Items · Saltaire Collection

C3b-550: Newscuttings concerning Sir Titus Salt's Hospital

Items on the Sir Titus Salt's Hospital (infirmary) with news cuttings and photographs. Includes: snippet detailing hospital staff Surgeon W. H. Ellis and Nurse Sarah Turner; article from SHipley Times and Express about the newly-opened hospital; costs of running the hospital in 1906; and a partial reproduction of the commemorative leaflet from 1922 of the Foundation Day celebration.

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.

Sir Titus Salt's Hospital

Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital was opened in Saltaire in September 1868 and provided crucial medical help many decades before the foundation of the National Health Service.

C3b-553: Article on Salt Auxilliary Hospital during the First World War

Transcript of an article in the Shipley Times & Express on the Staff of the Salt Auxillary Hospital (25 May 1917).

Sir Titus Salt's Hospital building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Titus Salt built an infirmary in Saltaire to care for the village residents. It had enough wards and beds for 27 patients, a dispensary and a surgery for treating workers injured in Salts Mill. The hospital was taken over by the NHS in 1948. It was sold in 1974 and became a private nursing home. It has since been converted to private residences.

2019.27.20: Saltaire Hospital Timeline - hospital governors from 1902 to 1939

A spreadsheet showing the Governors of the Sir Titus Salt Hospital for 1902-1939

Mitchell, Hannah

Hannah Mitchell was appointed Matron of Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital in 1899. She had trained at Kings College Hospital, London and worked at Bradford Royal Infirmary. Her 'job description' covered not just medical matters but all aspects of the hospital’s operation and management including fund raising. Hannah was an extremely competent, ambitious and progressive woman, a strong advocate of women’s rights as evidenced by her numerous letters in the local press. She was a committed Catholic and for many years, president of the local branch of the Catholic Women’s League. During World War One the hospital was designated a War Hospital. Hannah was extremely popular with the convalescent soldiers, raising money and organising activities for their entertainment. As with all women at that time, on her marriage in 1918 Hannah had to leave her job. Having stated she didn’t want any gifts the soldiers clubbed together and bought her a case of silver spoons. She died in 1936. In her will she left £10 (approximately £900 today) to the hospital

C2b-190: Sir Titus Salt's Hospital with two storeys (late nineteenth century)

Black and white photograph of Titus Salt's Hospital. Has the original two storeys. A group of schoolchildren stand outside.

C2b-191: Sir Titus Salt's Hospital

Photograph of Sir Titus Salt's Hospital with 3 storeys.

2024.31.1: The Sir Titus Salt Hospital

The Sir Titus Salt Hospital, opened in 1868, before the building of the third storey. 1 of a set of 12 photographs from the collections of the Saltaire Village Society and the Saltaire Traders' Association