Saltaire Collection

Items

• C3b-607: 'Saltaire Institute & Victoria Hall - part 29 - 1955-1956

  Timeline for 'Saltaire Institute & Victoria Hall - part 29 - 1955-1956 (2 copies)
• C3b-608: Timeline for 'Saltaire Institute & Victoria Hall - part 30 - 1957-1958

  Timeline for 'Saltaire Institute & Victoria Hall - part 30 - 1957-1958 (2 copies)
• D1-080a-b: A Choral Competition at Victoria Hall

  2 parts of a poster for 'A Choral Competition at Victoria Hall - 20th October 1894'
• D1-081a-b: The Final Concert Choral Competition at Victoria Hall - 1894

  2 laminated copies of a poster for 'The Final Concert Choral Competition at Victoria Hall - 1894'
• D1-082a-c: A Grand Concert at Victoria Hall 18th Nov. 1925

  3 photocopies of pages from a programme for 'A Grand Concert at Victoria Hall 18th Nov. 1925'
• D1-087: Quote about Victoria Hall

  Card with quote from Titus Salt Jnr. on Victoria Hall
• D1-089: Maintenance & Repairs to Victoria Hall

  Photocopy of 'Maintenance & Repairs to Victoria Hall, Saltaire (City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council 1990-91)
• 2024.150.6: Report on the 18th April 2015 Conversazione at VIctoria Hall

  A one page typewritten report on the 2015 Conversazione. Includes details of the successful events, and thoughts for different actions if the event was to reoccur.
• C2b-103: Victoria Hall

  Postcard of Victoria Hall
• C2b-193: Postcard of Victoria Hall

  Postcard of Victoria Hall (The Institute)
• D1-170: Invitation to re-opening Ceremony of Victoria Hall

  Invitation to Eddie Lawler to the re-opening Ceremony of Victoria Hall on Thursday 21st December 2006
• 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.
• C3b-540: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  photocopies of sets of floor plans for: 'The old dining room - Salts Annex'
• A2-059: Letter to Catherine Salt about architectural feature in Milner Field

  Letter to Mrs Salt from Thomas Harris, the architect of Milner Field, relating to Medallion Heads on Dining Room Chimney-piece (1876)
• B1-582: Salts Mill. A collection of photographs purchased from Burrows, Dorothy by the Salts Trust (mounted on board).

  Salts Mill yard - looking towards the Dining Room tunnel
• C2b-036: Saltaire Images of Places

  Postcard of Salt's Dining Rooms
• B1-354-15: Salts Mill: Morley and Woodhouse Files. Messrs Salt (Saltaire) Ltd. Extension to the Staff Canteens (1950 - 1952)

  Letters & quotes from Thomas Obank & Semtex for work on the Manager's Dining Room
• B1-354-18: Salts Mill: Morley and Woodhouse Files. Messrs Salt (Saltaire) Ltd. Extension to the Staff Canteens (1950 - 1952)

  Ministry of Works approval and quotes from May Acoustics Ltd. Re. installation of acoustic panels for Staff Dining room, with drawings
• B1-354-7: Salts Mill: Morley and Woodhouse Files. Messrs Salt (Saltaire) Ltd. Extension to the Staff Canteens (1950 - 1952)

  Quotation from Semtex Ltd. London to Salts re. grouting and tiling of Director's Dining Room
• B1-354-8: Salts Mill: Morley and Woodhouse Files. Messrs Salt (Saltaire) Ltd. Extension to the Staff Canteens (1950 - 1952)

  Quotation from Semtex Ltd. London to Salts re. grouting and tiling of Director's Dining Room