of the condition of children in mills in literature, including Disraelis ‘Sybil’ or ‘The Two Nations’ (1845) Dickens ‘Hard Times’ Charlotte Bronte ‘Shirley’ (1849) Frances Trollop ‘Michael Armstrong’ (1876) Gaskells ‘Mary Barton’ and ‘North and South’ (1854) Mrs Tonna ‘Helen Fleetwood’ (1839) I could find little evidence of extreme sexual abuse, such as that demonstrated in the 2015 film ‘Suffragette’ starring Meryl Streep as Emmaline Pankhurst and Cory Milligan as Maud Watts a laundry worker. A male supervisor has been sexually abusing girls in the laundry for years, including Maud and currently a friend’s young daughter. It may be that even when sexual abuse was known about it remained covert and was not publicised - certainly not in courts or newspapers. For example, between 1870 and 1914, 39 cases of sexual abuse came before Hamstead magistrates. Only a quarter were committed for trial. Three quarters were dealt with summarily. 60% of these received a conviction for common assault or indecent exposure and 40% were dismissed. As in other areas of the country, cases of sexual abuse were either acquitted or trivialised as minor public order offences. And from the Office of National Statistics we have • “In excess of 500 people were dealt with by the courts per year during the 1920s, rising incrementally to over 5,000 by the 1960s. • Throughout, however, this represented merely the tip of an iceberg. It is likely that the ten-fold increase was a result of changes in police and criminal justice procedure (enabling more cases to be reported and recorded) rather than an increase in prevalence. • Whilst the number of cases reported to the police increased incrementally across the period, evidence suggests there was a significant decline in the proportion that resulted in guilty verdicts. The law had been constructed as a reaction to Victorian moral anxieties – including concerns about homosexuality - rather than the need to protect and safeguard children. This means that children (as those against whom offences were committed) were only partially visible within the criminal justice statistics. In sum, the British state did not effectively monitor abuse of children. Ultimately it is only possible to conclude that the law and criminal justice system were woefully inadequate in dealing with child sexual abuse.” 5 However, there are examples of sexual harassment such as:- “There were one fellow, and we used to call him ‘Touchy’ because every time he come reckoning to look at the box he’d touch your behind. I remember one time I were on the box, and we used to warn each other when he was coming. They all used to say ‘watch him with Hilda’. And of course this day I didn’t know he were on and I was doing something with my machine and he come and put his hand right across my bottom. So I turned round, picked up a bobbin and hit him with it. So they took me to the office for it. The gentleman that was over the overlookers asked me what I hit him for. I said, ‘when he stops touching my arse I’ll stop hitting him with bobbins.” (Textile Voices) Women’s rights were very limited in the Nineteenth Century. The following is a reminder of what they were:- “1857 Matrimonial Causes Act – a man could divorce his wife for adultery, but she had to prove his adultery and also an additional ‘matrimonial offence’ such as cruelty, desertion, bigamy or incest. The reason was that a wife’s adultery ‘might introduce a spurious child into the family whereas a man’s promiscuity would have no such deleterious effects’. Under common law a married woman’s independent identity was totally subsumed in that of her husband under the doctrine of ‘coverture’. She was not able to enter into legal contacts and had no rights in her own property. All she had earned or inherited belonged to her husband. The 1870 Married Women’s Property Act was passed but inadequately gave women further rights. Husbands could gamble or drink away their wife’s earnings. Wives could not even have custody of their own children since the father was deemed to be the ‘natural’ guardian regardless of his faults. In 1878 the Matrimonial Causes Act enabled brutalised wives to obtain a Protection Order with the force of a judicial separation in the Magistrates Court to receive custody of their children and be awarded maintenance. However this did not constitute divorce and the woman could not remarry.” (From Sex, Gender and Social Change In Britain since 1880 by Lesley A Hall) Fortunately there are also examples of overlookers motivating their workers using more easy going methods. For example:- “We made a parcel up. We put orange peel, mucky bobbins, sweepings up, and made a lovely parcel and wrote on it ‘To our beloved overlooker from his doffers’. Well he got hold of it and looked at it you know, he’s looking right slyly around him, and he crept out and went into the men’s toilet. When he came out he shied the bobbins at us, orange peel, apple cores, banana skins. Anyhow he were a lovely overlooker and we loved him.” (Textile Voices) But there are other ideas about discipline and control in mills When Robert Owen took over control of the New Lanark Mill in the early 1800s he devised a new way for overlookers to control his workers in the workplace. He introduced the silent monitor. This was a four-sided piece of wood 2 inches long and one inch wide, each side coloured – one side black, one blue, one yellow and 6 one white, with a hook on top to hang it near to every person employed. The colour to the front told of the conduct of the person on the preceding day. Books of character were provided for each Department with the names of employees listed and monitor readings were noted in the book. The books were changed six times a year and were preserved. This system was similar to Jeremy Bentham’s Panoptican, a model prison featuring a central tower with several wings radiating out from it. The prisoner can always see the tower but never knows when or from where he is being observed. Prisoners self police their own behaviour because the guard may be watching, Each individual is seen but cannot communicate with the warders or other prisoners. The panopticon induces a sense of permanent visibility that ensures the functioning of power. Surveillance is permanent in its effects even if it is discontinuous in its action. Michelle Foucault was a French philosopher who had well formulated ideas about the nature of power in various social settings. He looked at diamond mines, prisons, schools, hospitals and the military, and saw common features in the way in which they impose disciplinary power in order to create ‘docile, obedient bodies’. That is, discipline must come about without excessive force through careful observation. Individual personal differences are not acknowledged unless they are related to skill, promotion or production. The Mill is divided into discrete departments and workers are classified in this way. The disciplinary power of the Mill is that it controls this system, and individuals become workers (or ‘operatives’). In Saltaire, this system of discipline is extended because the houses which the workers rented are owned by the Mill and linked with their employment . There are two local examples of this form of disciplinary surveillance. Saltaire Primary School has a balcony extending all the way around a central hall below which classrooms are situated, each with glass windows which enable a headteacher to observe the classroom from above without being seen. Salts Mill has huge open galleries (especially ‘The Lobby’) within which the textile machines were situated, enabling overlookers to observe a number of machines without actually approaching them. In a Bradford Mill Rachel Bellerby (‘Chasing the Sixpence – the lives of Bradford Mill Folk’ published by Fort Publishing Ltd) describes an overlooker who “had his own small office at the end of the weaving shed, which had glass sides so that he could always see what was happening on the floor”. Part Two The local scene in Saltaire 7 Titus Salt had mills in Bradford before starting to build Saltaire in 1851. Between 1851 and 1853 Salts Mill was built, and in 1853 house building began. Jack Reynolds notes that Saltaire had a selected population – key workers from Salt’s Bradford mills. Overlookers were amongst the first to go to Saltaire. Groups of workers were influenced by overlooker choices and followed them to the village. Warp dressers whose work was crucial at an early stage in the textile process were treated in the same way. Other groups moved more slowly. Overlookers and other senior workers formed an element in the so called workers committee which was responsible for allocating tenancies in the village. Titus Salt had seen Saltaire as being a place where the mistakes of Bradford could be rectified and a model industrial community could be created meeting his workers spiritual, moral, educational, housing, environmental and social needs – very different to the Bradford which his workers had left behind. The original plans for Saltaire specified two types of housing – workers and overlookers houses. This distinction has never narrowly determined their actual occupancy. The overlookers houses were larger and more expensive to rent and therefore more likely to be occupied by people in Jack Reynold’s ‘executive’ group of employees which includes wool buyers, designers, engineers, chief cashiers, managers, foremen and overlookers. Their size also means that they are more suitable for large families or for use of two families which wanted to live together and share the rent whatever their social position. These houses were initially on William Henry St, and George St, followed by ‘improved’ overlooker houses on Victoria Rd, Albert Rd and on Gordon Terrace and Myrtle Place. House building continued uphill towards Bradford Rd, with the improved housing of later build appealing to overlooker choices and there was a lot of tenant mobility. Reynolds says “Removals within the village were a persistent feature of village life. Of those who stayed between 1861 and 1871, over 50% moved to better or newer houses as they were completed and left older property to newcomers”. The following table shows overlooker choices over time according to Census returns. Overlookers Choice of Houses by street Street 1861 1871 1881 1891 1901 1911 Ada St 6 4 1 1 2 Albert Rd 6 4 3 4 5 Albert Ter 1 1 3 Almshouses 4 Amelia St 5 2 2 Bath Buildings 1 Caroline St 2 4 1 6 2 Constance St 1 2 5 2 2 Daisy Place 1 8 Dove St 1 2 4 2 7 Edward St 2 1 1 1 2 1 Fanny St 4 1 1 Fern Place 1 1 Garden 1 1 1 1 Cottage George St 11 10 10 9 7 11 Gordon Ter 4 4 2 3 Harold Place 1 1 1 1 1 Helen St 4 2 1 3 3 1 Herbert St 4 4 3 1 2 3 Higher School 1 1 St Jane St 2 1 6 3 Katherine St 1 1 Lockwood St 1 1 2 2 3 Lower School 1 5 2 2 St Mary St 6 3 1 1 1 3 Mawson St 3 4 4 2 2 Myrtle Place 1 1 Shirley St 2 1 8 1 1 3 Titus St 8 13 12 7 6 3 Victoria Rd 1 7 7 4 4 4 Whitlam St 4 3 4 2 1 William Henry 3 2 3 1 2 2 St This table shows one thing very clearly – that in the Mill the overlookers were part of the management structure but at home they lived on the same streets as fellow workers and were regarded as working men. I looked in detail at both overlooker and ordinary worker’s families and found very little difference in terms of number of children or lifestyle. One difference is that overlookers tended to be better educated than the ordinary workers. They had to have a better level of literacy to embark on an apprenticeship, and to follow their overlooker training. They also arranged for their children to remain in education for as long as possible, recognising that this was necessary to enter a skilled trade on leaving school. However, education was expensive at secondary level, and it is suggested that a foreman earning less than £100 per year could not afford to send their children to school beyond 13 or 14 years. The children of ordinary workers left school earlier, as soon as possible to begin work in the mill and earn a wage. Many were half-timers. Overlookers wives and families were closely involved in village life, living alongside the families of ordinary workers. Married women and their children, whatever their husband’s occupation, shared the everyday life of the village. It might not be 9 possible to know all 4,300 inhabitants of the village in 1906, but gossip was a common commodity , and Edward Stanners remarked at a later date that the women on the factory floor would often get to work half an hour early in order to ‘cal’ and catch up with the latest events in the village. The fact that Saltaire village had clear boundaries and was widely publicised as a model village gave workers of all kinds a sense of pride, belonging and a shared commitment to each other. Many employees and their families had known each other for many years working for the same firm even before moving to Saltaire and there were often kinship links. Some overlookers had worked as ordinary workers in the past. My hypothesis Overlookers were in a position to take the lead in contributing to community initiatives “Skilled men played a greater part than others in the administration of village facilities” (Reynolds) The following is a look at the evidence that this was the case. In Parliament The Nine Hours Movement. “Began with engineers and craft unions nationally, and only became a real issue when taken up by textile workers, led by overlookers. It was headed by Mundella, MP for Sheffield who consulted with the Overlookers’ Short Time Committees in Bradford and Leeds and brought a Bill before the House in 1872 to limit the working hours of women and children in factories to nine hours a day. A group of employers opposed the Bill, suggesting that although they worked longer hours than most craftsmen they did not work as hard in ten hours as the men did in nine. A deputation including Edward Salt presented their views to the Home Office. They claimed that there was no widespread desire among workers for a reduction of hours, for many textile workers were on piece rates and the prospect only faced them with diminished earnings. They claimed that the overlookers who had brought the agitation did so to bring their own hours into line with mill craftsmen who had obtained the reduction through their unions. Mundella’s Bill did not pass the House but a less generous Bill, the Ten Hour Bill was passed by the Disraeli administration.” (Reynolds) and “Working men were beginning to demand a more real political authority, either through a Radical/Labour wing of the Liberal Party or in a new Independent Labour Movement. In 1892, Saltaire men joined with Shipley working men to indicate that they were no longer willing to accept the political leadership of the local mill owners, and in particular the special authority of Salts. They produced their own Liberal/Labour candidate for the general election of 1892 – WP Byles had backed the strikers at Manningham Mills in 1890/91. He won the seat, leading to the resignation of Charles Stead as chairman of the Shipley Liberal Executive. Seth 10 Bentley, manager of Saltaire Baths, and a regular critic of the Salt authority, took Stead’s place. Among the men who supported him on the Executive were vice presidents Alex George, J Cryer, and Isaac Sanctuary. Isaac Sanctuary later joined the Bradford Independent Labour Party in 1893 when a branch was formed in Shipley, and his place on the Liberal Executive was taken by his brother Jacob.” (Reynolds) There were two political organisations in Shipley Shipley Liberal Club. Charles St, off Briggate, Shipley. Opened 1887. 