Saltaire Collection

Items

• H2-208.58: Baker Letters - regarding: ownership of Park Street and visit by Catherine Salt

  Ownership of South East end of Park Street; Eliza Walker, Ellen Sutcliffe, Fred Hartley & Martha Rawnsley; John Baker will leave at end April to go to Morecambe; Visit by Mrs Titus Salt
• C2a-090: Salts School visit to Shipley Gas Works

  Photograph of: Salts School visit to Shipley Gas Works (c.1952)
• A3-026: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Pages from 'The Graphic' of the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Saltaire 1882
• H2-208.66: Baker Letters - regarding: Insurance; purchase of estate, visit by Sir James

  Insurance; Mr Searle wants to buy estate; Visit by Sir James; Mr Normington wants Midland railway to put in a siding
• 2018.9.1.2.1: Blank invitation cards for Royal visit in 1887

  Assorted papers relating to Isabel Salt and her mother Catherine Salt, [1887]-1968. 2 Blank invitation cards From 'Mr & Mrs Titus Salt', Milner Field, 'To meet Their Royal Highnesses The Prince & Princess Henry of Battenberg.' [1887].
• A3-003: 21 dinner place name cards

  Envelope containing 21 dinner place names cards for Official Dinner of the Royal Visit to Milner Field in 1882.
• A3-158: Programme card for recital

  Programme card for recital at Milner Field 23rd June 1882 for visit of Prince of Wales. Ruskin letter on reverse
• C3b-070: Visit to Saltaire by the Burmese Ambassador

  Extract from the 'Journal of the Burma Research Society' with a reference to a visit to Saltaire by the Burmese Ambassador circa 1873
• E2b-082c: visit to Saltaire by Sir Patrick Salt

  Newspaper cutting of the visit to Saltaire by Sir Patrick Salt (April 1995)
• A3-057: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Letter from W.E.Forster to Mr Knollys re. Royal visit to Yorkshire
• A3-075: Salt Family:

  Letter to Lady Alice Bective from Mrs Salt re. royal visit & etiquette
• H2-208.201: Baker Letters - inquiry about next visit

  Letter from Mr Jowett asking when Mr Baker will next visit
• A3-021a-d: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Poem (printed), 'A Welcome', for Prince & Princess of Wales on visit to open Technical School, Bradford + 3 enlarged copies of the hand-written version
• A3-059: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Letter to Mr Salt from ??? at Privy Council Office re. Royal visit
• C3a-077c: Jack Hogg: a personal history

  A personal history by Jack Hogg, born in Saltaire in 1922. His account includes details of growing up in Saltaire, including attending Albert Road School.
• 2018.3.16.2: Inside a building of the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee exhibition 1887

  Portrait photograph of inside one of the exhibition buildings, the room is open to the ceiling with windows reminiscent of the top floor of Salts Mill. The exhibit includes a clock and ceramics. This was part of the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887, which was opened by Princess Beatrice.
• 2018.56: Saltaire

  Souvenir booklet for the visit of King George V and Queen Mary on 29 May 1918 to Salts Mill. The Mill had recently been purchased from James Roberts by a group of local businessmen whose photographs are featured in the booklet. It also contains photographs of Salts Mill, and a brief textual history of the mill and Saltaire. There is a plan of the mill site with different areas identified. The booklet contains a brief desciption, photographs of processes in the mill, and a plan of the mill showing the location of various processes. In the centre pages there is an artists impression of the King and QUeen in the Burling and Mending room.
• 2018.36.7: Prince & Princess of Wales planting a tree in Saltaire Park

  Original photograph of the Prince (the future Edward VII) and Princess of Wales planting a tree in Saltaire Park (now Roberts Park) The royal couple have arrived in a carriage (visible in the background) and have walked along a hall rug to a tree to be planted. Prince Edward holds an umberella, and a cigarette, while Princess Alexandra holds the spade. Members of ths Salt family including Titus Salt Junior, his wife Catherine and their children Harold, Lawrence and Isabel stand to the right of the couple. (A3-052 is a different version of this photograph with their fourth child Gordon visible). With 2 copies of the original - 1 full copy and 1 close up of Isabel Salt
• 2020.2.8: The Shipley Times & Express Pictorial

  The 'Shipley Times & Express Pictorial' 1937 booklet was produced as a pictorial record of events in Shipley for 1937. It includes a review of the year. The magazine mainly consists of photographs, with text, on the main events of 1937. This includes the visit to Shipley and Saltaire by King Goerge VI and Queen Elizabeth, along with the street parties and school events to celebrate the Coronation. The magazine also includes photographs of various Shipley personalities, wedding groups and the opening of Hall Royd Methodist Church. The magazine also includes a photograph of Joan Kendall of Katherine Street, Saltaire, for completing 7 years of unbroken school attendance.
• F1a-017: Shipley Times & Express Pictorial 1937

  The booklet was produced as a pictorial record of events in Shipley for 1937. It includes a review of the year. The magazine mainly consists of photographs, with text, on the main events of 1937. This includes the visit to Shipley and Saltaire by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, along with the street parties and school events to celebrate the Coronation. The magazine also includes photographs of various Shipley personalities, wedding groups and the opening of Hall Royd Methodist Church. The magazine also includes a photograph of Joan Kendall of Katherine Street, Saltaire, for completing 7 years of unbroken school attendance.