Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10863 Date 1878- Description A new primary school on Albert Road in Saltaire was opened in 1878, its creation supported by husband and wife Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt. It has remained a primary school until the present day. When it opened, Children at the Albert Road schools were taught in mixed classes of around 40 children, although boys and girls were still seated in separate halves of the room, and corporal punishment was forbidden. At the time, the Shipley and Saltaire Times reported that people were doubtful whether this new approach to education would work. Shortly after their opening, the same newspaper printed a report on the schools and retracted their earlier criticism. Identifier PAR102 Title Albert Road School Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6756 Description The public museum is a former worsted spinning mill in Bradford. It contains permanent displays of textile machinery, steam power, engineering, printing machinery and motor vehicles as a testament ot Bradford's industrial heritage. Identifier PAR19 Title Bradford Industrial Museum Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12717 Date 1928- Description A real estate and property company originally operating in the Bradford area. In 1933 the Bradford Propery Trust purchased most of the houses and shops in Saltaire from the textiles business of Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Identifier PAR137 Title Bradford Property Trust Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10987 Date 1868- Description The Telegraph & Argus is a daily newspaper for the Bradford area. Identifier PAR118 Title Bradford Telegraph & Argus Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6757 Date 1932- Description A family-run photographic business founded in 1932 and based in Bradford. Well known for its photography for industry, commerce and advertising. The company was involved in aerial photography of the Bradford district, including Shipley and Saltaire. Identifier PAR20 Title C.H. Wood (Bradford) Ltd Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6758 Date 1974- Description The local government authority for the Bradford area which includes Saltaire. The council was formed in 1974 as part of the national local government reorganisation. Saltaire had previously fallen under Shipley Urban District Council. Identifier PAR21 Title City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6759 Date 1883- Description Company founded in Dayton, Tennessee, United States owned by the Salts company. The company manufactured iron and stell, based on the large local deposits of iron ore and coal. The Salts made major investements in the company which were partly to blame for the subsequent financial difficulties of the textile business in the UK. The Salts gave up their interest in the Dayton company in 1892 and sold the textile business the following year. Dayton was the site of rich coal and iron deposits. Its original developers obtained a loan from Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Ltd, but they went bankrupt. The directors of the Salts company, including Titus Salt Junior, took over the Dayton firm and made large investments to develope the site. They built: two large blast furnaces with a capacity of 250 tons of iron ore per day, three fire brick kilns and 200 coke ovens were constructed as well as 200 homes, a manager's house (costing $15,000), a company store, a schoolhouse and other social amenities. What had been a small hamlet grew into a sizeable town over a very short period. In 1892 the Salt business partners had to surrender their interests in Dayton due to the collapse of Sir Titus Salt (Bart) Sons and Co. Ltd. The investment the company had made in Dayton was a significant factor in the Salt family’s loss of their business and the estate of Saltaire. Identifier PAR22 Title Dayton Coal and Iron Company Limited Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/8028 Date 1898-1988 Description Fowler Calculators was a Manchester company that was founded as the Scientific Publishing Company in 1898 by William Henry Fowler. Besides their range of calculators, they were well known for their range of engineering pocket books that they published annually. Their address was 53 New Bailey Street (1900-9 at least) and their works were later in Hampson Street, Sale. They went into liquidation in 1988. (http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page17.html) Identifier PAR77 Title Fowler Calculators Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/7491 Identifier PAR63 Title Glyn, Thomas and Company Limited Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/7144 Description Illingworth Morris was a large Textiles business. Between 1957 and 1986 it owned and operated Salts Mill. Identifier PAR30 Title Illingworth Morris and Company Limited Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/8029 Date 1865-1989 Description Joseph Parkinson founded his engineering company in 1865. The business specialised in making machinery for the booming textile industry. Identifier PAR81 Title J. Parkinson and Son Limited Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6761 Description Major company of architects in nineteenth century Bradford. Responsible