400 members. Shipley Conservative Club. Atkinson St, off Westgate, Shipley with 300 members. Plus Saltaire Manhood Suffrage Association. “By 1866 there was a powerful branch of the National Reform League in Saltaire with secretary Robert Power, ‘an uncompromising radical’, son of Edward Power who had been imprisoned in 1848 in Bradford for Chartist activity. In 1866 and Easter Tuesday in 1887 the Manhood Suffrage Association turned out in force with the blessing of the firm which closed for the 1866 occasion since it was not a public holiday. The Saltaire Brass Band played the accompaniment to the march from Saltaire to Leeds. The National Reform League was a working class movement which asserted the intrinsic dignity and worth of working men as individuals and as members of a class. Unlike Chartism it did not demand social reform – it was a franchise for men who were properly ‘residential and registered”. (Jack Reynolds) In Saltaire Let’s begin by looking at organisations which provided safeguards against death and sickness. Saltaire Funeral Brief Society Open to anyone over 7 years old living in Saltaire and in good health pay 1.5d under 21, and over 21 they pay 3d as an entrance fee. Then a levy of 2d is made on those over 21 and 1d under that age. They receive £5 on death if over 21 and £4 under that age. The Society was formed in 1857 and by 1879 it had nearly 3,000 members. Originally Thomas Greenwood of 22, George St, an overlooker, was the secretary. Like the savings bank it was run by senior workers. In 1879, James Rushton was President, James Paley, (spinning overlooker) secretary, and the committee of 15 was made up of overlookers, specialist mechanics and warehouse men with only one ordinary ‘millhand’. Among the committee were men who were constantly active in the affairs of the village – Sharp Varley (weaving overlooker), Samuel Baldwin (overlooker), Edwin Cox and John Lambert. Saltaire Men’s Society 11 For relief of the sick. John Wood of 9. Mawson St, Secretary. Members above 18 and under 25 pay 6d per month, and above 25 but under 50 pay 8d per month. During sickness they are entitled to 8s per week for the first six months, 4s for the next six weeks and 2s per week after that. In addition to payments from members, Sir Titus Salt pays the Society 4d per month for each member enrolled. Saltaire Women’s Society For relief of the sick. Thomas Greenwood (overlooker), 22, George St, Secretary. Members over 16 pay 4d per month. They are then entitled to 5s for the first six months of sickness, and 3s per week afterwards. Sir Titus Salt pays the Society 6d per month for every member enrolled. Other organisations which encouraged saving to meet times of need included:- Saltaire Penny Savings Bank. Formed in 1857 by a number of senior workmen with Joseph Dawson, foreman of the wool warehouse as secretary. Post Office Savings Bank Opened in 1861 enabling the GPO to provide a simple savings scheme for ordinary wage earners. By 1914 it had more than 8.5 million accounts, almost 80% of which were under £25. Bingley, Shipley and Keighley Building Society. Established 1851. Opens in Shipley at Yorkshire Bank Chambers, Otley Rd twice a week to collect subscriptions. Branch of Bradford Old Bank. Open daily on Market Place, Shipley. Friendly Societies To ward off the effect of sickness, injury or death amongst working men. The three largest Friendly Societies were the Oddfellows, the Foresters and the Royal and Ancient Order of Buffaloes. 8% of the population in 1815 were in Friendly Societies. Legislation to encourage the formation of Friendly Societies came as early as 1793. This was consolidated in 1850 with an Act of Parliament and a government department was established to administer the Act. By the early 1830s the Oddfellows had 30,000 members and 561 lodges, increasing to 90,000 members and 3,500 lodges by 1842. There were lodges in every county of England. By 1874 there were 489,237 members and 1908 there were 868,190. The Bradford branch of the Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows was the richest in the West Riding and had 27 lodges, 3,382 members and paid out over £3,000 a year in death, sickness and medical benefits in 1850.’ Royal Antedeluvian Order of Buffaloes (The Buffs). Formed in 1822 as a Fraternal organisation who’s mission was Justice, Truth and Philanthropy. They aided members and their families in times of need and supported local charities. Branches were called Lodges, in imitation of Freemasons. Overlookers in Bradford had the Power Loom Overlookers Society and the Amalgamated Overlookers. They had a motto of ‘United to help, not combined to injure’. They had no connection with strikes or trade unions. Their object was to benefit each other in employment and to assist each other in sickness and death. 12 They were originally Friendly Societies. The first was in 1827, Bradford No 1 Overlookers Provident Society; the second in 1833, Bradford No 2 Managers and Overlookers Society; the third in 1862, Bradford No 3 Overlookers Provident Society. All three merged in 1911 to become Bradford and District Managers and Overlookers Society. Some Mills required apprentices to join them. But help still came mainly from relatives or the pawnshop. The peak year for pawn shops came in 1914 when there were 5087 shops operating under licence in Britain. The number declined after this point. Co-ops In the 1830s/40s chandler’s shops were popular. They advanced goods on credit but often the goods were adulterated, over priced and of poor quality – and the same with firms operating the truck system. The Rochdale Pioneers bought good quality food at wholesale prices, cutting out the middle man and avoiding adulteration. Then in 1862 the Co-operative Wholesale Society was formed with similar ideas. This also provided a dividend (a payment Society profits once a year in proportion to the buyers expenditure). It had 400,000 members in 1883, reaching 2.3 million in 1913, 3.2 million in 1923 and 6 million in 1937. Saltaire Industrial Coal Society – Formed in 1864 when W Tiffany (wool sorter) was Secretary. Offices were at 13, Victoria Rd. Members received dividends and bonuses dependant on the amount of coal sold and profits made. In 1871 it had 600 to 800 members. In 1876 and 1877 there were newspaper advertisements under the heading ‘Coal! Coal! Coal!!!’ listing all the types of coal stocked and profits made. Orders received by W Tiffany of 30, Albert Rd. Jabez Copley of 20 George St was then Secretary. With Isaac Constantine they were the organisers of the Society. Independent Co-operative and Industrial Society Ltd – 6, Victoria Rd. Michael Holdsworth of 4, Gordon Terrace (overlooker and later weft room manager) was secretary. Closed in Saltaire in 1881. Leeds Co-operative Society. 8, Victoria Rd. James Wilkinson, storekeeper – Isaac Constantine, President of 33, Victoria Rd. Closed in Saltaire in September, 1885. Windhill Co-operative Society opened a branch at 30/31 Caroline St in May,1881. Abraham Barras was a director. Religion Saltaire Congregational Church. Opened for divine worship in 1859, and by 1860 had a regular weekly congregation of 400, plus a Sunday School with 110 on register. It was the elite church in Saltaire with Titus Junior as a member and principal benefactor and George Morrell and Frederick Wood, Chief Cashier, among the deacons. A number of well-to-do Shipley people also formed part of the communicant membership. Saltaire Wesleyan Methodist Chapel drew its leaders from a wider social circle than the Congregational Church, and included the manager of the wool warehouse, 13 the mill engineer, several of the overlookers and woolsorters and four or five woolcombers. Low Lane Primitive Methodist Church, off Saltaire Rd, Shipley. Opened in 1840 and closed in 1960 when it was demolished. St Paul’s Parish Church, Kirkgate, Shipley Built in 1826 St Walburger’s Catholic Church (Parish of St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross). Built 1878. Saltaire Society of the New Church (Swedenborgians) In his history of this Church, Bernard Leather describes that in 1870 a group of men (many of whom were Salts Mill workers), looking for rooms to rent where religious services could be held. They first used 13, Victoria Rd but in 1882/3 they “took the tenancy of two small rooms in Saltaire Rd, Saltaire which were part of the group of almshouses”. This was also known as Chapel House which held Sunday services for the Congregational Church. It was No 6, Alexandra Square (later renumbered as 29, Victoria Rd). Services were held there until 1924 and Leather describes the rooms in detail. Isaac and Jacob Sanctuary, Albert Cawthra, Robert Power, John Preston (an artist), Ben Preston (writer and poet), Abraham Holroyd (bookseller and stationer), Jonathan Mitchell (warp twister), Richard Barker (warp twister), Seth Bentley (manager Saltaire Bath-house), and James Mattack of Baildon (shopkeeper of various wares and street trader) were the founders. They were articulate, strong minded men with firm political and religious ideas. I understand that Swedenborgianism is an interpretation of the Bible which can be incorporated into other religious beliefs and so the members came from a number of religious backgrounds. In 1901, the group bought land in Park St from the Trustees of Sir Titus’ will and Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Co Ltd, but never built a church there. In 1924 the Saltaire group amalgamated with the Bradford Society of the New Church and opened a New Church at Ashfield Avenue, Frizinghall. Apart from all these formal organisations, there were many societies for Saltarians to join in their leisure time. Fire Brigade – S Shackleton, Foreman, 29, Victoria Rd. Floral and Horticultural Society – Founded 1861. Renamed the Horticultural, Pig and Dog Society in 1873 and then the Horticultural, Pig, Dog, Poultry and Pigeon Society in 1876. W Tiffany, 30 Albert Rd, Secretary. “It had about 100 members, most prominent among them were long serving and skilled employees such as Eli Lambert, Isaac Constantine, John Hanson, James Ellis, Sam Baldwin and James Rushton. Men of this type were most likely to be allocated and to keep the allotments which the firm provided, though they could not establish a total monopoly since there were 100 allotments and 38 piggeries along the canal-side. It had an annual show and exhibition which was a highlight of the village social life. In addition to a produce competition (judged by the Head 14 Gardener from Methley Park) there were athletic events attracting a nationwide field and games were arranged for the children”. (Reynolds) In 1869 there were also horses jumping hurdles and a velocipede race. From 1867 to 1876 it was “held in a field owned by Mr Titus Salt situated on the Baildon side of the River Aire – the entrance to which was rather difficult and inconvenient owing to the fact that the construction of a new bridge is going on just now” (Bradford Observer). This presumably was what, since 1871, was Saltaire Park (later Roberts Park). There were no shows between 1877 and 1881, but in 1882 it was held on a recreation ground on Albert Rd. Cricket Club – William Parker, Secretary. It was destined, like the gymnastics club and the brass band, to achieve national fame. It was founded in 1865 with 140 members and promise by Salt to provide a playing area. It was reorganised in 1871 when the firm began to take a more positive interest in its affairs. The managing director, Charles Stead became President and Titus Salt was on the committee. The firm (under Sir James Roberts) provided a ground in the new park and generous financial help. The Half Moon Café was built for the Club. (There is a book by Patsy Quinn called ‘Run of the Mill’ which describes the history of the Club but which unfortunately concentrates on professional players like Sidney Banks and doesn’t mention the ordinary members at all. It does however have a photo of the Veterans team which is worth looking at). String and Reed Band – Anthony Hill of Caroline St was bandmaster. Saltaire Brass band. Challenged the already famous Black Dyke Mills band for pre-eminence in national competitions. It was originally founded in 1855 and called the Saltaire Brass Band, supported financially by Titus with £1,000 per year. There were two bands originally – a drum and fife band for the boys and a brass band for the men of the village, all of whom worked in the Mill. It began to enter national competitions, gaining first prize at the Crystal Palace in London in 1861, and second prize at the Belle Vue September Contest in 1872. There were numerous prizes at more local contests, but from the early 1870’s it was no longer entering national competitions. In 1894 it was disbanded, and the instruments were called in by the Company. Then there was a time gap until 1932 when it reformed as Salts Silver under the tuition of Mr HB Hawley, and they used to practice in the Royal Café (Salt’s old dining hall on Victoria Road). It changed its name to Salts (Saltaire) Band and was very successful on the national scene. Mr Hawley continued as its