Salt High School building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

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Identifier: PLA70
Place name: Salt High School building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Type: place
Description: The Salt School building on Victoria Road opened in 1868 as the location for the Factory School associated with Salts Mill. Before this, the Factory School was housed in the Dining Hall further down the road.

There were both day scholars and half-timers, who would work at the mill for half a day and attend school for the other half. Boys entered on the right and girls on the left and the school was designed to cater for 750 children initially. In 1874, there were 806 half-timers and 454 day scholars, with an average attendance of 665. The schools were constructed with state-of-the-art technology: hot water central heating, gas lighting, and tip-up lavatories.

In 1878, the school moved to the newly-built Albert Road Board School (today Saltaire Primary School). The Victoria Road building became the Salt High School catering for both girls and boys. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original building, along with the Exhibition Building, Dining Hall and the Jonathan Silver building, forms Shipley College, a further education institution.

Outside the building there are two lions and two more on the opposite side of the road. Their names can just be made out, inscribed on their pedestals: Peace, War, Vigilance and Determination. Local legend has it that these were originally constructed for Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. This is, unfortunately, almost certainly a myth.
Associated person or organisation: Salt High School
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Title	Class
E1a-013: Quid Non January 1954	Physical Object
E1a-014: Quid Non January 1955	Physical Object
E1a-015: Quid Non Summer 1960	Physical Object
E1a-016b: The Story of the Salts Girls School for Fifty Years: Reminiscences of Harriet Byles, Headmistress 1886-1920	Physical Object
E1a-018a-b: Miss M.S.Griffiths, First Headmistress of the Salts School	Physical Object
E1a-024: History of the Salts Schools up to 1965 taken from John Waddington -Feather's book (photocopy)	Physical Object
E1a-031a-f: Salts High School and Harriet Byles	Physical Object
E1a-033: Quid Non April 1936	Physical Object
E1a-040: Quid Non May 1947	Physical Object
E1a-041: Quid Non December 1947	Physical Object
E1a-042: Quid Non July 1948	Physical Object
E1a-043: Quid Non December 1948	Physical Object
E1a-044: Quid Non July 1949	Physical Object
E1a-050: Quid Non July 1948	Physical Object
E1a-051: Quid Non December 1948	Physical Object
E1a-052: Quid Non DEcember 1949	Physical Object
E1a-053: Life after Salts School	Physical Object
E1a-054: List of Saltaire Institute & Salts School Records 1852-1968	Physical Object
E1a-064: Quid Non Summer 1960	Physical Object
E1a-068: Salt School Governors	Physical Object
E1a-075: Printing dye for 'Governors of the Salt School'	Physical Object
E1a-077: Plan of the High School building on Victoria Road, Saltaire	Physical Object
E1a-079: Report on the Annual Meeting of the Salts School 1901	Physical Object
E1a-083: Porter's lamp	Physical Object
E1a-084: School tie	Physical Object

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