for key buildings in Bradford, such as teh Town Hall, The Wool Exchange and St George's Hall, and most of Saltaire. Identifier PAR23 Title Lockwood and Mawson Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12716 Date 1893-1897 Description Isaac Smith, John Rhodes, John Maddocks and James Roberts were Bradford businessmen who formed a consortium to purchase the business of Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Co. Limited from the Salt family in 1893. They became directors of the company after the purchase. Smith and Maddocks resigned in 1897 and sold their shares to Roberts. Rhodes resigned in 1902 and also sold his shares to Roberts who then remained as sole owner until 1918. Identifier PAR136 Title Messrs Smith, Rhodes, Maddocks and Roberts Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10986 Date 1791- Description The Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for the United Kingdom. Identifier PAR119 Title Ordnance Survey Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10828 Date 1980-2015 Description Pace Microtechnology Ltd was a Bradford-based company that originally sold software for early Apple personal computers. During the 1980s the company began designing and manufacturing data communication modems and later satellite TV receivers and video recorders. By the late 1990s and into the 21st century, PACE collaborated with major, well-known tech giants such as BSkyB and Amstrad. This local business had become an international multi-million-pound enterprise and put Pace at the front of the digital revolution. From the late 1980s Pace based its business in Salts Mill. They became the first major tenant of local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver who purchased Salts Mill in the late 1980s following its closure as a working textile mill. The huge success of Pace and the company's presence in Salts Mill played an important role in the transformation of Saltaire from an old, decaying industrial mill and village into a thriving modern enterprise and desireable place to live. Identifier PAR100 Title Pace Micro Technology Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12587 Description A privately run cafe based in the original Salts Mill Dining Hall on Victoria Road in Saltaire. Identifier PAR133 Title Royal Cafe Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/13583 Description The successor school to the Salt High Schools following the education reforms of 1944. It subsequently became the comprehensive Sir Titus Salt school and is now located just outside Saltaire on the north side of Roberts Park. Identifier PAR145 Title Salt Grammar School Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/7497 Date 1876- Description The Salt High School opened in 1876. Initially it occupied temporary accommodation, mainly in the Saltaire Club and Institute. In 1878 it moved into the building on Victoria Road that had originally been built to house the Factory School for Salts Mill. The High School was open to both boys and girls although they were educated separately. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original buildingis part of Shipley College, a further education institution. Identifier PAR73 Title Salt High School Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/13698 Description The Saltaire Club and Institute opened in 1870 and was based in a large new building on Victoria Road, above Salts Mill. The building is now referred to as Victoria Hall. Although not part of the temperance movement, Titus Salt was staunchly opposed to the construction of a public house in his village, having seen many workers in Bradford drink their wages away as soon as they were paid and fail to provide for their families. Residents were free to drink at home or at pubs outside the village but Salt hoped they would be attracted by the more immediate Social Club and Institute. The founding rules of the Club and Institute stated that its objects were 'to afford to the inhabitants of Saltaire, and its neighbourhood, the means of social intercourse, mutual help, mental and moral improvement and rational recreation, also to afford facilities for holding meetings of Friendly and other Societies'. There was a small quarterly charge for membership, whch was open to men, women and young people over the age of 13. The building housed rooms for billiards, bagatelle, chess and drafts, reading, classrooms, an extensive library, a laboratory and a large hall for lectures and concerts. In the 1880s it housed the Schools of Art and Science before they moved to the purpose-built Exhibition Building. Identifier PAR146 Title Saltaire Club and Institute Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10988 Description Titus Salt was a member of the non-conformist Congregational Church. He commisioned an elaborate church building which was built opposite Salts Mill. Since 1859 it has been the home of the Saltaire Congregational Church and its successor organisation the United Reformed Church. Identifier PAR121 Title Saltaire Congregational Church Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10985 Date 1869- Description Saltaire Cricket Club was founded in 1869 and still operates today. It's home has always been Roberts (orginally Saltaire) Park where it has a scenic pitch and pavillion with a