sponsor, but in 1946 he decided to form a new junior band and link this with his thriving business – he was managing director of Hammond’s Sauce Company. Some of the original senior band members transferred to this new band and Hammond’s Sauce Works Band was born, to go on to national fame and recognition. Hawley died in 1981, leading to changes in the management at Hammonds, and sponsorship was finally withdrawn in the early 1990s. Fortunately Yorkshire Building Society came in with a new offer to sponsor, and the name changed to the Yorkshire Building Society Band, and then to the YBS Band. 15 In January, 2009, the band was renamed the Hammond’s Saltaire Band. Gymnastics Club. Housed at the Institute it became a leading club in the north of England. Glee and Madrigal Society – John Johnson, Secretary. In 1869 J Giles of 47, George St was secretary. Saltaire Prize Choir Formed in 1877 as the Saltaire Wesleyan Choir, this choral group went on to achieve huge successes on the national musical scene. All over Britain, competitions were held with cash prizes, encouraging groups to form in order to win substantial rewards. The Wesleyan Choir became the Saltaire Prize Choir in 1889, and here are a few of their most notable achievements:- • Held at Hawes, the Hardraw Scar Brass Band and Choral Contest was set in an natural outdoor amphitheatre. Saltaire Prize Choir won first prize in 1890, and went on to compete here with the same success for many years. • In 1891, they performed at the Welsh National Eisteddfod in Swansea and picked up a second prize. They endured a 10 hour train ride to get there, performing before 30,000 people in a canvas tent in the rain. • At Tanfield, near Newcastle, they were invited to the mansion of Sir Frederick Milbank, Bart, there they sang and were given the freedom to explore the house and gardens. • After winning first prize at Morecambe in 1896, they returned home by train at 1-30am on Sunday morning to be greeted on the station by hundreds of supporters to welcome them back. In the pouring rain the crowd demanded a short concert on the railway bridge where the choir sang “The Sea Hath its Pearls” by Pinsuti and “Great God of Love” a madrigal in 8 parts by Pearsall – all without copies and under umbrella canopies. But perhaps the best know of their achievements was their performance at the Second Annual International Music Traders’ Exhibition, Royal Agricultural Hall, London in July, 1896, where they were awarded first prize of a Gebruder Knake white grand piano, worth 100 guineas. Angling Association – GH Bayley of 12 Victoria Rd and J Hall of Market St, Bradford were agents. Jack Reynolds notes that “There was a fishing club with one of there woolsorters as secretary which provided sport for about 100 men. It was supported by Titus Junior who established a trout farm at Milner Field and kept a stretch of the River Aire inside the Park stocked with fish”. Thirty-ninth West Riding Rifle Volunteers – J Crowther, Captain. Established in summer 1859. Edward Salt, George Salt and Titus Junior Salt held commissions in it for short periods and 90 young men in the village joined the ranks. Its armoury was located in Victoria Hall. Sir Titus provided beer for the men on manoeuvres. Shipley Musical Union Club. Wainman St. Established 1880. Gentlemen only. 16 Shipley Temperance Union. General Committee meets at Rosse St School. Established 1892, for the promotion of temperance and general moral well-being of the community, by efforts of an educational, remedial and preventative character. In 1906 the Shipley Temperance Union was located at The People's Hall, Otley Road, between Dale Street and Cross Banks. (thanks to David King for this information). President Mr George Morrell. There follows extracts from overlooker biographies, with their involvement in local organisations highlighted Baldwin, Samuel 1815 – 25 July 1888 Samuel Baldwin was born c1814 in Guiseley. He married Sarah Greenbough 2 February 1840 at Christ Church Bradford. They had five children. By 1861 they were living at 34 (renumbered 60) George Street in Saltaire with Samuel working as an overlooker. In August 1864 Samuel won a prize at the Saltaire Horticultural Show for his roses. By 1871 Samuel and his family had moved to 28 Victoria Road (renumbered 45 in 1880 then renumbered 71 in 1898) in Saltaire. In March 1879 Samuel was elected as an officer of the Saltaire Funeral Brief Society. Samuel died 25 July 1888 at 6 Mawson Street in Saltaire Barras, Abraham c1846 – 20 January 1925 Abraham married Sarah Horne 1 June 1868 at St Wilfrid’s Calverley. They had six children, with one dying as an infant. They lived all their lives in Windhill. In March 1885 Abraham was appointed to represent Windhill on the Central Committee of the Shipley Liberal Party. In February 1895 he was elected onto the Shipley School Board. He began work as a boy at Saltaire Mills in the spinning department and was a spinning overlooker for many years. On leaving Saltaire Mill he took up the insurance business for upwards of 20 years. In his early manhood was a prominent member of the Windhill Young Men's Institute. Later he became associated with the Windhill Wesleyan Mission, and for nearly 60 years was a well-known local preacher. He was also actively identified with the local cooperative movement and was a director of the Windhill Co- operative Society for 23 years. He was for many years a member of the Shipley Veterans Association, and during the absence of Mr. Hulme (chaplain) conducted the weekly services. Boddy, John 1843 – January 1915 John worked at Saltaire Mill for fifty four years in various jobs; warehouseman, weft man, worsted overlooker and clerk. He was an active member of the Saltaire Wesleyan Church and at one time or another held practically all the offices open to a layman. Amos Brear 17 Amos died 14 March 1919. Report from the Shipley Times 21 March 1919 as follows: - Originally a worker in Saltaire Mills, at which he became a spinning overlooker, he commenced in 1866, along with his brother, the drapery business in Saltaire Road. Mr. Brear was held in great respect and esteem by the tradesmen of Shipley, and this feeling found expression in 1906 when he was elected President the Tradesmen's Association. His connection with the Association dated from its formation. At the time of his death Mr. Brear was the senior deacon of the Saltaire Congregational Church, and he had served on the deaconate for 37 years. For over 20 years he was also treasurer of the church. With the church and Sunday school at Saltaire he had indeed been closely connected for over 65 years, Mr. Brear was a director for the last 15 years of the Bingley Building Society, a meeting of which he attended a fortnight before his death. A lifelong Liberal, and a member of the West Ward Liberal Club, he unsuccessfully contested two Urban Council elections in 1899 and 1913. After he was 50 years of age, he became a keen and enthusiastic cyclist, and rode many thousands of miles, Carr, John Francis 1896 – 26 October 1917 John was born c1896 in Saltaire. In 1911 he was living with his parents at 60 George Street in Saltaire. John Francis was employed as a worsted piece overlooker in Saltaire Mill. He was well known as the scorer for the Saltaire Cricket Club Second X1. He was also connected with Saltaire’s Men Own and the Saltaire Horticultural Society. Carr, Henry 1855 – 1924 During WW1 Henry served as secretary of the Shipley & District Ambulance Corps. Mr. Carr was one of the founders and the first secretary of the Shipley Gala Committee when it was formed in 1885, and up to these last few years had always taken an active part in the annual gala. He was also for several years’ secretary of the Yorkshire Voluntary Charitable Association, having to resign owing ill-health. As an ambulance worker. Mr. Carr had gained several honours for long and valued service. Constantine, Isaac 15 November 1827 – 5 November 1898 Isaac was a wool sorter, which was his occupation throughout his life. Isaac was a keen gardener. Living in Saltaire he won first prize for his potatoes at the Airedale Floral & Poultry Show 19 August 1856. This was the first of numerous awards he won for his vegetables. In the 1861 census Isaac and his family were living at 5 (renumbered 10) Edward Street in Saltaire. Isaac was active in politics and in local affairs. In April, 1866 he chaired a meeting to consider the Government’s Franchise Bill as part of the National Reform League In March, 1871 he chaired a meeting celebrating the Saltaire Branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Limited and the Saltaire Industrial Coal Society 18 Limited. Isaac was director of the Saltaire branch of the Leeds Co-Operative Society. By 1871 Isaac and his family had moved to 33 (renumbered 76) Victoria Road in Saltaire, where they remained the rest of their lives. In April 1874 at the annual meeting of the Saltaire Club and Institute Isaac was elected as one of sixteen committee members. At the funeral of Sir Titus Salt (5 January 1877) Isaac was one of twelve foremen of the works invited to officiate as a bearer, to carry the coffin into the Saltaire Congregational Church from the hearse. In July 1882 Isaac was reported as presiding at a meeting of the Saltaire Coal Society. In January 1886 Isaac was elected to and appointed auditor for the Shipley Liberal Hundred. Throughout his life Isaac was involved with Saltaire Cricket Club and in 1893 was vice chairman. Frank Dickinson Report from the Shipley Times 3 June 1953 as follows: - The award of the 0.B.E. to Mr Dickinson, of 58 Marlborough Road, Shipley in the birthday honours announced on Monday will be welcome news to many of Mr. Dickinson’s friends and business associates. He became the first full-time secretary of the Bradford and District Power-Loom Overlookers' Society in 1915. and in 1949 he was appointed a director of U.K. Wool Disposals, Ltd. Mr. Dickinson has been secretary of the Yorkshire Association of Power-Loom Overlookers ever since its inception in 1921. He was one of the founder members of the National Association of Unions in the Textile Trade 1916, was its chairman from 1943-46 and is still an Executive member. Mr. Dickinson served the Wool Control Board in both world wars; He was connected with the formation of the Wool Textile Industrial Council and has been a member of the management committee of the General Federation of Trade Unions since 1936. He has been a member of Bradford Employment Committee since 1920 and a member the Appellant Tribunal, for conscientious objectors' appeals since 1940. In Shipley Mr. Dickinson is a vice - president of Northcliffe Amateur Bowling Association and a member of Shipley Musical Union. He was born in Saltaire and commenced work at Saltaire Mills when he was 10 years of age. Frank died in 1962. Doyle, Thomas Francis c1855 – 6 March 1933 Mr Doyle lived in Shipley for well over thirty years and was a departmental manager at the firm of Messrs. Salt’s (Saltaire) Ltd. He was perhaps best known for his political activities. In 1913 he contested the West Ward as a Labour candidate and was elected a member of the Shipley Urban Council, but on four subsequent occasions he was returned unopposed as an Independent candidate for the same ward. In all he served on the Council for 14 years, and rendered valuable service as chairman of the Baths, Public Health, and Promenade Concert Committees, and vice-chairman of the Education Committee. During the war he was a member of the Military Service Tribunal. 19 A very keen musician. Mr. Doyle was a past president of the Shipley Musical Festival, with which he was associated for many years. He was also a member of the committee of the old Saltaire Institute Society, and a past president of the Mills Male Voice Choir. Mr. Doyle was also a former chairman the Shipley I.L.P, a past president of the Saltaire Mills Bowling Club: member of Laycock’s Debating Society, Bradford: a speaker on political economy; a member of the Astronomical Society; and a member of the old Shipley Operatic Society. As a young man he was an enthusiastic Rugby Union player and played wing three-quarter for the Buttershaw Club. His brother, Eddie Doyle, was the famous Bradford and Yorkshire full back. Ellis, Fred 19 Mar 1853 – 1947 He began work at eight in the Saltaire Mills and became a combing overlooker ten years later. He retired on a pension in 1927, after 66 years’ service without a break. In his younger days he was a notable cricketer. He assisted in the formation of the Saltaire Cricket Club and played with the first team as batsman and wicketkeeper until he retired from the game in 1887. In those days the club consisted largely of employees of the Saltaire Mills, and the team was known as the “Millboys in white.” In 1877 he played with the Saltaire and district “XV.,” which defeated the full Notts County team, and he scored nearly 100 runs against the bowling of Billy Barnes, Morley, and Flowers. Two years later he was selected by the M.C.C. to play with a team of All-England colts at Lord’s and scored an outstanding success. Ellis, Edwin 27 April 1855 – 19 September 1940 Edwin Ellis was the son of Joseph Ellis a wool warehouseman. In 1871 & 1881 they were living at 21 Victoria Road with Edwin working as a piece hooker then a weaving overlooker. In 1891 they lived at 14 Almshouses (renumbered 37 Victoria Road). In 1901 & 1911 Edwin was a weaving manager living with his family at 34 Albert Road (renumbered 67). Around 1914 they moved to 29 Avondale Road in Shipley where Edwin would spend the rest of his life. Report from the Shipley Times 28 May 1920 as follows: - “In the year 1864, before he was nine years of age, young “Ted” came to work in the mills as a half-timer and attended the school for half-timers held by the firm in the building now known as the Royal Café in Victoria Road. At this tender age he worked in the drawing room of the spinning department, but after a few months, and before he attained the solemnity of ten years, he became a jobber, which occupation he followed for some four years. At thirteen he was transferred to the weft room of the weaving department and was employed there in pegging bobbins. From the weft room he advanced to piece- hooking and weavers wages clerk, and at sixteen years of age, some 49 years ago, he took up the practical side of weaving. At