Items

• B1-410: 'Look What They Did To My Village'

  6 mounted cards on the life of Jonathan Silver 3rd February 1999
• C4a-013.4: The Saltaire Journal Vol.1 No.4 March 2010 The Whitlam Family?....Who are they?

  Includes snippet about Saltaire Park and Sir James Roberts. Includes a book review of The Buildings of England : Yorkshire West Riding : Leeds, Bradford and the North by Leach and Pevsner and a CD review of Shipley St Pauls Church which mentions burials of Saltaire residents
• Iwakura Embassy

  The Iwakura Embassy (or Iwakura Mission) was a diplomatic mission to North America and Europe from 1871 to 1873. Leading Japanese scholars and statesmen visited major industrialised nation to raise the profile of Japan following its period of isolation that had ended in the 1850s. They were also involved in trying to renegotiate trade agreements, and also tasked with gathering information on modern industrial, educational, military and political processes and structures. In Autumn 1872 the Iwakura Embassy visited Saltaire as an example of a model industrial village and modern, integrated textile mill. They were interested in the amenities of the village as well as the mill itself.
• Dayton Coal and Iron Company Limited

  Company founded in Dayton, Tennessee, United States owned by the Salts company. The company manufactured iron and stell, based on the large local deposits of iron ore and coal. The Salts made major investements in the company which were partly to blame for the subsequent financial difficulties of the textile business in the UK. The Salts gave up their interest in the Dayton company in 1892 and sold the textile business the following year. Dayton was the site of rich coal and iron deposits. Its original developers obtained a loan from Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Ltd, but they went bankrupt. The directors of the Salts company, including Titus Salt Junior, took over the Dayton firm and made large investments to develope the site. They built: two large blast furnaces with a capacity of 250 tons of iron ore per day, three fire brick kilns and 200 coke ovens were constructed as well as 200 homes, a manager's house (costing $15,000), a company store, a schoolhouse and other social amenities. What had been a small hamlet grew into a sizeable town over a very short period. In 1892 the Salt business partners had to surrender their interests in Dayton due to the collapse of Sir Titus Salt (Bart) Sons and Co. Ltd. The investment the company had made in Dayton was a significant factor in the Salt family’s loss of their business and the estate of Saltaire.
• Milner Field, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Milner Field was a neo-gothic mansion built for Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt. They purchased Milner Field Estate on the ourskirts of Bingley in 1869. An existing manor house and farm were demolished and replaced with a new house, completed in 1871, and a new model farm. At Milner Field, the Salts hosted the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1882 when they were visting Bradord. In 1887 Princess Beatrice and her husband also stayed at the house while visting to open the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.
• B1-514a-d: Salts (Saltaire) Ltd glass ashtrays

  Four idenitical 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd ' glass ashtrays with the Alpaca logo. They were probably used by representative of Salts as marketing tools.
• 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.
• 2022.19: Yorkshire: Pictorial memories

  A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of Francis Frith and Company. Frith establshed a business in th 1860s to photograph every town and village in Britain and provide them for the public to buy. The book includes views of many places across Yorkshire. It includes two photographs of Saltaire on page 28: the railway station with a train arriving and Salts Mill visible in the background; Saltaire (later Roberts) Park along the promenade with the bandstand visible and two women with a pram in the foreground.
• H2-208.148: Baker Letters - regarding: new roof on workshop; sale of land

  Normington is putting a new roof on his workshop; Land Knowles wishes to buy between railway and Normingtonâ??s building
• H2-208.213: Baker Letters - regarding: level of rents; possible sale of Stephenson's farm

  Wants the rents to remain low when council raising them, as everyone praising Sir James. Stephenson still not happy with rent increase. Been told someone would like to buy his farm.
• H2-208.208: Baker Letters - regarding: sale of Milner Field; power station required; possible sale of Higher Hirst Mill; allotment rents

  Milner Field sold to Cinema Picture Com. Wanted light & so more power. Wanted power station and Mr Baker pointed out Higher Hirst Mill. So may buy the land there incl. 9 cottages. Does he raise the allotment rents?
• H2-208.51: Baker Letters - regarding: potential sale of land

  Mr Drake would like to buy trees by river & in Hirst wood to be used for logs; Mr Hill & Mr Gates considering buying land in Shipley & Baildon
• 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
• 2018.26: China sugar bowl or conserve dish

  China sugar bowl or conserve dish with lid marked 'A present from Saltaire' in gold.
• 2018.5: Saltaire 1887 Exhibition tin box

  Souvenir tin of the Saltaire Exhibition in 1887. There is no information in regards to what the contents of the tin was. Both the top and bottom are decorated, the paper label on top has become faded.
• 2018.9.6.11: Champagne cork

  Champagne cork, metal top labeled Veuve Pommery, 1943.
• 2019.46.12: Views of Shipley College Exhibition Road building with scaffolding

  2 coloured photographs (13cmx9cm). The top photograph shows a view over the roof and top windows of Shipley College with the Shipley College sign on the side of the building near a roof. The bottom photograph shows Shipley College with scaffolding on chimneys and a white caravan parked in the car park.
• B1-622: Wooden shuttle

  A wooden shuttle with metal tips and an interior metal mechanism. The shuttle has a wide opening on top and a narrow opening on the bottom.
• C2b-125: United Reformed Church gold spire

  Photocopy of two photos taken from scaffolding at the top of Saltaire United Reformed Church during roof repairs - 1 photo showing gold spire on top of dome
• 2019.1.3: Silver Trowel

  Silver Trowel presented to Mrs Catherine Salt (wife of Titus Salt junior) after the laying a ceremonial stone for the extension of Sir Titus Salts Hospital in 1925.