2026.7: The founding of Saltaire

Identifier: 2026.7
Title: The founding of Saltaire
Type: research document
Format: typewritten
Date Created: 2025
Creator: Brook, Les
Description: A PowerPoint presentation of 25 slides created by local historian Les Brook for use at various Saltaire History Club events. Provides background on Sir Titus Salt's decision to build Salts Mill and a new model village outside of Bradford. There are deatils of Bradford's industrialisation in the ninettneth century, its poor housing and sanitary conditions, and Salts search for a new location that would allow him to build an industrial village with better conditions.
Subject: Construction; Textile industry
Associated person or organisation: Salt, Titus, Sir; Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited
Associated place or event: Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Source: Brook, Les
Rights: Content available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA licence
Rights Holder: Copyright Les Brook
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