that time the workers were employed on the noted Donskoi wool, when three pieces per day were turned off the loom. This employment lasted some six months, 20 and in 1873 his future was definitely decided, when, on Sir Titus Salt’s 70th birthday, young Ted became an apprentice weaving overlooker. For nine years, including his apprenticeship, he worked on ladies’ goods in the Dresses Department, and subsequently for eleven years was employed on men’s wear in the Coatings Department. A further period was spent in charge of the Pattern Weaving, and on December 13th, 1894, a few months after the advent of Mr. James Roberts and his co-directors, Ellis was promoted to be the manager of the whole of the Weaving Departments, which position he has held up to the present time, making a total length of service of 55 years. Natural capacity and determination resulted in a very wide and thorough technical knowledge, and this was recognised by the local authorities when, at the inception of the Shipley Technical School in 1887, Mr Ellis was placed in charge of the textile Department, and he held this position for five years. He is a well-known character in old Saltaire, and in his younger days played in the first eleven with the Saltaire Cricket Club. He was in the team on the memorable occasion when they put out Scarborough for eleven runs. Mr. Edwin Ellis is leaving with the tale of fifty-five years to his credit, and his brother, He was presented with a gold watch. Excell, John (Jack) 1 May 1879 – 6 March 1959 Mr John Excell, of 10 Springcliffe Street, Green Lane, Baildon, who died on Friday at the age of 79, retired last July after 69 years unbroken service at Saltaire Mills. He came of a family with a remarkable record of service, even at a firm where there is a tradition for generation to follow generation. His father, who lived to be 95, actually helped to build houses in Saltaire. and worked at the mill for more than 73 years. Mr. Excell’s sister worked there for 47 years, and his son, Mr. Harold Excell, has been at the mill for 50 years. Mr. John Excell was at Delph Hill, Baildon, and started working in the drawing department at the mill when only ten years old. For more than 40 years he was a carding overlooker. In his youth, Mr. Excell played cricket with Baildon Green. He was a member of the New Prosperity Lodge of the Shipley District. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, Manchester Unity, and of the Wood bottom Veterans’ Association. Ferrand, William c1821 – 27 February 1903 In 1861 William was a spinning overlooker living with his family at 46 George Street (renumbered 72) in Saltaire. From 1881 they lived at The Green in Baildon where William was a wool buyer and merchant. William died 27 February 1903. Report in the Shipley Times 6 March 1903 as follows: - Mr Ferrand was well known and respected among all classes in the village, having held various public offices. He was throughout his life a sterling Liberal, and his death awakens memories of political struggles in the days before the household franchise was given to the counties, in which he took an active part. Born at Cottingley, he had early in life to begin to earn his own livelihood, which he did first in a humble way as weaver, then as hand comber in Bradford. He was 21 employed at Messrs Forster Fison’s when that firm removed from Bradford to Greenholme, Burley in Wharfedale. He graduated from one position of trust to another until about the year 1860, when he obtained the appointment of wool buyer at Saltaire Mills, a position which he held for many years, ultimately retiring from the firm to commence a business as a woolstapler on his own account in Bradford. Mr Ferrand was a member of the Baildon Local Board for about twelve years and was a district representative on the Wharfedale Board of Guardians over nine years. He was also on the executive committee of the old East Division of the West Riding Liberal Association and of the Otley Division Liberal Executive Committee, and for many years a prominent member of the Otley and Baildon Liberal Clubs. George, Alexander c1840 – 28 March 1910 Alexander was a clothier with a shop on Commercial St, Shipley. By 1874 Alexander and his family were living in Saltaire. He was very active politically and felt strongly about a number of issues. He was a staunch Liberal He was prosecuted and fined for refusing to have his children vaccinated against smallpox. In August, 1903, he presided at a mass meeting of 7,000 people welcoming home two men who had been imprisoned for refusing to have their children vaccinated. He was president of Saltaire Industrial Co-operative Society He objected to half-timer children being compelled to attend Albert Rd Board School. He presided at the Sunday Lectures held at the Temperance Hall He spoke at the meeting held at Wellcroft Field involving 2,000 attendees objecting to the House of Lords refusal to pass the Franchise Bill. He presided at a meeting of the Shipley Liberal Association to elect members of the Liberal Hundred. In January 1900 Alexander was elected President of the Shipley Tradesmen Association at their annual meeting. He supported the candidature of Tom Townsend for re-election as the Liberal representative for the West Shipley Division on the County Council. Gilbert, George 24 March 1857 – 24 August 1927 Report from Shipley Times 6 December 1901 as follows: - Employees of Saltaire Mills met at the Victoria Hotel to bid farewell to two of their older overlookers, Mr. Arthur Nutter and Mr George Gilbert who had been employed at the mill forty and thirty-six years respectively. Mr Nutter left to take charge of the weaving department at Buttershaw Mills and Mr Gilbert to an appointment at Yorkshire College. Hanson, John 1833 – 21 January 1919 John Hanson born in 1833 in Keighley. Aged just eight he worked for Daniel Salt (father of Sir Titus) in Bradford and subsequently he worked for Sir Titus too. When Saltaire Mills opened in 1853, John was the first overlooker in the spinning department. Later he would become an overlooker in drawing and combing. 22 In 1861 they were living at 6 Titus Street in Saltaire, in 1871 at 6 George Street. John was the oldest member of the Overlookers’ Union in the Bradford when he died 21 January 1919. Edwin Holdsworth c1839 – 8 April 1920 Report from the Shipley Times 16 April 1920 as follows: - Death of a Shipley Veteran. At the advanced age of 81 years, Mr. Edwin Holdsworth, 40 Victoria Road, Saltaire, died at his residence on Thursday in last week. For 46 years he was employed as a weaving overlooker at Saltaire Mills. Mr. Holdsworth was connected with the Rosse Street Baptist Church, Shipley, ever since its erection in 1866, and he was a life deacon of the church and one of the first trustees. When the Sunday School was opened, he took charge of the infants’ class, with which he kept up his connection for the long period of a quarter of century. For some years he was teacher and superintendent. In November 1878, he was appointed superintendent of the Sunday School, a position which he held until November 1906. The deceased was one the oldest members of the Shipley Veterans’ Association, member of the Tree of Life Lodge, of the Shipley District 1.0.0. F. (M.U.), and of the Saltaire Liberal Club. Holdsworth, Michael c1822 – 1896 In 1871 Michael was living with his family at 4 Gordon Terrace (renumbered 57 Bingley Road), Saltaire. In 1871 he was an overlooker; 1881 a weft room manager, and by 1891 he had retired. Chaired a public meeting of the Liberation Society in March, 1864 President of the Saltaire Band of Hope in May, 1866 President of the Saltaire Branch of National Reform League in February, 1867 which advocated residential registered manhood suffrage protected by ballot, and that the position taken by the government was vague, indefinite and unsatisfactory. Gave a lecture to the British Temperance League in February 1867. Chaired a meeting of the Shipley and District Temperance Society in July, 1868 Addressed a meeting of the Shipley and District Temperance Society which set up a Band of Hope at a tea meeting in September 1868 Was secretary of the Saltaire Independent Co-Operative and Industrial Society Limited – 6 Victoria Road; Michael Holdsworth, 4 Gordon Terrace Michael & Martha lost their son, Alfred aged 24, in May 1878. His body was found in a canal in Birmingham. He was a cabinet maker and he had found employment. At the inquest into his death an “open verdict” was recorded. Ince, John 19 December 1862 – 18 May 1926 In 1891 John was a spinning overlooker, in 1901 a worsted foreman spinner, and 1911 was spinning manager. He is active in Saltaire Wesleyan Church. Lamb, Joseph 23 27 August 1877 – 1939 His father, John, played cricket for Baildon Green, then he was a “pro” for Manningham, and he was subsequently coach to Oxford University. John died in 1918 and Harriet in 1929. In 1911 they were living at 48 George Street in Saltaire. By 1914 they had moved to 3 Myrtle Place in Saltaire, where they remained until 1934. From 1935 they lived at 13 Albert Road. Joseph worked at Salt’s Mill for over 50 years. He started as a doffer aged just 10 in 1883. He was a spinner overlooker for over 40 years. Like his father Joseph was a keen cricketer. He played for Saltaire when Sydney Barnes was captain of the club. Mansfield, Alfred c1839 – 11 September 1915 In 1871 the family were living at 19 Amelia Street in Saltaire with Alfred working as a worsted spinning overlooker. By 1881 they had moved to 4 Lockwood Street where they remained the rest of their lives. Alfred was a faithful member of the Rosse Street Baptist Chapel for many years and he was secretary of the Shipley Veterans Association. Minakin, Fred 1860 – 21 March 1903 Fred died 21 March 1903. He was a twisting overlooker at Salts Mill. As a sportsman he was on several occasions well to the front and was at one time first in the averages of the Saltaire cricket team, that being during the time of the membership of Harry Mosley and other well-known cracks. He was also owner of several prizes and medals which he had won in the sports at Saltaire Park, but his supremacy in any branch sport was only short-lived, though when he was at his best in any particular branch of athletics he was looked upon as a hero at Saltaire. At the formation the Saltaire Football Club be was installed as secretary and held that position throughout the whole career of that now defunct club, and although he did not take any part in the working of the affairs the club, he was referee in the Yorkshire Rugby Union. Joining the Shipley & District Working Men's Club as assistant secretary, which be held for 3 or years, afterwards taking over the office of secretary, which he held at the time of his death, having been 7 years in that office. He was also a member of the Shipley Brass Band Social Club and was for many years’ auditor for the Baildon Working Men’s Club. He leaves a widow and two children. Mosley, Henry (Harry) 8 March 1850 – 1 June 1922 Local cricketers who can recall the Saltaire Club in the eighties will learn with regret of the death of Mr. Harry Mosley, who about 30 years ago was a professional for Saltaire, and was regarded one of the best left-arm bowlers that time, he being associated with Dickie Barlow, who also was one of Saltaire’s professionals. Mr. Mosley was a native of Shipley, and was employed as a drawing overlooker at Saltaire Mills, and about 30 years ago he emigrated to Sanford, Maine, U.S.A., 24 where was employed a similar capacity for an American firm, where eventually he became manager over the drawing department, and retired pension some time ago. He was succeeded as manager by his son. Regarding his cricketing career, a local enthusiast informs that Mosley played as a professional for 17 seasons—from 1874 to 1890 inclusive. He was considered the most destructive left arm bowler in the whole of the Aire Valley. In 1881 he was tried for Yorkshire County, for his bowling. Pearson, Robert Crowther Wilkinson 5 April 1841 – 15 November 1897 Mr Pearson, who was 58 years of age, had followed the employment of spinning overlooker at Saltaire Mills for about twenty years. About three or four years ago he went to Manningham Mills as a sweeper out. The deceased only arrived back on Wednesday last from London, where he had been spending a month with his son. In his younger days Mr Pearson was a vigorous Radical, the interests of which party he consistently advocated and promoted up to the time of his death. He was member of the Working Men's Club Redman, Ogden 1847 – 12 October 1890 Ogden was not an overlooker. He was employed as a wool sorter at Salts Mill. His only involvement in village life was in the Saltaire Industrial Co-operative Society. He was appointed a compounder (along with Holdsworth and Stell) when a motion was put forward to wind up the Society in August 1876 he moved to Dalry in Scotland, where he was involved in the Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Society in 1888. Rushton, James Wilkinson 15 August 1825 – 22 September 1893 James married Sarah Whiteoak 18 January 1846 at St Wilfrid’s Calverley. They had a daughter, Ellen Elizabeth, born 23 September 1847. In 1851 they were living at One Street in Bradford with James working as an alpaca sorter. In 1861 they were living at 28 (re-numbered 54) George Street in Saltaire. Sarah, James’s wife, died in 1869. She was buried 1 September. In 1871 widowed James was a wool sorting manager living at 19 Victoria Road, Saltaire. James married widow Amelia Smith (nee Ellison) 28 March 1872 in Bradford Cathedral. They had a son, Charles, born in 1875. Amelia died in 1877. In 1881 & 1891 James was living at 74 Victoria Road in Saltaire. James married Sarah Drake 11 January 1882 at St Paul’s Shipley. Report from the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer - Friday 30 September 1887: - Presentation of a portrait on the occasion of his retirement after 53 years service in Salts Mill as foreman woolsorter. He had joined the firm before Sir Titus created Saltaire - in fact be was the oldest employer about the premises. James died 22 September 1893 aged 68 years. He lived at 32 Moorhead Crescent, Shipley (formerly of George Street, Saltaire), Sanctuary, George 1857 – 12 October 1932 25 Spinning overlooker with 60 years employment at Salts Mill. Secretary of the Prize Choir and member of Congregational Church choir. He was a staunch Liberal and his wife was one of the founder members of Shipley Women’s Liberal Association. Stell, John c1850 – November 1917 John’s father George had been a spinning overlooker, and John was a spinner in 1861. He had a varied career. He then worked as a merchant’s clerk, before becoming cashier in a worsted factory in 1891; in 1901 he was a manager in a braid factory and in 1911, he was an electrical cable manufacturer. In 1878 he was involved in Saltaire Industrial Co-op, and was appointed one of the auditors when it was decided not to close the Society. For many years he was churchwarden at St Paul’s Church in Shipley and a teacher in the Sunday School. At the annual vestry meeting of St Paul’s Shipley in April 1885, John was nominated as one of twelve sidesmen. At the annual meeting of the Shipley Conservative Association in January 1889 Edward Salt was elected as President and John Stell was elected as one of two auditors. By 1897 John was living with his family at Wellington Crescent, Shipley. At a special meeting of the Shipley District Council in May 1897 John was part of a three-man deputation who addressed the council about the condition of the back street of Wellington Crescent. In 1914 he was elected as secretary of South Ward Unionist Polling District Association William Tiffany rd th (3 October, 1835 to 27 June, 1899) Secretary of Saltaire Floral and Horticultural Society and Saltaire Industrial Coal Society. 