Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2018.9.6: possessions

  Assorted objects collected and kept by Isabel Salt. Includes: framed sketches, tin box and acorns, handbag, spectacles, party games, ammunition, champagne cork, mirror, pocket calendar and Cremation Society identity card more details below: There is no item 1. 2) Wooden hinged double picture frame. Contains two pencil sketches of a boy and girl [Isabel and Lawrence Salt]. [Late 19th century]. 3) Box. Tin previously containing acorns and accompanying card 10cm wide x 6cm high x 2.5cm deep. Yellow and blue with black lettering: 'The 'Allenburys' Glycerine and Blackcurrant Pastilles. Made from the fresh ripe fruit. Manufactured by Allen & Hanburys Ltd London'. Late 19th or early 20th century. 4) Box. 20cm radius x 8cm deep. Covered in floral fabric. (Faded to brown but original colours on red ground visible under lid). Label on bottom: 'Pomme d'Or Harrogate'. Late 19th or early-mid 20th century. 5) Luggage tag. 12cm wide x 7.5 cm high. Brown leather with embossed S. Strap with buckle. Late 19th or early-mid 20th century. 6) Two hair curling tongs, with case labelled 'Salt. OXTED. Surrey'. Early-mid 20th century. 7) Spectacles and case. Animal skin case, 14cm wide x 6cm high x 2cm deep. Round spectacles with translucent orange frames. Chamois glasses cleaning cloth. 'Norman J. Fordham. 5 Station Approach, Oxted'. Early-mid 20th century. 8) 'Valentine's Party Games. The Shepherd's Garden.' Cardboard box, slightly damaged, 16cm high x 11cm wide, containing 8 cards. Box and cards with coloured picture of shepherd presenting floral wreath to shepherdess. Inside of card contains riddling poem with missing words. Separate sheet listing answers to riddles. Made by Valentine and Sons, Dundee and London. Also contains two handwritten cards 11cm high x 9cm wide with instructions to games, 'Find Me!' and 'Hide and Seek' with blank paper folded round them. Back of cards contain printed advertisement for 'White Elephant' stall for Oxted and Limpsfield Congregational Church. C1915. 9) Twelve acorns and card giving provenance. Previously in 'Allenburys' tin box. Mauve card, 6cm high x 9cm wide, reads: 'These were picked up by ? in the grounds of the Palace of Doorn (Holland) where the Ex Kaiser was living'. (Doorn crossed through. ?illegible written above). Reverse of card printed: 'In Aid of the Harrogate Infirmary Building Fund. Pageant of English Literature by the Girls of the Harrogate College. Saturday, July 23rd, at 8.15 pm. Admission 5s.'. Autumn 1918. 10) Ammunition. Labelled as shrapnel / shell. Card 11 cm high x 9cm wide. 'Oxted Trophies 1940-4', listing 5 labelled items. Original card: 'Lady Benn, At Home'. C1942. 11) Champagne cork. Cork, metal top. 4cm high x 2cm wide x 2cm deep. Veuve Pommery. 1943. 12-16) Handbag. 28cm wide x 21cm high x 3cm deep. Curved wooden handle with wooden clasp. Tapestry fabric. Lined interior with pocket. With four accompanying items: Pair of spectacles (broken). Possibly tortoiseshell frames. Metal arms. Mirror. 8cm long x 6cm wide. Tarnished. Cremation Society membership identity card, belonging to Isabel Salt, Springwood, Oxted, Surrey [1939]. Pocket calendar, 1948. Booklet 6cm high x 4cm wide. Picture of flowers on cover.
• H2-123a: Map of Milner Field and Stubbing House estates

  Plan drawn up by Dixon & Hart Surveyors Bradford of the Milner Field and Stubbing House Estates. The map shows the estate in coloured lots of red, green and yellow. There is a reference key at the top of the map which lists land owners and a table to the left which lists the contents (buildings, gardens and land) as well as occupiers on the estates. Sir Titus Salt is listed on the map as the owner of the Trench Estate and as having purchased the lot coloured in yellow from B Whitley and R Mossman
• B1-032/5/3: Salts Mill offices and Mill from the railway bridge (1)

  The top of a street lamp is visible in the foreground and some railings can be seen in the lower right of the photograph
• D3-031b: Votes for women: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen

  A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Shipley Times and Express describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and 'Mrs Baines and others' also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd.
• 2022.22: Gordon Terrace, Saltaire and the Saltaire Picture House

  A wooden picture frame containing two photographic picture postcards of scenes from Saltaire. The upper postcard shows Gordon Terrace, a parade of shops along the main road at the top of Saltaire; some shops have awnings extended. The second postcard shows the Saltaire Picture House, now demolished.
• D3-003: Toboggan Run on Shipley Glen

  A reproduction photograph of the Toboggan Slide on Shipley Glen, a green open space near Saltaire. The Toboggan Slide was a large attraction and part of the 'Pleasure Grounds' that offered many different forms of entertainment to the public . THe photograph shows the Toboggan Slide disappearing up hill to the top of Shipley Glen. There is a single trolley on the slide, but no people.
• D3-031a: Sunday with the Suffragettes

  A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Bradford Daily Telegraph describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd. Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and 'Mrs Baines and others' also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd.
• D3-031c: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen: Great Sunday demonstration

  A photocopy of a newspaper article from the Yorkshire Daily Observer describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and 'Mrs Baines and others' also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd.
• D3-031d: Suffragettes at Shipley Glen: Great Sunday demonstration

  A photocopy of a newspaper article from an unnaed newspaper describing a suffragette meeting on Shipley Glen on Sunday 31 May 1908. The article seems to be a copy of the one in the Yorkshire Daily Observer of 1 June - see D3-031c. The leading activist Emmelinbe Pankhurst, (Honorary Secretary of the Women's Soical and Political Union) addressed a large crowd (estimated to be several tens of thousands). Mary Gawthorpe, Nellie Kenny, Adela Pankhurst and 'Mrs Baines and others' also spoke. Large number of police were present to keep order, from what is reported as being a rowdy crowd.
• C2b-119: View of New MIll and Coach Road

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - 1 photo showing the New Mill and Coach Road
• C2b-120: View of Saltaire playing fields and houses

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - showing playing fields and Coach Road houses
• C2b-121: View of Saltaire playing fields and houses

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - showing playing fields and Coach Road houses
• C2b-123: View of United Reformed Church roof and Roberts Park

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - showing church roof and Roberts Park
• 2019.46.30: Shipley College photo 16cm x 21.5cm

  Photograph shows an arch with flowers and leaves carved onto wood. The letters 'DMR' are in the bottom left and '1951' in the bottom right. There are 4 hole punched circles on the left and staple marks at the top.
• 2016.2.23: Piece of cream cotton lace.

  Piece of heavy cotton lace edging. Cream colour. Flower/diamond design. Piece has a scalloped edge at the bottom and straight edge to top. Hemmed on one side.
• 2016.2.24: Piece of gold satin material

  Piece is finished at bottom and top edges. Salvege edges to two sides.
• 2016.2.36: Piece of cotton lace.

  Piece of heavy cotton, cream coloured lace trim. Straight top edge and scalloped lower edge.
• B1-621: Wooden shuttle

  A wooden shuttle with metal tips and an interior metal mechanism.
• 2025.81.4: Visitors on Shipley Glen

  A reproduction photograph showing a view of the top of Shipley Glen with many people visible sitting on the large rocks. A group of three women are prominent in the front centre of the photograph.
• C2b-126: United Reformed Church spire and acanthus

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - 1 photo showing gold-leaf acanthus , 1 photo showing gold spire