Items

• 2016.2.14: Piece of black lace netting

  Semi-circular piece of black lace netting. Both side edge hemmed. Tope edge raw/unfinished. Border to lower edge. Bottom edge border heavily decorated with large and small flowers and leaves. Appears to have been removed from an item of clothing.
• C2a-013b: Saltaire village - Images (People)

  A black & white photograph of Amelia Street, Coronation Party taken by the Telegraph & Argus photographer Arthur Blakey. The photograph is of everyone attending the street party sitting at their tables and chairs. One girl to the right seems to have borrowed her fathers coat but is still wearing a party hat, she is standing by a pram with a child sitting up in it. Behind her are people standing in a doorway.
• C3a-080: Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8

  Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8: Three stories of Polish people who experienced the horrors of World War2 - to later find employment in Salts Mill and new lives in the Bradford District of West Yorkshire' by Maggie Smith.
• H2-208.19: Baker Letters - letter to James Roberts concerning paid rents

  Letter to Sir James, written by John Baker, informing him of payments and rents that have been paid.
• H2-208.31: Baker Letters - letter to James Roberts concerning pensions

  Letter to Sir James Roberts, written by John Baker, informing him two people who receive pensions have died. Mr Baker also asked if it was possible for the widow of James Ruddock to continue to recieve a small pensions.
• 2016.2.49: Strips of heavily beaded cream netting

  2 strips of netting decorated with 7 repeated feather and scallop designs. 2 types of beads are used in the design, 2mm flat beads and 4mm round lustre pearl beads. Between the 7 main designs on each piece there is a small circular embellishment of small flat beads around 1 pearl bead. Most of the central pearl beads are missing. Scalloped edge of both pieces are knotted and frayed. Appears to have been crudely cut from a garment.
• 2019.46.19: Two crests

  Black and white photograph 15.2cmx10.8cm of two crests. One circular with S overlaying M in the centre and surrounded by leaves and flowers. The second showing a shield with a diagonal white cross and rose in the centre, topped by a helment ad a bird. Leaf decoration runs down the sides of this crest. Four holes have been punched along the bottom of the print. The printed image on the paper is 10cmx9.6cm
• 2019.46.39.4.2: Shipley College photo / misc events

  2 identical black and white photos of 13 people (dignitaries and students) standing. 5 have chains of office. Noticeboard behind group and 2 chairs in front
• 2022.81: Sir Titus Salt Bart 1874 coin token

  Sir Titus Salt Bart 1874 metal coin token. Sir Titus on the front, impression of his new statue in Bradford on the reverse. Likely to have been minted to commemorate the opening of the statue.
• H2-208.139: Baker Letters - regarding: paying a plumber. buiklding and repairs; state of Saltaire Park and its sale

  Apologies for paying a plumber. Mr Normington has built his workshop. Mr Thomas & Co were to do not more alterations before winter. Mr Stephenson, a farmer, asked to have his door thresholds repaired. The park is in a wretched state. Greenhouses leased to Mr Badland. The sale of park and greenhouses to be done separately.
• H2-208.144: Baker Letters - regarding: bill for wall repair; park gardener

  Apologies bill for wall repair displeased Sir James but building trade have high wages and it was a danger to the public. Mr Stephenson asked about the steps again. Mr Badland mentioned Mr Moorby being park gardener, but Moorby refused. Mr Badland will give tender for park.
• H2-208.226: Baker Letters - regarding: death of pensioner; rent arrears; Hirst Wood plans

  Pensioner Elizabeth Gregson died 29th Jan. Mrs Park from Hirst Wood cottages missed rent payment. She looks after family and old father - husband killed in war. When Hirst Wood Estate passes to Shipley Council John will have to pass over all plans.
• 2024.35: Small section of lead gas piping for lighting

  A small section of lead piping used for the supply of gas in a house in Saltaire. Pipe was found during redecoration of a first-floor rear bedroom in the 2020s. The lower end of the pipe was embedded in original lime plaster and connected to what may have been a wall mounting for a gas mantle. The lack of disturbance to the plasterwork, where the pipe joined the wall, suggests that the pipe was installed during construction of the house. This section of pipe provides direct evidence to corroborate contemporary newspaper reports that gas lighting was provided in Saltaire housing at the time of construction.
• 2018.3.24: Cheques book

  Cheque book with a plain cover numbered 4684/4713 containing unused cheques for The Bradford Bank Company Limited Bradford. There are also 5 loose blank cheques, which all appear to have been taken from this book. The cheques are headed Milner Field with the Salts crest to the left of the check. The book is in the name of Titus Salt Junior. As Titus Salt Junior died in 1887 and this book has never been used by him, its likely that it was issued to him in the 1880's just before he died.
• 2018.36.6: Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Batenburg planting a tree.

  Black and white tinted large framed photograph of Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Battenburg planting a tree. The tree planting may have been at either Milner Field or in what is now Roberts Park. The tree planting was part of the Royal visit to open the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887 to celebrate the opening of the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.
• H2-121: Map of Midgley Farm, Coach Road, Baildon

  Map of Midgley Farm, Coach Road, Baildon with a total of the acreage of farm and wood. The types of land (arable, pasture and tennis grounds) have been written on the map in red. Midgley Farm was part of the Robert's Estate and is detailed in H2-001 (Baildon and Shipley Rent Book) and aspects of the management of the farms in the Robert estate are described in the baker letters.
• H2-124a: Milner Field estate the Property of Sir James Roberts Esq

  Black and white estate map of Milner Field . Areas of the map have been highlighted in pink (presumably to signify ownership by Roberts?) these areas are: Milner Field, Milner Field Farm, Oakfield House, Primrose Hill, buildings at Dowley gap, Bully Coppy Wood, Fell Wood, Spring Farm, Lane End Farm, Glen View Cottage, Daisy Bank, Strawberry Garden, Bracken Hall, Old Glen House and Trench Farm as well as some additional buildings in Gilstead and Baildon.
• H2-208.160: Baker Letters - regarding: Plans are mentioned; tenders for road

  Plans are mentioned; 4 tenders have been asked for the road repairs but no replies
• H2-208.193: Baker Letters - regarding: cottage rents; walls of Milner Field Estate

  Asks if he should raise rents again. Walls of Milner Field Estate have been knocked down. Mr Robinson wanted advice. Told him Sir Robert had kept walls to roads in good repair.
• H2-208.219: Baker Letters - regarding: rent level for Hirst cottages and allotments

  Higher Hirst Cottage rent is 7s 9d per week. Lower Hirst cottages are 6s 6d. Allotments are £28 8s 8d every 6 months. Allotments rents have not been raised.