1851 William was a spinner aged 16. 1861he was a wool sorter aged 26. 1869 he lived at 31, Helen St 1871 Census he was working as a wool sorter and living at 30, Albert Rd (renumbered 59). He was the eldest of 3 children who were employed as factory operatives. He marries Susannah Airey and they had 10 children – Joseph (1858); Susannah (1859); Emily (1862); Fred (1864); Martha (1866); George (1868); Mary Ann (1870); William Arthur (1872); Elizabeth (1874); Lavinia (1877); Edith (1879 died Dec 1879). Wife died 1884 and he remarried Sarah Locker 1881 census William still a wool sorter and living at 68, George St. Varley, Sharp c1836 – 1881 Sharp Varley was born c1836 in Bingley as Sharp Cowgill, son of Mary Cowgill, father unknown. Mary married William Varley 2 October 1836 at St Michael’s Haworth. Sharp then took the Varley name. 26 In 1851 they lived in Wilsden with William working as a labourer and Sharp as a power loom weaver. By 1861 they had moved to 1 (re-numbered 27) George Street in Saltaire with William working as a farm labourer and Sharp as a weaver. Sharp married Elizabeth Illingworth in 1866. They had four children. In 1871 & 1881 they lived at 57 Titus Street with Sharp working as a weaving overlooker. In May 1875 Sharp was reported as being a past provincial grand master of the Bingley branch of the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. In March 1879 Sharp was elected as an officer of the Saltaire Funeral Brief Society. Sharp was associated with Saltaire Cricket Club in a non-playing capacity. th Sharp died 4 Qtr. 1881. Others Bentley, Seth 28 October 1833 – 23 June 1897 Seth Bentley was the son of James Bentley. James was born c1793 in Baildon. He married Sarah Robinson 19 May 1912. Seth, the youngest of 10 children, was born 28 October 1833 in Baildon. He was baptised 10 November 1833 in Otley. Seth married Hannah Pollard in 1862. They had two children: Fred born c1864 and Sarah b c1869. In 1871 & 1881 they lived at 26 Caroline Street in Saltaire. By 1891 they had moved to 5 Bingley Road in Shipley. By 1897 the family has moved to 29 Bradford in Shipley. Seth died 23 June 1897. He was buried in Nab Wood Cemetery in Shipley. The following article was published in the Shipley Times 26 June 1897: - ‘For some years he was a worker in the Saltaire Mills, under the late Sir Titus Salt, who had a high regard for him, and who selected him for post of manager of the public baths and wash house built by the late firm. For over twenty yean Mr Bentley filled this position, which brought him in contact (often friend and helper) with nearly every family in the place. Seven or eight years ago, when the baths were closed, he went into business on his own account as a laundry proprietor. Mr Bentley was man of strong religious convictions. Many years ago, he became follower of Swedenborg, and was one of the founders of the New Jerusalem Church at Saltaire. He remained an active supporter of that church to the end, and he will be much missed by the community which meets there. In politics he was a staunch Radical, a strong anti-vaccination, and land reformer. Early in 1891 he headed an important deputation of influential working men from Shipley and district to invite Mr Byles to become a candidate for the Shipley Division, on the retirement of Joseph Craven. He was at the same time, and for the express purpose of advocating this candidate, elected a member of the Executive of the Shipley Division Liberal Association, of which he was afterwards for several year the president. Mr Bentley, who enjoyed good health during the whole his life until his last illness, left behind him widow and one daughter. His only son was killed in America in 1891’. 27 Rhodes, Sutcliffe 26 March 1837 – 19 September 1916 Sutcliffe married Alicia Ann Wallace 13 January 1862 at St Paul’s Shipley. They had five children. In 1851 he was a woolcomber. Letter in the Bradford Observer Thursday 04 April 1867: - Sutcliffe makes a plea for woolsorters who are laid off when demand is poor and re- employed when it picks up again. He was living at Ada St. Letter in the Bradford Observer Thursday 25 July 1867: - Sutcliffe wants investigation into anthrax – ‘clouds of dust and keenly penetrating hairs’ which cause woolsorter deaths. th And on 30 January, 1868, he reports that a philanthropic gentleman and an eminent physician are interesting themselves in the problem. Then on 12 March, 1868, he writes to praise the discussion taking place to look for solutions to this problem, albeit with the rejection of a mask. Report in the Leeds Times Saturday 26 December 1874 of a meeting at the Temperance Hall devoted to discussion of the woolsorter’s disease, at which detailed medical evidence was advanced. Sutcliffe was one of the main speakers. Letter in the Bradford Observer Thursday 05 March 1868: - A plea for the creation of a place in Shipley for young men to meet for self improvement, similar to the Saltaire Literary Institute. Writing from Baildon. In 1871 Sutcliffe was a wool sorter living with his family at 14 Wycliffe Place in Shipley. Letter in the Bradford Observer Thursday 25 November 1875 entitled ‘Slavery in the Spinning room’. Sutcliffe deplores the practice of overworking child spinners and physically abusing them. He cites the sight of an emaciated form of a spinning girl rendered helpless by the scandalous abuse of an overlooker. And the dying spinner boy who said the ‘Ellis Brook has pawsed me right hard’. Sutcliffe is living at Mildred St, Bradford in 1875. In 1881 Sutcliffe was a commercial traveller living at 10 Orchard Street in Bradford. Alicia, Sutcliffe’s wife, died 3rd Qtr. 1890. In 1891 Sutcliffe was living alone at 130 Mildred Street, Bradford. He married Harriet Lord 9 May 1891 at All Saints, Bingley. Report from the Bradford Daily Telegraph Saturday 19 March 1892, that Sutcliffe was before the Bankruptcy Court for public examination and was allowed to pass. He admitted having appropriated money belonging to the Liverpool, Yorkshire and Lancashire Tea Company but was re-engaged by them at less salary, the difference going to pay off his defalcations. In 1901 Sutcliffe was living alone at 19 Moorhead Lane in Shipley. Sutcliffe married his third wife, Charlotte Squires, in 1910. In 1911 he was living with her family at Sibsey in Lincolnshire. (Sibsey is a village 4m north of Boston. In 1911 it had a population of 1,004). Sutcliffe died 19 September 1916 aged 79 years In conclusion There is ample evidence that overlookers performed essential management roles in Salts Mill. 28 Without their innovative and organisational skills in the community, life for Saltaire residents would have been much less rich and rewarding. They are the unsung heroes of the Saltaire story. We shouldn’t forget the broader picture too. Bringing large numbers of workers together in factories stimulated an awareness of their shared condition. It encouraged their involvement in the political process, in the growth of trade unions, in manhood suffrage and the National Reform League, and ultimately in the Independent Labour Party in 1893. The more radical and active Saltaire overlookers played a role in this journey, as their biographies reveal. Roger Clarke February, 2020 29
2020.7: The Dayton Coal & Iron Company Limited (Rhea Co; Tenn; U.S.A.) Certificate of Shares
The Dayton Coal & Iron Company Limited (Rhea Co; Tenn; U.S.A.) Certificate of Shares
Charles Stead's original share certificate in the Dayton Coal & Iron Company Ltd purchased in 1884. The certificate is sealed with a large red seal decorated with a castle. The certificate includes Salts Alpaca logo within the decoration on the left-hand side. Charles Stead was the Senior Manager for Salts and he accompanied Titus Salt Junior on a trip to Dayton on behalf of Sir Titus. After Sir Titus' death Charles Stead worked with Titus Salt Junior on the development of Dayton.
2020.8: Milner Field - The Lost Country House of Titus Salt Jnr
Milner Field - The Lost Country House of Titus Salt Jnr
This book covers the origins and history of Milner Field House, from its original owner/occupier Titus Salt Jnr. in 1874 until the last occupier in 1930. The book then covers the decline and demolition in the 1950s
2020.9.1: A Report on the Condition of the Roof Structure to the Mill Building, Victoria road
A Report on the Condition of the Roof Structure to the Mill Building, Victoria road
A Report on the Condition of the Roof Structure to the Mill Building, Victoria Road,Saltaire for Shipley College. Includes original photographs pasted into the booklet. Produced by Robinson Consulting Engineers
Dining Hall building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2020.9.2.1: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Proposals
Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Proposals
J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.2: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
10 copies of plan DRG.No. 97517-4 - A plan of the cross-sections of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.2.1: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
Laminated copy of plan DRG.No. 7517-4 - A plan of the cross-sections of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.3: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-5 - A plan of the ground floor of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.4: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-6 - A plan of the First floor and the Mezzanine level of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.5: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-7 - A plan of the Ground floor of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.6: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-8 - A plan of the First floor of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.7: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-9 - A plan of the Existing plan and the Proposed plan of the Lower Ground Floor of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.8: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-10 - A plan of Rooms SB01 and SB02 of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2020.9.2.9: Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment: Plans
A copy of plan DRG.No. 97517-11 - A view of the Art and Design area of the building from: Report and plans for Shipley College Mill Building Refurbishment - Nov. 1997 produced by J.H. Langtry-Langton Partners, Architects and Project Managers
2021.12: Salt & Silver - A Story of Hope
Salt & Silver - A Story of Hope by Jim Greenhalf. Containing the story of Titus Salt and Jonathan Silver and their relationship tSaltaire Mill
Images of Bingley by Helen Mills and Heather Baldwin. Containing photographs covering the social life of the people of Bingley
2021.14: Sir H. Norman Rae 1860-1928 - Our Local Benefactor
Sir H. Norman Rae 1860-1928 - Our Local Benefactor
Sir H. Norman Rae 1860-1928 by G. Shuttleworth and M. Walker. Covering he life of the man who gave Northcliffe Park to the people of Shipley
2021.15: Balgarnie's Salt - with commentary and additions by Barlow & Shaw
Balgarnie's Salt - with commentary and additions by Barlow & Shaw
Balgarnie's Salt - with commentary and additions by Barlow & Shaw, bringing more information to the original Balgarnie biography of Sir Titus Salt
Copyright Nemine Juvante (Saltaire) Publications
Clapham, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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
City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Library Division
Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl by Maggie Newbery. The story of an East Riding girl who comes to work in a Bradford Mill
Bradford As It Was by Gary Firth - A pictorial survey of old Bradford
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
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.
Direktoratet for patent - og Varemoerkevoesenet: Front
Direktoratet for patent - og Varemoerkevoesenet: Rear
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
Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' silk scarf
Silk scarf printed with 'Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' surrounding the Salt Coat of Arms, multiple times
Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition site, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Early plan of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition main grounds
Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' silk scarf: Close up of one panel of the scarf
2022.2: Saltaire And Its Founder by Abraham Holroyd
Saltaire And Its Founder by Abraham Holroyd
An account of Titus Salt and the founding of Saltaire
Saltaire And Its Founder by Abraham Holroyd: Front cover
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.
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.