backdrop of the River Aire, Salts Mill and the United Reformed Church. Among its more famous players was the England bowler Sydney Barnes who played for the club between 1915 and 1925 and helped Saltaire win the Bradford League three times. Jim Laker, the outstanding England spin bowler of the 1950s, lived in Shipley, attended the Salt High School and played for the Cricket Club in the late 1930s. The club remains very active today playing in the Aire & Wharefdale Senior Cricket League. Identifier PAR104 Title Saltaire Cricket Club Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12731 Description Voluntary group active in Saltaire in late twentieeth century recording the memories of residents of the village and workers at Salts Mill Identifier PAR139 Title Saltaire Memories Group Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6762 Description The Church is located in Saltaire on land originally donated by Titus Salt (who was not a Methodist). The original methodist chapel was replaced by the current building in the late twentieth century. Identifier PAR24 Title Saltaire Methodist Church Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12583 Description A choir organised from the workers at Salts Mill. Identifier PAR129 Title Saltaire Mills Male Voice Choir Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10972 Description An amateur musical society based in Saltaire in the early twentieth century. Identifier PAR120 Title Saltaire Philharmonic Society Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6638 Date 1923- Description From 1923, the successor company to Sir Titus Salt Bart. and Sons Co. Ltd. A consortium of businessmen bought the business from Sir James Roberts in 1918. The company was floated on the stock exchange and changed its name in 1923. Identifier PAR14 Title Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12584 Description The in-house fire-fighting team in Salts Mill Identifier PAR130 Title Salts Mill Fire Brigade Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6763 Description Shipley College is a college of further and adult education based in several buildings in Saltaire. Opening in 1969, it was a successor to the Technical School based in the Exhibition Building. As well as this building the College also uses the former Salt High School and Dining Hall premises on Victoria Road, parts of Victoria Hall, and the new, purpose-built Jonathan Silver Building on Exhibition Road. Identifier PAR25 Title Shipley College Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12734 Description The local organisation responsible for overseeing the provision of education in the Shipley area, which included Saltaire. Succeeded the Shipley Schools Board. Identifier PAR138 Title Shipley Education Committee Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10998 Description A local newspaper published in Shipley Identifier PAR123 Title Shipley Times and Express Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12715 Date 1895-1974 Description Shipley Urban District Council was the local authority for the Shipley area, including Saltaire, from 1895. In 1974 it was abolished in a reorganisation of local government and Shipley became administered as part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. Identifier PAR135 Title Shipley Urban District Council Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10997 Date 1853-1923 Description Salts Mill was originally owned and operated by Titus Salt, Sons & Company. In 1869 Titus Salt was awarded a baronetcy, and the company was renamed Sir Titus Salt Bart. and Company Limited. Although there was a change of ownership in 1893 and again in 1918 the name was retained until 1923 when the owning company was floated on the stock exchange as Salts (Saltaire) Limited. Identifier PAR122 Title Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/7498 Date 1868- Description Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital was opened in Saltaire in September 1868 and provided crucial medical help many decades before the foundation of the National Health Service. Identifier PAR33 Title Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/10864 Date 1876- Description After Saltaire had been built, additional school places were required. A School of Art and Science was built at the edge of the village was completed in 1887. It became the Technical School, and contained a School of Art. Later known as the Institute of Technical Education and is now part of Shipley College. Identifier PAR101 Title Technical and Art School Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/7499 Identifier PAR66 Title W. J. Morley & Son Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/6764 Date 1889-1974 Description The council was the county-level administrative body that contained Shipley and Saltaire. It was abolished in 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation. Much of its responsibilities passed to the new West Yorkshire County Council which functioned until 1986. Identifier PAR26 Title West Riding County Council Type organisation -- Url https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/12585 Date 1909-1956 Description A local newspaper published in Bradford during the early to mid twentieth century. Identifier PAR131 Title Yorkshire Observer Type organisation --