Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2025.68.36: Village and Mill from St Peters Tower Top

  Village and Mill from St Peters Tower Top
• C2b-102/11/11: Top of chimney

  Top of chimney. One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• C2b-102/6/1: Newspaper print 'Top Table'

  Newspaper print 'Top Table'. One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• C2b-102/6/7: Salts School top of Bell tower with scuptures of children

  Salts School top of Bell tower with scuptures of children. One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• C2b-102/8/20: Print of opening of mill 'Top Table'

  Print of opening of mill 'Top Table'. One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• 2025.68.37: United Reformed Church from St Peter's Tower Top

  United Reformed Church from St Peter's Tower Top
• 2025.29: Victorian shopping: Harrod's catalogue 1895

  A facsimile reproduction of Harrod's catgalogue from 1895. Harrod's is an up-market department store in London. The catalogue contains Descriptions, illustrations and costs of all the items available in the store. Includes, household goods, clothing, funerary goods, haberdashery, pharmaceuticals, and office goods.
• 2018.36.1: A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field

  A poem titled 'A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field. The poem was privately printed to celebrate the opening of the Technical Schools in Bradford. The poem is set out in the centre of the page in gold lettering and is surrounded by a border of the Prince of Wales feathers.
• A3-006.3: Menu cards for royal visit

  Handwritten menu cards for royal visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales on 23rd June 1882. The Gold surround is hand decorated cornflowers.
• 2018.36.2: Letter to Mrs Titus Salt about royal visit

  Letter to Mrs Titus Salt from Abraham Holroyd about the poem to A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field. The letter states that the poem was set by his son who was an apprentice in a printing company.
• 2020.6.1: Grange Court-Baildon Lodge History

  A typed article 'Grange Court-Baildon Lodge' relating to the owners and occupiers, including Titus Salt Junior compiled by Roger Clarke, October 2019
• 2018.3.16.3: Exhibit of Angora Goats, for the top of the Triumphal Arch

  Photograph of the Angora Goat used on the top of the Archway, welcoming visitors to Saltaire on Victoria Road. The Arch was for the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887, which was opened by Princess Beatrice. Possibly purchased by Denys Salt from C.H. Wood. [The C.H. Wood Collection is now owned by Bradford Industrial Museum Collection]
• A3-170a: Carriages for Princess Beatrice visit

  Photograph of the carriages for Princess Beatrice's visit to Milner Field. A group of foot guards can be seen on the left.
• 2024.115.2: Connecting the threads: From Altiplano to Airedale: 2. Life on the Altiplano

  One of a set of research documents on the production of alpaca wool in Peru and its subsequent journey to the United Kingdom for use in the textile industry. Part two details the farming of alpacas for their wool in the Altiplano region of Peru. The focus is on the relations of production and the roles taken on by various groups in the process.
• F1a-102a: 'Pickles and Rae Woolcombers and Top Makers' letterhead

  Letterhead for the business of 'Pickles and Rae Woolcombers and Top Makers' . Norman Rae was a Director of the firm
• 2018.9.6.8: 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.
• B1-032/3/46: Top room in spinning mill (1)

  Colour photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows an empty room with a glazed roof. Some large baskets with 'Salts Saltaire' are in the foreground. A man wearing a blue top and pushing a trolley is at the rear of the picture.
• 2025.81.11: Tower top view of the Pleasure Grounds at Shipley Glen

  Tower top view of the Pleasure Grounds at Shipley Glen
• 2024.27: Pace set to top £1 billion turnover landmark

  Article from Yorkshire Post Business Tuesday July 28 2009 called 'Pace set to top £1 billion turnover landmark' ranked third in the global market
• B1-032/3/48: Top room in spinning mill (2)

  Colour portrait photograph taken after the mill had closed down. It shows a close up of an empty room with a glazed roof. Three wicker baskets, the first with 'Salts Saltaire' on the front, are in the middle of the floor. A man with a blue top is pushing a trolley at the rear of the photograph.