Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2024.139: Crow Nest dining room

  A photograph of a large room in Crow Nest, a favoured home of Sir Titus Salt. A large dining table with chairs is the main part of the picture. A fireplace is on the right, and paintings and a mirror are visible on the walls.
• 2022.74: Saltaire's Allotments: A history

  A history of the various allotments in Saltaire researched by Les Brook with major contributions from Colin Coates and James Roberts. A detailed history of the provision and use of allotments in Saltaire, including many changes to their extent and location.
• A2-064a: Dining Room

  Enlarged photograph of Dining Room at Milner Field
• 2022.51: The history of Pace

  The story of Pace Microtechnology from its foundation in the early 1980s to its acqusition by Arris in the 2010s. Based on original research by Mike Farren, including extensive interviews with the founders David Hood and Barry Rubery and key manager Rob Fleming.
• 2026.2: A history of the New Mill Estate, Saltaire

  A 71 page document with notes, photographs and some excerpts from plans and maps all relating to New Mill. part of the Salts Mill complex. The document covers the history of the site fom the seventeenth century to the early twenty first centiury, including: - Dixon Mill, a corn and fulling mill built in 1635, occupied the site where New Mill was later constructed.? - As part of the building of the original Salts Mill, a gas works on teh same site was proposed in 1852, serving both the mill and the village. - The Mill was expanded in 1868 by builkding New Mill, with a notable campanile chimney. - The estate experienced significant events such as a major fire in 1881 and a breach in the weir in 1884, causing mill shutdowns. - ?By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the estate saw further extensions, infrastructure improvements, and the introduction of electric power. - In the mid-1990s, the estate was repurposed for offices and apartments, with remnants of its industrial past still visible today.
• 2024.150.2: An evening's entertainment

  An advertising poster for a concert held at Victoria Hall as part of the 2015 Conversazione. Includes humorous, historical sketches written by Eddie Lawler, and musci provided by the 'Sultans of Swing'.
• Shipley College

  Shipley College is a college of further and adult education based in several buildings in Saltaire. Opening in 1969, it was a successor to the Technical School based in the Exhibition Building. As well as this building the College also uses the former Salt High School and Dining Hall premises on Victoria Road, parts of Victoria Hall, and the new, purpose-built Jonathan Silver Building on Exhibition Road.
• 2024.10: Sir James Roberts leaves Saltaire (The land disposals of Sir James Roberts)

  Document describing the land holdings of Sir James Roberts in Saltaire and nearby Milner Field following his sale of the Salts textile business in 1918. The research is based mainly on letters exchanged between Sir James Roberts and his representative in Saltaire, John Baker.
• 2025.106: Directors' dining room at Salts Mill

  8 coloured photographs of the Director's dining room at Salts Mill showing the last working day of Joyce Bowtell and her colleagues at the Mill in 1985 (when the textile buisiness closed) 1. Rita Bogg, manageress of Llama shop and Joyce Bowtell, nee Garnett 2 Joyce Bowtell, nee Garnett receiving a bouquet from Donald Fowler 3. Alan Bennett, chief engineer with B. Free 4. Alan Bennett, chief engineer and B. Free. Photograph is 10cm by 10cm 5. Joan and Sister Dawson 6. Sister Dawson and Donald Fowler 7. Sister Dawson, Joan and Donald Fowler. Joan is being presented with a plant 8. Joan receiving a plant and kiss from Donald Fowler
• E2-060b: Saltaire: The Evening Schools are now Open

  Copy of a notice 'Saltaire: The Evening Schools are now Open' (1867). The classes were held in the Dining Hall building of Salts Mill as no school buildings had yet been built in Saltaire. The poster advertises classes in reading, writing and arithmetic at a charge of 1 pence per class. The classes were to be given by Miss Wade and George Morrell (who had a 45 year career as a teacher in Saltaire).
• 2022.23: Saltaire: Hidden Histories

  The History of the Dining Hall and the Saltaire Club and Institute: 1855 to 1955 - Includes colour and black and white photographs.
• C2b-090: Victoria Road and the Royal Cafe

  Mounted photograph of Victoria Road in Saltaire and the Royal Cafe located in the Dining Hall building
• 2019.46.40.1.10: Mill Building entrance

  Colour photo of Victoria Road showing the entrance to the Mill Building of Shipley College. This was theformer Dining Hall of Salts Mill.
• 2019.46.40.1.9: Mill Building entrance

  Colour photo of Victoria Road showing the entrance to the Mill Building of Shipley College. This was theformer Dining Hall of Salts Mill.
• B1-347a-d: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case

  2 large & 2 small copies of plans for a ladies' lavatory in the Royal Cafe located in the Dining Hall building
• 2026.5: 1872 When samurai came to Saltaire

  A PowerPoint presentation of 46 slides used to support a talk given by local historian Les Brook to the Saltaire History Club about the visit to Saltaire in 1872 by the Iwakura Embassy. The Iwakura Embassy was a global mission by high-ranking officials from Japan to industrialised countries to obtain information helpful in the modernisation of Japan. The talk deals with the background of the mission and then describes their visit to Britain, including Bradford and the surrounding distict in late October 1872. They came to Saltaire on 25 October and the talk describes their being met by Titus Salt Junior and company director Charles Stead, and their tour of the village including the High School, primary school, almshouses, and park.
• Salt High School building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The Salt School building on Victoria Road opened in 1868 as the location for the Factory School associated with Salts Mill. Before this, the Factory School was housed in the Dining Hall further down the road. There were both day scholars and half-timers, who would work at the mill for half a day and attend school for the other half. Boys entered on the right and girls on the left and the school was designed to cater for 750 children initially. In 1874, there were 806 half-timers and 454 day scholars, with an average attendance of 665. The schools were constructed with state-of-the-art technology: hot water central heating, gas lighting, and tip-up lavatories. In 1878, the school moved to the newly-built Albert Road Board School (today Saltaire Primary School). The Victoria Road building became the Salt High School catering for both girls and boys. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original building, along with the Exhibition Building, Dining Hall and the Jonathan Silver building, forms Shipley College, a further education institution. Outside the building there are two lions and two more on the opposite side of the road. Their names can just be made out, inscribed on their pedestals: Peace, War, Vigilance and Determination. Local legend has it that these were originally constructed for Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. This is, unfortunately, almost certainly a myth.
• Royal Cafe

  A privately run cafe based in the original Salts Mill Dining Hall on Victoria Road in Saltaire.
• D1-098: Re-opening of the Lecture Hall

  A display board with 3 copy items attached: a modern-day description of the Saltaire Conversazione; a notice announcing the 'Re-opening of the Lecture Hall' in Victoria Hall in 1872 following decorating being compeleted, and it being celebrated with ta 'Full dress concert'; a drawing of a social gathering in Victoria Hall ,possibly the Full dress concert mentioned in the announcement.
• 2024.12: Bradford City Hall 150 years of civic pride by Simon Ross Valentine ISBN 978-1-7390826-1-1

  A history of Bradford Town Hall on its 150th anniversary in 2023. The architects for the Town Hall were Lockward and Mawson, the main architects of Saltaire. The book describes the building of the Town Hall and ist subsequent amendments. Also includes a history of significant events linked to the Town Hall.