Saltaire Collection

Items

• C3b-440: News cuttings related to closure of Sir TItus Salt's Hospital

  A scrapbook of cuttings on the closure of Salts Hospital
• C3b-442a: Programme of service for centenary of Sir Titus Salt's hospital

  Programme for: Thanksgiving Service for the centenary of Sir Titus Salts Hospital' (1968)
• C3b-442b: Service marks Salts hospital centenary

  Newspaper cutting 'Service marks Salts hospital centenary'
• H2-139: Sir Titus Salt Hospital Re-opening

  Advertisement re.'Sir Titus Salt Hospital Re-opening' (Shipley Times & Express)
• 2025.68.117: Salts Hospital front door window

  Salts Hospital front door window, now an apartment building
• 2025.68.122: Salts Hospital

  Salts Hospital (2), now an apartment building
• 2025.68.77: Salts Hospital at night

  Salts Hospital at night
• C3b-404: Items on the Sir Titus Salt Hospital

  Items on the Sir Titus Salt Hospital. A booklet from the 'Saltaire Resource Base'
• 2018.9.3.3.2: Loose news cuttings, 1905-1915

  Loose press cuttings kept by Isabel Salt, 1905-1915. Comprises: - 'Burley Women Liberals - Annual Meeting' (29.10.1909) - 'Saltaire Hospital Re-opening', The Yorkshire Post (03.11.1909) - 'The Saltaire Hospital - Re-opening After Extension', The Yorkshire Observer (03.11.1909) - 'Saltaire Hospital - Re-opening Ceremony', Times & Express (05.11.1909) - Saltaire Hospital - Re-opening Ceremonial by Mrs Salt of Denton Hall, Ilkley Free Press (Nov 1909) - Minehead Liberal Association - Conversazione and Meeting (with address by Miss Salt on the licensing Bill) (1909) - Ilkley Women Liberals - Lecture by Mr WM Wade on the Budget - Miss Salt in the chair, Wharfedale & Airedale Observer (1909-10) - Flyer for Poole Women's Liberal Association Public Meeting. Address by Miss Salt (02.12.1909) - 'The Liberal Campaign - meeting. Miss Salt speaker', The Bath Herald (03.01.1910) - 'Liberal Meeting', with speech by Isabel Salt, The Wiltshire Times (08.01.1910) - 'Shipley Women Liberals - Address by Miss Salt', Times & Express (11.11.1910) - Liberal Women and the Vote - Four points of View Presented at Otley. Miss Salt & Adult Suffrage,Wharfedale & Airedale Observer (1910) - Ilkley PSA Bazaar - Excellent Effort in the Wesleyan Assembly Hall - Miss Salt's Encouragement, (Mar/Apr 1911) - 'Yorkshire Women Liberals Conference', The Yorkshire Observer (05.04.1911) -'Wisdom While You Wait' (including quote from Miss Salt), The Morning Leader, London (06.04.1911) - 'Liberal Conference at Yeadon', The Ilkley Free Press & Addingham Courier (07.04.1911) - 'Wharfedale Board of Guardians - Salary Question Discussed', [The Ilkely Free Press & Addingham Courier] ([7].04.1911) - Good Citizenship - Address by Miss Salt - PSA Meeting, Ilkley (30.4.1911) - 3 items - 'Denton - Change of Tenancy of the Hall', The Ilkley Gazette (06.05.1911) - 2 items - Flyer for Outdoor Gathering, Ipswich Women's Liberal Association, address by Isabel Salt (20.07.1911) - Coronation Gift to Queen Mary (Miss Salt organiser for Central Wharfedale) (1911) - Miss Salt at the PSA (address on Thoughts & Actions) (1911-1912) - Menston Women Liberals. Address by Miss Salt on Home Rule, Welsh Disestablishment & Revision of Electoral System (2.2.1912) - 'Otley Women Liberals - Miss Salt's Views of the Coal Crisis & Disestablishment - address by Miss Salt', [Wharfedale Observer] [08.03.1912] - 'The Deeper Side of the White Slave Traffic Problem', letter to the editor from Isabel Salt, [Ilkley Free Press] [29.11.1912] (2 items) - Address by Miss Salt at PSA Sunday Service on 'On Helping one another', Ilkley Free Press (1912) - 'Facing the Future' - Isabel addressed the Huddersfield Women's Liberal Association - undated - Letter head for Yorkshire Council of Women's Libeal Association (1914) - Letter from Yorkshire Council of Women's Liberal Associations re meeting in Leeds (16.06.1915) - Programme for Annual Meeting of Yorkshire Council of Women's Liberal Associations, Leeds (chaired by Miss Salt) (18.10.1915) - 'Women Liberals. Yorkshire Associations conference in Leeds', Yorkshire Evening News & Agenda (18.10.1915) - 2 items - 'Women and War Problems - Prospects of a Sex Conflict', Leeds Mercury (19.10.1915) - 'Women Discuss War-time Economies' (article re Yorkshire Council of Women's Liberal Associations meeting in Leeds), 'Miss Salt elected as President', Daily News & Leader (19.10.1915) - 'Yorkshire Women Liberals - Meeting in Leeds - Solving the Problems of War-time' (annual meeting of the Yorkshire Council of Women's Liberal Associations - Miss Salt president), The Yorkshire Observer (19.10.1915) - 'Yorkshire Women Liberals. Discussion of War Topics at Annual Meeting', The Yorkshire Post (19.10.1915) - Yorkshire Women Liberals - Discussion of war topics at annual meeting - Threat of a sex war in industry - The Yorkshire Post (19.10.1915) - Otley Division Woman's Liberals: The Voluntary Spirit & True Patriotism. Address by Miss Salt on 'What Women can do for the Race', Yorkshoire Observer (24.11.1915) - Readers Views - The War & After -Harrogate & Caro Times (31 Dec 1915) - 7 items
• 2019.1.3: Silver Trowel