Copy of handwritten letter to the Saltaire Congregational Church from Edward Salt in regards to a water pipe
'The Long Watch' a book on the Sailors' Children Society of Hull : financed by Titus 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.
A1-080: The Late Sir Titus Salt Bart, Founder of Saltaire
The Late Sir Titus Salt Bart, Founder of Saltaire
Booklet: 'The Late Sir Titus Salt Bart, Founder of Saltaire' B. Allsop, Publisher
Booklet: 'Sir Titus Salt Bart and George Moore' by James Burnley
Booklet: ' Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt Bart.' by Abraham Holroyd
A1-083: Saltaire - A Jubilee Sketch History
A booklet called 'Saltaire, A Jubilee Sketch History', with brief descriptions of its Origin and Developments. This is a Jubilee Souvenir booklet to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Salts Mill. On the front cover is the French honours given to Salts, including the Croix de la Legion d'Honneur.
3 copies of the Saltaire section of 'Historical Notices' by J.Horsfall Turner
A1-085: Sir Titus Salt and the Orphans of Hull
Booklet: 'Sir Titus Salt and the Orphans of Hull' by Craig McHugh
Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Laminated poster for 'Sir Titus Salt and the Orphans of Hull' by Craig McHugh
Photocopy of Saltaire pages from 'Roundabout Bradford' by William Cudworth
Photocopy of article: 'Traces of Salt in London' by Barlo and Shaw Saltaire Journal V.1 No.1
Display board of the 'Saltaire' Stromness Lifeboat & Station. Sir TItus Salt donated money for the provision of a lifeboat at Stromness in the Orkney islands
Laminated copy of the coat of arms of Titus Salt Jnr.
Photocopy of 'Subscriptions towards the Testimonial to be presented to Sir Titus Salt, Bart'
A1-121: Notebook with notes on Salts family
Small notebook 'Garment Workers Wages Book' containing notes on the Salts family + others
Copy of 'Memorandum & Suggestions for Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co September 1883. The original document (and more details) are available as item 2024.65.
2 photocopies of Statement & Schedule for Reconstruction for Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co Nov. 1892
Hand-written sheets showing the Family Tree of the Salt family
Printed copy showing the Family Tree of the Salt family
2 photocopies of an undated newspaper cutting: 'The Testimonial to Mr Edward Salt'
Photocopied dual-photograph of 'Sir Titus Salt 1803-1876'
Laminated photograph of ' Mr Titus Salt 1843-1887'
Medallion commemorating the erection of a statue of Titus Salt in Bradford Town Hall Sq (4cm) Shows full-height statue and plinth; Around the edge: 'Erected by the people of Bradford in honour of Sir Titus Salt Bart.' ; Date at the base of the meddalliaon -1874. On reverse: A bust of Sir Titus Salt and the words 'Sir Titus Salt Bart'
Medallion commemorating the erection of a statue of Titus Salt in Bradford Town Hall Sq (2.5 cm). Shows Salt statue on plinth. Inscription around the edge reads: 'Erected in Honour to Sir Titus Salt Bart' 'Bradford 1874.
Extract of the Reverand Balgarnie's book: 'Sir Titus Salt - His Life and its Lessons'
Letter & photos from Patricia Salt Charles claiming relationship to Sir Titus
Collection of information sheets on the Salt statue medal
Small laminated card of portrait of Sir Titus Salt
Newspaper cutting of article: 'Money makers who left more than their cash' (incl. Titus Salt)
Newspaper cuttings on the Death of Titus Salt Junior. (Nov. 1887)
Newspaper cutting on D.G.C. Salt (Dec. 1976)
Original copy of sheet music from 'Theodora' by Handel - Item marked 'Mrs Titus Salt' in pencil. The piece of music is for Piono and the part of Theadora.
A pack of 29 photograph-cards of 'Titus Salt 1803-1876'
A framed photograph of Titus Salt (1873)
A framed photograph of Caroline Salt (1873)
A framed photograph of Catherine Salt nee.Crossley
Laminated copy of portrait of Daniel Salt (The father of Titus)
Laminated copy of portrait of Caroline Salt (The mother of Titus)
'Titus Salt' by Harry Speight (taken from Web pages)
Original booklet: 'Sir Titus Salt, Baronet - His Life and Works' (no cover) (Publised by B. Allsop)
Laminated spiral booklet: 'Will of Titus Salt' (1887)
1 original booklet of : 'Titus of Salt' (ed. Roger W. Suddards) + letter dated 1988, from Roger Suddards regarding his donation
Newspaper article from the Telegraph and Argus, dated December 29th 1990 written by Mike Priestley. The article explores new work on Saltaire by John Styles author of 'Titus Salt and Saltaire - Industry and Virtue' which challenges the notion that Salt's paternalism was purely benevolent. The article contains a black and white photgraph of Sir Titus Salt and an engraving of Saltaire dating from the late nineteeth-century.
Telegraph & Argus cutting: 'Let old Salt go back home' (moving statue to Saltaire) 30th December 1995
Telegraph & Argus cutting: 'Sir Titus statue must stay in exile' (16th September 1999)
A2-002: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Plan of Milner Field Estate (George Belk Smith - Estate Agent & Surveyor) Laminated Copy
A plan of Milner Field House (the mariied home of TItus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt) by William. Illingworth - Architect & Surveyor. Scale is 15 feet to one inch for the ground floor plan, which occupies most of the page. There is a smaller scale plan of the first floor in the upper left of the page.
A2-006/2: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Reply from Womersley & Co. of Leeds for Mrs Salt
Plan of Estate from sale catalogue, showing the entire estate for the 1922 sale and the lot numbers
A2-011: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Poem written about Milner Field and the surrounding landscape by George Lister. George and Edna Lister lived at Lodge House Milner Field during the 1950s and the poem was shared with the archive by David Nutton.
A2-012a,b,c: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Inventory of Milner Field Estate, amended 02/09/1963 (by Mr A.J. Wilson?) Original & copies
A2-013: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Red binder containing miscellaneous items on Milner Field, including architect's drawings, correspondence, and extracts from The Builder
A2-015: Chilling tales of an ill-fated mansion
Photocopy of press cutting [no date/publication details], 'Chilling tales of an ill-fated mansion', re: Milner Field (two copies)
A2-016: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest
Set of photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe (laminated copies, undated):
Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
A2-016/1: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest
Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Entrance
A2-016/2a-b: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest
Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Main house + 1 Photocopy
A2-016/3a--b: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest
Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Conservatory + 1 Photocopy
A2-017: Salt Family - Residences; Methley Hall
Methley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom: Methely Hall
A2-022a: Furniture at Temple Newsam House
Extracts from Furniture at Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall by Christopher Gilbert, from Volume II (1978) & III (1998) - The Salt Furniture by Marsh & Jones
A2-023: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field
Pencil drawing of Mrs Titus Salt, with description of stained glass panels at Milner Field
A2-031: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
'A Short History of the Gardens of Milner Field, Gilstead ..' by Alistair McKinna
A2-032: 'Milner Field-Walking in the Footsteps of Titus Junior' by Alan Cattell
'Milner Field-Walking in the Footsteps of Titus Junior' by Alan Cattell
A2-033: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
Laminated copy of a postcard addressed to' Mrs Salt Milner Field Bingley'
A2-034: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
Laminated copy of a plan of Milner Field Estate
Copy of 'Painted Glass decorations from Milner Field House' (Builder)
A2-038a: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Laminated copy of a 'Painted Glass decorations from Milner Field House' (Builder)
A2-039: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
Set of original photographs of the modern ruins of Milner Field
A2-040: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
A2-043: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of a drawing and outline plan of Milner Field House (The Builder)
A2-044: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of a drawing of Milner Field House (The Builder)
A2-045: The south face of Milner Field in about 1885
The south face of Milner Field in about 1885
Photograph of Milner Field house in about 1885 showing the south face. Milner Field was built for Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine. They and their family would have been resident in 1885.
A2-046: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
News-cutting from 'The Target' on finding the glass window (see A2-024)
A2-047: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
Laminated photograph of Salts family dish with coat of arms
A2-048a-b: Salt Family Redidences: Milner Field
Photograph of Emma Johnson, Cook of Methely Hall + Laminated coy
A2-085a-b: Salt Family Residences: Great Tows House
Salt Family Residences: Great Tows House
2 Photocopy photographs of 'Great Tows House' A farm belonging to Caroline Salts' father
Collection of research notes containing five small copies of estate maps of Milner Field estate (from 1868 to 1922) as well as prepatory research notes on the model farm at Milner Field prepared by Alan Catall over the course of writing his book 'Sir Titus Salt and Sons: A Farming Legacy' (published 2017). There is a copy of the book in the Shipley College Library (ref no 942.746).
A2-090: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Handwritten copy of notes from: 'The Diary of Dr. J.D. Heaton' re. visit to Milner Field (1875)
A2-091: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Handwritten notes on the stained glass at Milner Field - with drawing of 'Mrs T Salt'
A2-092: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Collection of cuttings & photocopies on Milner Field
A2-094: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Four black and white copies of photographs on paper and photopaper the image of the rear aspect of the house has been taken from the park lawn, and the house is partially screened by hedging. The two images of the garden show the large glass house.
copy of note card with a green ribbon and a black and white etching or drawing of Milner Field House, dated October 9th 1895
A2-096: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of item on Milner Field from 'Castles and Country Houses in Yorkshire' (1885)
A2-097: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of extract from the biography of Sir Fred Hoyle re. Milner Field
A2-098: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of cutting re. sale of Milner Field in 1866 (Bradford Observer 6th Dec. 1866)
A2-099: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Photocopy of cutting re. objection to building houses at Milner Field ( Telegraph & Argus 4th Jan. 1996)
A2-107: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Framed photograph of Princess Beatrice planting a tree in the grounds of Milner Field 1887
A2-108: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field
Framed photograph of royal carriages at the entrance to Milner Field 1887
A3-005/1c/1-6: Salt Family: Royal Visits
Correspondence from Sir Henry Ponsonby at Buckingham Palace to Mrs Salt (plus laminated copies of: 2 transcriptions + 2 part copies + 1 envelope):
Copy of Exhibitor's Ticket (Charles Eastwood, No. 73) & letter from Mrs Naylor, H. - laminated copy
Copy of Exhibitor's Ticket (Charles Eastwood, No. 73) - laminated copy
Laminated copy of a bookmark from Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, Saltaire [on display within glass cabinet]
Enlarged reproduction of Illustrated Supplement to the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer & The Ilkley Free Press (May 6th 1887) pages 1-4
A3-020: King George VI & Queen Elizabeth tour Saltaire Mills
King George VI & Queen Elizabeth tour Saltaire Mills
Page of set of six photographs labelled 'King George VI & Queen Elizabeth tour Saltaire Mills'
Poem (printed), 'A Welcome', for Prince & Princess of Wales on visit to open Technical School, Bradford + 3 enlarged copies of the hand-written version
Edward VII, King: Prince Edward planting a tree in Saltaire
Royal visit 1882 by Prince of Wales (future Edward VII)
Royal visit 1882 by Prince of Wales (future Edward VII): Prince and Princess of Wales planting a tree
A3-022a-c: Address from Bradford Corporation for Royal visit
Address from Bradford Corporation for Royal visit
Address of the Corporation of Bradford to be presented to their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales
Enlarged and a small photograph of decorations at the bottom of Victoria Road for visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Photocopy of items from The Illustrated London News of the visit of the Prince & Princess of Wales to Bradford-July 1882
Pages from 'The Graphic' of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Saltaire 1882
A3-028: The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition 1887
The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition 1887
'The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition 1887' by Letitia Lawson
Photocopy of letter to the Prince of Wales from Mrs Salt re. Royal College of Music
Photocopy of letter to Mrs Salt from Andrew Carnegie in New York
photocopies of a collection of telegrams re. acceptances for invitations to Milner Field for Royal Visit
Photocopy of to Mr & Mrs Salt from Andrew Carnegie in New York
Photocopy of autographs of Princess Beatrice & Prince Henry of Battenberg
Autographs of Princess Alexandra & unknown
Invitation to Mr & Mrs Salt to meet the Prince & Princess of Wales at a reception at Bradford Town Hall
Photocopy of photos of Sir Titus & Lady Salt
A3-051: Titus Salt Junior. & Catherine Salt
Photocopy of photos of Titus Salt Junior. & Catherine Salt
A3-052a,b,c: Royal Tree planting at Milner Field
Photograph of Royal Tree planting at Milner Field (with extra child added between Catherine and the other son to original photogtaph)
A3-052d: Royal Tree planting at Milner Field
Photograph of Royal Tree planting at Milner Field with a copyright form dated 1887 for Charles Bridges 55, North Parade, Bradford. Produced by the National Archives, London
Photocopy of photos of Princess Alexander and Henry and Beatrice of Battenberg
Photocopy of photos of two unidentified young girls (Salt daughters?)
