A1-037: The Great Yorshire Llama

Item

Identifier
A1-037
Title
The Great Yorshire Llama
Type
booklet
Format
printed
Date Created
1952
Creator
Icon for personDickens, Charles
Description
Copiy of a reprint of 'The Great Yorkshire Llama' by Charles Dickens. The reprint is from Household Words Voume 6, o 140 published on Saturday November 27th 1952. The article tells a story of how Titus Salt allegedley discovered surplus alpaca wool in 1836 and started experimenting with it to produce cloth. This led to a very successful textile business and, as the article was being written, the construction of a large new mill in what was to become Saltaire.
Subject
Salt family
Textile industry
Salts Mill
Associated person or organisation
Salt, Titus, Sir
Associated place or event
Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Source
Woods, Clive
Persistent address
https://explore.saltairecollection.org/s/p/item/16183
Item sets
Clive Woods Collection

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