Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2020.21: Sir William Fairbairn

  A portrait drawing of Sir William Fairbairn, the leading Victorian engineer, published in the Supplement to the Illustrated London News 29 August 1974 following his death.Farirbairn helped to design Salts Mill
• Fairbairn, William

  William was a leading British engineer and was contracted by Titus Salt to design the interior of Salts Mill. William's significant engineering skills enabled the mill to operate smoothly and perform all the functions that took raw materials through the series of processes required to make high quality cloth. William was responsible for the Mill's iron structure, the lay-out of the machinery, the design and manufacture of the boilers, steam engines and line-shafting. He also designed a tubular-girder bridge over the river Aire that runs through the village. Fairbairn published his plans for the mill in a book that ran to four editions and was translated into French and Spanish. He was justly proud of Salts Mill, his largest work of mill construction.
• 2024.36: Descriptive Index Catalogue of the Library of the Saltaire Club and Institute

  A full catalogue of the contents of the Library of the Saltaire Club and Institute. Has brief details in the front of the volume of the operation of the LIbrary. Most of the 1665 pages consist of an alphabetical listing of the items held in the Library.
• C3b-272a-b: The Land Acquisitions of Titus Salt in Shipley & Baildon

  2 copies of booklet: 'The Land Acquisitions of Titus Salt in Shipley & Baildon' by Ian Watson
• F1a-007a-b: Death of William Fairbairn

  2 photocopies of newspaper article on the death of William Fairbairn, the leading nineteenth century who helped design Salts Mill.
• B1-425: On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes

  Copy of 'On the Application of Cast & Wrought Iron to Building Purposes' by William Fairbairn (US edition). Fairbairn was a leading Victorian engineer who helped to design Salts Mill.
• B1-459: On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes

  The Saltaire section of: 'On the Application of Cast Iron to Building Purposes' by the leadign Victorian mill engineer William Fairbairn. Fairbairn helped to design Salts MIll.
• B1-220a-m: On the Construction of Fire-proof Warehouses

  Extract from 'On the Construction of Fire-proof Warehouses' by William Fairbairn. Fairbairn was the chief engineer employed by Titus Salt when designing Salts Mill.
• 2018.68: On the Application of Cast and Wrought Iron to Building Purposes.

  An excerpt from the famous book by William Fairbairn discussing the construction of Saltaire mills.
• B1-375a: Salts Mill. A Collection of photocopies of items relating to Saltaire from the 'Engineers' magazine 1859-1904

  Fairbairn'??s girders at Saltaire