A3-055a-e: Envelopes from Marlborough House
5 empty envelopes from Marlborough House addressed to Milner Fields
Letter from Mary Rouse of Firby Hall, Bedale to 'Kate' Salt (??)
Letter from W.E.Forster to Mr Knollys re. Royal visit to Yorkshire
A3-058: Letter to Titus Salt Junior about Royal visit
Letter to Titus Salt Junior about Royal visit
Letter to Mr Salt from Nigel Knight? Re. Royal visit
Letter to Mr Salt from ??? at Privy Council Office re. Royal visit
A3-060: Letter from Lord Northbrook about Royal visit
Letter from Lord Northbrook about Royal visit
Letter to Mr Salt from Lord Northbrook declining invitation to Milner Field at time of Royal vist of the Prince and Princess of Wales
A3-061: Letter to Titus Salt Junior about Royal visit
Letter to Mr Salt from ???? declining invitation to Milner Field at time of Royal vist of the Prince and Princess of Wales
A3-062: Letter from Clara Jowett about Royal visit
Letter from Clara Jowett about Royal visit
Letter to Mrs Salt from Clara Jowett expressing appreciation for invite on Royal visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales
Letter from Mrs Salt to Lady Suffield (?) re. book of autographs by royal visitors
A3-064: Letter from Ingelby about Royal visit
Letter to Mrs Salt from Ingleby of Ripley Castle re. royal visit to Milner Field of the Prince and Princess of Wales
A3-065: Letter from Charles Edwards about Royal visit
Letter from Charles Edwards about Royal visit
Letter to Mrs Salt from Charles Edwards (??) re. royal visit to Milner Field of the Prince and Princess of Wales
A3-066: Letter from Christopher Sykes about royal visit
Letter from Christopher Sykes about royal visit
Letter to Mrs Salt from Christopher Sykes re. royal visit to Milner Field of the Prince and Princess of Wales
A3-067: Letter from Archbishop of York about Royal visit
Letter from Archbishop of York about Royal visit
Letter to Mr Salt (?) from Archbishop of York re. royal visitof the Prince and Princess of Wales to Bradford in 1882. The Royal couple stayed with Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt at Milner Field.
Letter to Mr Salt from Henry Ponsonby accepting invitation for Prince and Princess Henry of Battenberg to visit Milner Field
Letter to Mrs Salt from Alice Savile re. request for royal autographs for a friend + friends letter
Letter to Mrs Salt from Charles Edwards (??) re. photographs of royal visit to Milner Field
Letter to 'Kate' Catherine Salt from her sister Isabella Fison
Hand-written aide-memoir for etiquette for royal visit?
Letter to Mrs Salt from Lady Alice Bective re. clairvoyence. (Alice Bective was a member of the Executive Committee of the North of England Soc. for Women's Suffrage).
Letter to Lady Alice Bective from Mrs Salt re. royal visit & etiquette
Note from Sir Frederick Nappier? accepting an invitation to dine with Mr & Mrs Salt on the 5th May (Note dated 21 March 1886 (sic))
Letter to Mrs Salt from ??? re. the comfort expected by a royal visitor
Note from Lord Fitzwilliam unable to confirm an invitation to dine with Mr & Mrs Salt on the 5th May
Note from Lord Fitzwilliam accepting an invitation to dine with Mr & Mrs Salt on the 5th May
2 letters from Lord Ripon to Mr Salt re.visit of Princess Beatrice to Saltaire
Letter from Mr? Houghton? Confirming visit to Milner Field by Princess Beatrice
Letter from Lord Ripon accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
3 letters to Mrs Salt from Cecillia ?? Re. royal visit
Note from the Company of Simpson of Birks Hall, Halifax accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Maj.Gen. Daniell in York accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Maj.Gen. Charles Daniell in York re. invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Letter from Maj.Gen. Charles Daniell thanking Mr & Mrs Salt for their hospitality
Note from Col. Harrison of Rawdon Hall accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Capt. Stewart Russell accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Capt. Farrer A.D.C. accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Sir Frederick Bramwell ? accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Capt. Saunders accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Maj. Foster of Hornby Castle accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Mr. Pesel of Bradford accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Col. Hirst of Westwood accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Officer commanding Milner Field Guard, Bradford Barracks, accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Col. Edwards accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Note from Maj. Foster of Burley in Wharfedale accepting invitation to Milner Field for royal visit
Letter from Sir Henry Ponsonby to Mrs Salt re. royal visit by Princess Beatrice
Laminated Photocopy of a photograph of Princess Beatrice & Prince Henry of Battenberg
Laminated Photocopy of a photograph of Princess Alexandra
Laminated Photocopy of photos of dresses worn by Catherine Salt
Laminated Photocopy of a print of the Prince of Wales looking at Lily Langtry
Laminated Photocopy of a photograph of Lily Langtry
Laminated Photocopy of a print of a painting of Lily Langtry
Laminated Photocopy of a print of Lily Langtry as 'The Jersey Lily'
Official Programme for the visit of HRH The Princess of Wales to 'Saltaire Workshops' 'Fashion Services For the Disabled' 4th March 1987 + 2 newspaper cuttings on the visit
Card with photograph of 'Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition' Medal + printed detail of medal
A3-121: Arrangements for the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition
Arrangements for the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition
Mounted card with details of 'Extracts from William Fry's Arrangements for the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition' (June 1886)
Large mounted board of: 'A Palace of Delight's (Layout of the grounds of the Exhibition of 1886)
A3-123a-c: Photograph of the Chinese sculpture
Photographs of the Chinese sculpture from the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition of 1887
3 copies of a photograph of the 'Chinese Carving' from the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition of 1987
Folder of cuttings & photocopies of items re. Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition
Posctcard of a drawing of Princess Ann visiting Saltaire 22nd June 1977
Photograph of Royal Jubilee Exhibition 1887: 'Attendants Badge'
A folder of damaged pages from 'The Wharfedale & Airedale Observor' for May 6th 1887 on: 'The Royal Visit to Saltaire'
A folder of photocopies of items on the Royal Jubilee Exhibition of 1887
A folder of cuttings of items on the Royal Jubilee Exhibition of 1888
A packet of 5 small photographs of Princess Beatrice
A3-134: Visit of George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Saltaire Mills
Visit of George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Saltaire Mills
2 photos of the visit to Salts of King George VI & Queen Elizabeth (1937)
Copy of Supplement to the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer re. Royal Visit of 1887
2 laminated copies of Supplement to the Wharfedale & Airedale Observer re. Royal Visit of 1887
News Cutting on the Royal Visit to Shipley (Shipley T & E May 7th 1887)
A4-001a-f: Salt family: Property Interests
6 laminated copies of Sir Titus Salt's Royal Albert Hall box certificate & list of subscribers
Folder of pages from Cudworth's History of Manningham & Heaton re. Titus Salt
A4-003: Mortgage loan by Titus and Edward Salt
Abstracts of Deeds relating to a mortage of a loan of £4,000 by Titus & Edward Salt relating to property in Bowling in Bradford
A4-004: Deed of transfer of the Salts company
Part of a deed of transfer of the Salts company from the Salts family to the Sir Titus Salt Bart Co. Ltd
A4-005: Dayton - The other town that the Salts built
Dayton - The other town that the Salts built
Booklet giving brief history of the developments in Dayton, Tennessee where the Salt family built a large mining and processing enterprise, and an accompanying town for the workers that had similarities to Saltaire.
A4-015b-c: Salt family Property Interests : Royal Albert Hall
Salt family Property Interests : Royal Albert Hall
2 part Photocopy of Subscribers to boxes & stalls in the Royal Albert Hall
A4-016: Salt family Property Interests : Royal Albert Hall
Photocopy of Royal Albert Hall box purchase for £1,000 for Sir Titus Salt Bart. (March 1870)
A4-017a-b: Salt family Property Interests : Royal Albert Hall
2 part Photocopy of names & addresses of members of the Corporation of the Royal Albert Hall of Arts & Sciences, including the 'Exectors of Sir Titus Salt Bart'.
A4-018: Salt family Property Interests : Royal Albert Hall
Photocopy of Register of Probate of members of the Corporation of the Royal Albert Hall of Arts & Sciences, including 'Sir Titus Salt Bart'.
B1-053a: The future of Salts Mill: A Feasibility Study
The future of Salts Mill: A Feasibility Study
Photocopy 'The future of Salts Mill: A Feasibility Study' - Report by KMG Thomson McClintock for City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council
A copy of 'Salts Mill Saltaire: An Architectural Feasibility Study' by DEGW Architecture, Planning & Design of London
B1-061/10: Photographs of Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. mills
Photographs of Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. mills
Pasted photographs of Cross Roads Mill, Damens Mill in Keighley & Uddington Mills, Lanarkshire all owned by Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.
Uddingston, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom: Uddingston factory
Laminated photograph of Saltaire Mill Nursing Division nurses on the back of a lorry (shows a man holding a child)
Laminated photograph of Saltaire Mill Nursing Division nurses on the back of a lorry (Gas lamp standard in the background)
A photocopy containg two photographs of the Burling and Mending department at work and at leisure
Laminated board 'How Salts(Saltaire) has developed' : Yorkshire Observer
Laminated board 'Pioneer Enterprise known the world over' : Yorkshire Observer
News cutting of Prince George visiting Salts Mill
Mounted photograph, 'Roofs of Salts Mill' (c. 1980's?)
B1-207a-b: Workers on railway station platform
4 enlarged photographs of Salt's employees on Blackpool station platform standing as a group next to a steam train. Maximilian and Anna Wagner are identified on the image. This marked the occasion of the 100th aniversary of Salts Mill. The train is decorated to celebrate this. Maximillian worked in the Mill, as a weaver and later a Weaving overlooker after moving from Poland in 1948 until he retired.
2 copies of: 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd booklet c.1950s
Folder of mock-up sample pages for a book 'About Salts of Saltaire' by Percy Lund,Humphries
Photocopy of booklets for 'Bilbille & Co' sample book of cloth swatches
Photocopy of booklet for 'Societe Des Nouveautes Textiles' sample book of cloth swatches
Photocopy of 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd' booklet
Wool Record Survey booklet on 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd'
38 enlarged copies of 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd'
Bound Photocopy of booklet 'Sir Titus Salt Bart, Sons and Co. Ltd'
Photograph of Salts Mill managers c.1920's
Photograph of employees leaving Salts Mill c.1950's
2 copies of photograph of employees leaving Salts Mill c.1930s
Photograph of Salts Mill (named) office staff 1933
Mounted card with 2 photos of staff in Burling and Mending dept, in mill and at Blackpool
Folder of press cuttings and photograph on a television programme about Salts Mill
Photograph of a 'Pirn Winding' machine with operative
Photomontage of various photographs of Salt's processes
Enlarged photograph of notices on a Salts Mill notice board
Enlarged photograph of Salts Mill Spinning Dept
Enlarged photograph of Salts Mill empty Weaving shed
Enlarged photograph of Salts Mill from Caroline Street.
Coloured photograph of Salts Mill medical department
2 copies of photograph of the dismantling of a weaving loom
B1-250a: Burling and Mending Department at Salts Mill 1936.
Burling and Mending Department at Salts Mill 1936.
Photograph of the Burling and Mending Department in Salts Mill. Christmas 1936. There are several women standing at their working positions, with a larger number standing behind them and to the right. Two men, one dressed in a white coat, are stood on the left. Everyone is looking at the camera. There are Christmas decorations hung from the ceiling.
Photograph of the Burling and Mending Dept. Christmas 1937
Enlarged photograph of the sample packing dept.
Enlarged photograph of the Spinning dept.
2 sets of mounte cards showing mill processes
Photograph of Steam Barge towing fly boats at Salts Mill 1936
Photograph of West view of Salts Mill showing office block in centre and New Mill on the left
Photograph of New Mill from the canal bridge
A coloured postcard featuring a view of Salts Mill with 'Saltaire' in large red lettering underneath.
