Saltaire Collection

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• Llanfairfechan, Clwyd, United Kingdom

  Llanfairfechan is coastal town and seaside resort on the north coast of Wales. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited Llanfairfechan in 1954.
• Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  Cullercoats is a village on the coast of Northumberland in England. Cullercoats has a good beach and is a popular holiday and day-trip destination. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited the village in 1955.
• Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  Bourton-on-the-Water is a village in the Cotswolds area of Gloucesershire in the south west of England. Bourton-on-the-water is a popular tourist destination and was visited by students from teh Salt Grammar School in 1954.
• Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

  Derby is a city in the English midlands. An ancient market town, Derby became a leading site for textile production during the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution.
• Avezzano, Italy

  City in the Abruzzo region of Italy. After the Second World War this was one of the areas where people were recruited to work in Britain, particularly in the textile industry.
• Guise, France

  Guise is a town in the Hauts-de-France region of Northern France. From 1856 it became the site of the Familistery of Guise, a model industrial and residential complex, similar in intent to Saltaire. Titus Salt Junior visited here in 1880.
• Buenos Aires, Argentina

  Capital City of Argentina
• Copenhagen, Denmark

  Capital city of Denmark
• Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  City in northern Lancashire
• New Lanark, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

  New Lanark was founded in 1785 as the site of a new cotton mill and housing for its workers. Under the later progressie ownership of Robert Owen the site became famous. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Stromness, Orkney, United Kingdom

  Stromness is the second largest town in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. The first lifeboat station in the Orkneys was opened here in 1867. Sir Titus Salt gave money for the purchase of a 33 foot (10 metre), 10-oared wooden lifeboat.
• Austwick, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Small rural village in North Yorkshire. Location of the retirement home of Harriet Byles, the second head teacher of the Salts High School for Girls.
• St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  Seaside resort in southern England. Location of a school attended by Shipley textiles businessman, MP and philanthropist SIr Norman Rae.
• Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The first building to be constructed in Saltaire, Salts Mill was designed to manufacture textiles on a truly industrial scale. Titus Salt’s intention was to incorporate all elements of the manufacturing process under one roof, rather than each taking place at a separate location as his previous mills in Bradford required.Employing around 4000 workers, the Mill was the very heart of Saltaire. Part of Salt’s motivation to build Saltaire was his concern over the pollution and living conditions in Bradford. To prevent Saltaire suffering the same issues, each of the chimneys was fitted with an early device to remove pollutants from smoke. The Mill changed hands many times over the years. Following the collapse of the textile industry in West Yorkshire, processes were gradually moved out of the Salts Mill building. In 1985, the last processes were relocated, and the empty mill put up for sale. In 1987, Jonathan Silver purchased the Mill and refurbished it into the building we see today. Rather than a single manufacturing centre, the Mill is both the site of multiple new businesses and a cultural hub with shops, an art gallery and restaurant.
• Harden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village near Bradford in West Yorkshire
• Oberammergau, Germany

  Town in Bavaria, Germany. Visited by Isabel Salt during her European travels.
• Los Angeles, United States of America

  City in California, United States of America
• Moscow, Russia

  Capital city of Russia
• Dresden, Germany

  City in Saxony, Germany
• Leipzig, Germany

  City in Saxony, Germany