Items

• 2018.39.5: Minton China Service

  5 of 6 China plates from a Minton China Service which was made for the Opening of Salts Mill in 1853.
• 2018.39.6: Minton China Service

  6 of 6 China plates from a Minton China Service which was made for the Opening of Salts Mill in 1853.
• C3a-023: Thomas Hodson's Service record

  Copy of Thomas Hodson's Service record and promotions in the First World War
• C3b-442b: Service marks Salts hospital centenary

  Newspaper cutting 'Service marks Salts hospital centenary'
• F1a-126: Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Norman Rae

  Order of Service for the funeral of Sir Norman Rae who died 31st December 1928
• 2018.16: Mr G Armstrong, Long Service Certificate

  'Coronation Year The Yorkshire Observer Roll of Honour' Long Service Certificate awarded to Mr G Armstrong, for employment at Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, from 1907 to Coronation Day, 1953.
• 2018.37.3: Dinner plate

  Dinner plate, one of a full Davenport, decorated dinner service purchased by Catherine and Sir Titus Salt Junior. They were probably from used for dinner parties, but were definitely used for the Royal Visits in 1882 for the visit of Prince and Princess of Wales.
• Hodson, Thomas

  Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson was born in Shipley and was a warehouseman at The Conditioning House in Bradford prior to enlistment in the army during the First World War. Hodson’s Division landed in Le Harve, France in August 1915. They served in front line trenches and several battles, including the Battle of the Somme where Hodson was killed in action on the 29th July 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme and on the Rolls of Honour at Nabs Wood cemetery in Shipley, St Paul’s, and St Peter’s Church in Shipley. Lance Corporal Hodson was born in 1892, son of Tom and Rosa Hodson. His service number was 13083. His medals and memorabilia from World War 1 are The ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ medals (the popular names for The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively) and a ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ which was issued to next of kin of all British and Empire service personnel killed as a result of the war. In addition, a Princess Mary Gift Fund 1914 box was a present for all those serving during Christmas 1914, the box contents included cigarettes and/or chocolate, a photo of Princess Mary and a signed card. These and other items relating to Lance Corporal Hodson are in the Saltaire Collection. In 2017, the Saltaire Collection received a donation of World War One medals belonging to Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson that were found in the cellar of a house in Saltaire. Through local news items and the help of a local historian we were able to trace his relatives who were than reunited with these medals. The family generously decided to leave these in the collection.
• Saltaire Club and Institute

  The Saltaire Club and Institute opened in 1870 and was based in a large new building on Victoria Road, above Salts Mill. The building is now referred to as Victoria Hall. Although not part of the temperance movement, Titus Salt was staunchly opposed to the construction of a public house in his village, having seen many workers in Bradford drink their wages away as soon as they were paid and fail to provide for their families. Residents were free to drink at home or at pubs outside the village but Salt hoped they would be attracted by the more immediate Social Club and Institute. The founding rules of the Club and Institute stated that its objects were 'to afford to the inhabitants of Saltaire, and its neighbourhood, the means of social intercourse, mutual help, mental and moral improvement and rational recreation, also to afford facilities for holding meetings of Friendly and other Societies'. There was a small quarterly charge for membership, whch was open to men, women and young people over the age of 13. The building housed rooms for billiards, bagatelle, chess and drafts, reading, classrooms, an extensive library, a laboratory and a large hall for lectures and concerts. In the 1880s it housed the Schools of Art and Science before they moved to the purpose-built Exhibition Building.
• Fowler Calculators

  Fowler Calculators was a Manchester company that was founded as the Scientific Publishing Company in 1898 by William Henry Fowler. Besides their range of calculators, they were well known for their range of engineering pocket books that they published annually. Their address was 53 New Bailey Street (1900-9 at least) and their works were later in Hampson Street, Sale. They went into liquidation in 1988. (http://www.mathsinstruments.me.uk/page17.html)
• C4-005: Saltaire village, Documents (Places) Recent Developments (World Heritage; Festival etc)

  A customer profile of visitors to Saltaire' by Maria Glott
• C4-034a: Saltaire village, Documents (Places) Recent Developments (World Heritage; Festival etc)

  Copy of a booklet: 'A Customer Profile of Visitors to Saltaire 1994-1995' (Maria Glot)
• H2-210.13: Pages 21-22 from a book of James Robert's newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  Aug 28 1906 Counterfeit coins. Aug 28-30 1906 Thomas Hadfield's death. Aug 31 1906 Shipley UDC (1). re. building the new Baths and Fire Station
• A3-018: Salt Family: Royal Visits

  Photograph of coins commemorating the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, Saltaire
• 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]
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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