Print of Salts Mill (with location details added)
Print of Salts Mill - black and white copy of an old print
Copy of the Deed of arrangement for the reconstruction of Salts Mill 1893
2 copies of a printed letter from: Wade,Bilbrough, Booth & Co. re. the Reconsruction plans 1893
Statement and Scheme for the Reconstruction of the management of Salts Mill 1892
Copy of Deed of Conveyance of Saltaire village to the Bradford Property Trust
B1-285a-d: Long Service Certificate for Arthur Gresswell
Long Service Certificate for Arthur Gresswell
A Long Service Certificate for Arthur Gresswell from Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. 4 copies
B1-285e: Long Service Certificate for Arthur Greswell
Long Service Certificate for Arthur Greswell
1 framed/copy of a Long Service Certificate for Arthur Greswell
B1-286a-d: Presentation of long service certificate
Presentation of long service certificate
4 Photographs of Emily Tennant and others receiving a long service certificate from Mr Guild
Copy of a long service certificate for Emily Tennant from Salts (Saltaire) Ltd - 7th October 1951
2 letters from Salts management concerning the retirement of Tennant, Emily
'Centenary of Saltaire Mills 1853 to 1953' Order of Service booklet for Saltaire Congregational Church 20/9/1953
11 photographs of the Salts Mill Centenary trip to Blackpool 1953
Poem, 'Tale of the Works Trip', by Lawler, Eddie (with note by Roger Clarke)
B1-290: Employees in Blackpool Pleasure Ground 1953
Employees in Blackpool Pleasure Ground 1953
Enlarged photograph of Salts Mill employees in Blackpool Pleasure Ground 1953
2 photographs of a box marked 'The Property of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Ltd.'
Photograph of the cover of Salts Mill Weigh book
Copy of a plan of Salts Mill by Lockwood and Mawson
Enlarged laminated copy of a print of a drawing of Titus Salt
A project file of information relating to the sale of Salts Mill in 1986. The file is compiled of 11 original documents either created by Illingworth, Morris Co Ltd, the owners of the Mill, or Eddisons the Estate Agents supervising the sale. The last document is a brief biography by John Collins of Pamela Mason (the Hollywood actress and author), executor for the Ostrer family who were the principal shareholders of Illingworth Morris. The information donated was courtesy of Hartley Property Trust Ltd, who alowed John access to their archives.
Display panel on a Telegraph & Argus article on the closure of Salts Mill
A packet of 6 original photos, relating to the closure of Salts Mill.
Photograph showing canal barges unloading coal on the Leeds and LIverpool canal
B1-301: ALPACAS Frequently asked questions
Information sheet : 'ALPACAS Frequently asked questions
B1-302a-d: Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ' Worsted Manufacture
Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ' Worsted Manufacture
Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ' Worsted Manufacture - A Brief Summary '
Original of Salts Mill reference for Mr K. Drozczenko' employment at the mill
Original of Salts Mill 'Compliments slip' for Mr K. Drozczenko'
2 copies of Salts Mill 'BELWARP' advertisement
B1-305: Letter regarding widow's pension
Copy of a letter from Salts Trust Govenors to Mrs M Giles relating to her entitlement to her late husbands pension
1 large, 1 small copy of a print of the mill 'Opening Celebration Luncheon'
B1-340a-c: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
2 large & 1 small copy of Saltaire Mill showing water supply
B1-341: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the river. By W.Rhodes Nunn
B1-342: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the canal
B1-343: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of outline plan of original building of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the canal (DEGW)
B1-344: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan of wooden shedding for dye works at Saltaire Mill
B1-345: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan of extension of a warehouse at Saltaire Mill
B1-346: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan for the conversion of the stable block into cottages
B1-347a-d: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
2 large & 2 small copies of plans for a ladies' lavatory in the Royal Cafe located in the Dining Hall building
B1-348: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case
Copy of plan for the rearrangement of a bathroom in the Salts Mill offices 1902
Original copy of a 'Fire Guard Sector Plan' of Saltaire Mills
Promotional booklets 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd'
Laminated copy of a Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. long service certificate for Mrs Domenica Wakefield
Mounted laminated print of Saltaire Mill in 1853
A photograph of the Burling & Mending Department decorated for the 1953 Coronation + 2 p/copies
A newspaper page on Neil Gaydon a Director of Pace, and his work at Saltaire
Pace Micro Technology: Picture of Pace SR 640 satellite dish
An outline floor plan of Saltaire Mills by Mawson & Lockwood. Published by John Weale
Laminated sheet containing 4 postcards including views of Saltaire and interiors of the mill
Postcard of Saltaire Mills produced by 'Thought Factory Leicester'
Large laminated Photocopy of a print of Saltaire Mills produced by J.Dale & Co. Bradford
Two laminated photocopies of an image of 'Saltaire: Birds Eye View from North East' by W.L.Wylie. From The Graphic
4 photocopies of a photograph of workers coming out of Saltaire Mills c.1950s
Laminated Photocopy of a print 'Saltaire from the NW'
Photocopy of a print 'Saltaire Mills' Engraved by H.Warren from painting by W.M.Lizars.
Photocopy of an engraving of 'Saltaire' from 'Yorkshire Past & Present'
B1-402: 'A Touch of Silver Rescues Salts Mill' 9th July 1987
'A Touch of Silver Rescues Salts Mill' 9th July 1987
Telegraph and Argus article on Jonathan Silver
B1-403: 'The Success story close to a Princes' Heart' 15th October 1996
'The Success story close to a Princes' Heart' 15th October 1996
B1-404: 'From School Dunce to Multi-Millionaire' 25th September 1997
'From School Dunce to Multi-Millionaire' 25th September 1997
Bradford Telegraph and Argus article on Jonathan Silver
B1-405: 'Salts' Boss dies of Cancer' 25th September 1997
'Salts' Boss dies of Cancer' 25th September 1997
B1-406: 'Prince saddened by the Death of Salts' Boss' 26th September 1997
'Prince saddened by the Death of Salts' Boss' 26th September 1997
B1-407: 'The Man Who Lives On In His Mill' 26th September 1997
'The Man Who Lives On In His Mill' 26th September 1997
B1-408: 'Sad Farewell to Salts' Mill Owner' 27th September 1997
'Sad Farewell to Salts' Mill Owner' 27th September 1997
B1-409: 'Jonathan Square is Silver Tribute'
B1-410: 'Look What They Did To My Village'
6 mounted cards on the life of Jonathan Silver 3rd February 1999
B1-411: 'Worth its Salt' + 'Will Council Learn From the Past' 15th December 2001
'Worth its Salt' + 'Will Council Learn From the Past' 15th December 2001
B1-412: 'Sillver, Salt and the Mill' 26th April 2007
'Sillver, Salt and the Mill' 26th April 2007
B1-413: 'Pace Hotting up in TV Revolution' 26th September 1998
'Pace Hotting up in TV Revolution' 26th September 1998
Bradford Telegraph and Argus article on Pace Microtechnology
B1-414: 'Staff Shape-up for Human Landmark' 8th January 1999
'Staff Shape-up for Human Landmark' 8th January 1999
B1-415: 'Pace Makers of Cash with Digital TV Deal' 5th February 1999
'Pace Makers of Cash with Digital TV Deal' 5th February 1999
B1-416: 'Pace set to Axe 470 Jobs' 4th May 2001
B1-417: 'A Change of Pace' 5th May 2001
B1-418: 'Old Mill Flats to Retain Flavour of Textile Heritage' 21st September 1995
'Old Mill Flats to Retain Flavour of Textile Heritage' 21st September 1995
B1-419: 'Boom Time (at Filtronics)' 23rd April 1999
'Boom Time (at Filtronics)' 23rd April 1999
Telegraph and Argus article on Filtronics, an electronics company based in Salts Mill
B1-420: Aerial photograph of 'Firms based in the Saltaire Mills Complex'
Aerial photograph of 'Firms based in the Saltaire Mills Complex'
Telegraph and Argus article on Salts Mill
B1-421a-f: 6 display cards on the life of Jonathan Silver
6 display cards on the life of Jonathan Silver
B1-422: Telegraph & Argus cutting of Tim Eggar visiting Salts Mill (22nd Nov. 1990)
Telegraph & Argus cutting of Tim Eggar visiting Salts Mill (22nd Nov. 1990)
Telegraph & Argus cutting regarding Satellite dishes in Saltaire (15th May 1990)
B1-425: On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes
On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes
Fairbairn, William: Courtesy of Royal Society via WikiCommons
Copy of 'On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes' by William Fairbairn (US edition). Fairbairn was a leading Victorian engineer who helped to design Salts Mill.
On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes: Front cover
B1-426a-b: Photograph of young women in Blackpool
Photograph of young women on Blackpool trip with a buoy around one girl's neck
B1-427a-c: Photograph of young women in Blackpool
Photograph of young women on Blackpool trip wearing Sombreros
2 photos of Salts Mill staff at a Blackpool Theatre
Photograph of Salts Mill ladies on the train to Blackpool
A packet of items re. Blackpool trip from Anna Wagner
Photocopy of 'Rules to be Observed by the Hands Employed in this Mill'
Newspaper cutting on 1953 Blackpool trip
Newspaper cutting from Telegraph & Argus 'Any Millworkers memories?' including photograph of Salts Mill Weavers
2 Laminated photos showing a nurse and patient in Salts Mill medical department
Original & p/c of blank Salts Mill Medical Dept. Accident report form
Original & p/c of Salts Mill Medical Dept. Consultation Hours
Accident report form on employee 9th June 1984
Original copy of booklet: 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Employee Handbook'
Souvenir glass ash-tray for 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.
2 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Centenary 1853-1953' metal badges
Folder of photocopies of items: B1-450 to B1-452
Original copy of 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Employees hand book'
B1-456: ship loading Australian wool bales for Salts (Saltaire) Ltd
ship loading Australian wool bales for Salts (Saltaire) Ltd
Photograph of a ship loading Australian wool bales for Salts (Saltaire) Ltd circa 1952
Copy of photograph of women in the Burling and Mending Department in Coronation Year 1953
Copy of booklet of Lunch menues & recipies for the Canteen (Ref. to Mrs Minni Dibb, Head Cook 1940s-1957)
B1-459: On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes
On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes
The Saltaire section of: 'On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes' by the leadign Victorian mill engineer William Fairbairn. Fairbairn helped to design Salts MIll.
On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes: Front cover
Photocopy booklet: 'Societe des Nouveautes Textiles - Lainages' (1959)
Original brochure: 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd' c.1950 + 1 Photocopy
B1-463a-b: Salts (Saltaire) Ltd - A Wool Record Survey
Salts (Saltaire) Ltd - A Wool Record Survey
A public relations brochure detailing the major modernisation of textile machinery and processes in Salts Mill during the early 1970s. The text describes how the space in the Mill was reorganised to improve efficiency using a 'flow line' principle of production. The entire ground floor of the Mill was restructured. There was large-scale replacement of machinery by up-to-date models. There are photographs of the new machinery, including: 'Scourmatic' large scale scouring machines; 'Volkman' two-for-one twisting machinery; Hattersley and Knowles warping machines and Benninger warping machines; Sulzer weaving equipment; and Mount Hope machines for wet finishing and weft straightening. There are also full-page adverts for some of the equipment suppliers.
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Salts (Saltaire) Ltd - A Wool Record Survey: Back cover - page 20
A booklet: 'Salts Mill and Museum - A short history and guide'. Contains a brief history and black and white photographs. They appear to be photocopies of the original.
3 photocopies of a selection of newspaper cuttings relating to Saltaire Mills (1846-1854)
Photocopy of a photograph of an office with desks in Salts Mill ?
Photocopy of an old print of Saltaire Mill showing wash-house chimney (c.1860s)
Collection of Telegraph & Argus cuttings on the planned museums in Salts Mill
Newspaper page: 'The Perils of Pauline' (Mason) Sunday Times 11th Oct. 1981
Original photograph of a group of Saltaire Mill managers c.1920s outside the bowling green clubhouse
Handwritten note-book with details of the maintenance work carried out by Mr Knowles in Salts Mill between 1951 and 1980. In the back of the notebook is a small copy of the interview notes made by Roger Clarke about George William Knowles.
A poem: 'Tale of the Works Trip' by Lawler, Eddie 2006. About a trip to Gordale Scar in the Yorkshire Dales in 1848
Sleeve of copied photos of the various mill photos
Photocopy of 2 photographs of Salts Mill employees on Blackpool trio
3 large Laminated photographs of the Salts Mill Offices from Victoria Road