Saltaire Collection

Items

• C2b-386.12: World in a Village

  Magazine article taken from Yorkshire Living, January 2011. A look at the entrepreneurial spirit in the model village of Saltaire with images
• C2b-386.13: A History of Solid Growth

  Magazine articles taken from Yorkshire Living, February 2012 p.40-45 A look around the village of Saltaire with images. Includes details of some of the businesses.
• C2b-386.14: An Escape to the Country

  Magazine article taken from Yorkshire Living, May 2013 p.70-71. An interview with Jamie Roberts (great-great grandson of Sir James Roberts) at his home on the Kilnsey estate
• C2b-386.15: Saltaire's Model Villages

  Magazine article taken from Yorkshire Living, February 2013 p.42-45. A look at the entrepreneurial spirit in Saltaire with images
• C2b-386.19: 'Embrace Nature'

  Magazine article taken from Yorkshire Living, October 2022 p.74-76. Interview with Jamie Roberts (great-great grandson of Sir James Roberts) about his business Kilnsey Park Weddings
• C2b-386.21: 24 hours in Saltaire

  Magazine article taken from Yorkshire Life September 2025 p.172-173. This article by Dean Castle, looks at the model village of Saltaire.
• C2b-386.25: Golden run of the mill

  Golden run of the mill. The Yorkshire Post magazine January 18th 2020. 3 page article looking at the transformation of Salts Mill from an industrial relic into a cultural destination and commercial hub by Jonathan Silver and its continuing legacy. It includes a number of coloured images.
• C2b-386.26: Out into the open

  Out into the open. The Yorkshire Post magazine September 2nd 2017. The article by Stephen McClarence looks at the opening of the workers' tunnel in Saltaire, in use until the 1970s, as part of the heritage Open Day celebrations. The article includes a colour photograph of Dave Shaw and Les Brook.
• C2b-386.27: Film's Own County

  Film's Own County. Yorkshire Living Magazine June 2019. Emma Clayton looks at why Yorkshire has become a hotbed for film and TV production. Special mention is given to the filming of 'Funny Cow' in Saltaire
• D1-071.10: Meeting minutes the Saltaire Village Society

  Meeting minutes the Saltaire Village Society
• D1-071.9: Accounts for the Saltaire Village Society

  Accounts for the Saltaire Village Society
• F1a-119: Souvenir brochure for the R.M.S. Orsova

  Souvenir brochure for the R.M.S. Orsova sailing to Australia in 1911. Norman Rae was aboard. Rae did his apprenticeship in the woollen trade and went into partnership with William Pickles as Pickles and Rae, woolcombers in Laisterdyke. Rae was a good business man the firm flourished and opened offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Brisbane. He even bought some land in Australia and called it Greenhill Farm. Due to this Norman Rae and his wife travelled in Australia regularly.
• H1-010.12: Letters to Donald Hanson after his resignation

  Letters to Donald Hanson from friends and colleagues wishing him well after his announcement that he would leave his position as Chairman of the Illingworth Morris Group, and therefore leaving management of Salts Mill.
• H1-010.4: Letters to Donald Hanson from Isidore Ostrer

  Handwritten letters to Donald Hanson from Isidore Ostrer, the chair of Illingworth, Morris textile compnay (and owners of Salts Mill)
• H1-010.5: Letters between Donald Hanson and Lloyds Bank

  Official letters to Donald Hanson from Lloyds Bank managers regarding the finances of his companies including Salts Mill. The period covered is the final few years of the operation of Salts Mill as a textile factory up to its closure in 1985.
• H1-010.6: Letter from Donald Hanson announcing his leave from Chairman of the Illingworth Morris Group

  A letter from Donald Hanson announcing his leave from Chairman of the Illingworth Morris Group to Colin Wilks of Lloyds Bank.
• H1-010.8: Letter to Donald Hanson from deputy chairman of Woolcombers PLC

  Letter to Donald Hanson from G.F. Kitchen the Deputy Chairman of Wollcombers (Holdings) PLC regarding Hanson's retirement in 1985 as a director of the textile firm Illingworth, Morris. Woolcombers PLC had been taken over by Illingworth, Morris PLC.
• H1-010.9: Letters between Donald Hanson and Bank of England

  Two letters between Donald Hanson and Bank of England managers.
• H2-006: Roberts investment records

  Booklet: Sir James Roberts' Investments and financial records
• H2-146: Roberts Newspaper Director

  Photograph of Sir James Roberts as Director of Sheffield Indpendent Press (Sheffield Daily Independent)