  Silver Trowel presented to Mrs Catherine Salt (wife of Titus Salt junior) after the laying a ceremonial stone for the extension of Sir Titus Salts Hospital in 1925.
• C2b-361: Sir Titus Salt's Hospital with three storeys

  Photograph of Sir Titus Salt's Hospital showing added third floor in the 1920s.
• D1-068a: Hospital concert 18 November 1925

  Programme for Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Concert: November 18th 1925
• D1-068b: Programme for Hospital concert 18 November 1925

  Copy of programme for Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Concert: Nov 18th 1925
• D1-068c: Notes for ticket prices for Hospital concert 18 November 1925

  Typed notes for ticket prices for Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Concert: November 18th 1925
• D1-068d: Typed notes for Hospital concert 18 November 1925

  Typed notes of artist for Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Concert: November 18th 1925
• D1-068e-g: Programmes for Hospital concert 12 March 1925

  3 Programmes for Sir Titus Salt's Hospital Concerts: March 12th 1925
• D1-068h: Advert for Hospital concert 12 March 1925

  Copy of advert for: 'Grand Concert in Aid of Sir Titus Salts' Hospital 12th March 1925
• H2-210.3: Page 2 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  May 26 1905 Saltaire Mills. June 2 1905 Saltaire Hospital extension. June 2 1905 Saltaire Hospital Charity Commisioners (1)
• Salt, Caroline, Lady

  Born Caroline Whitlam, she she married Titus Salt in 1830. Caroline was born into a wealthy family, the youngest daughter of George Whitlam, a prosperous sheep farmer from Grimsby. She married Titus Salt in 1830. In the early years of their marriage, they lived near a highly deprived area of Bradford, which is believed to have helped develop their shared concern for impoverished families. She was the mother of Titus Salt's surviving children: William Henry, George, Amelia, Edward, Herbert, Fanny, and Titus Junior. When her husband was awarded a baronetcy in 1869, she became Lady Caroline Salt Following her husband's death in December 1876, she became the Dowager Lady Salt. She stepped into a highly influential role in administering the village’s charitable institutions. Sir Titus bequeathed the Saltaire Almshouses and the Infirmary (hospital) jointly to Lady Caroline and their youngest son, Titus Salt Junior, along with a £30,000 endowment fund to benefit the sick and aged poor. Under her trusteeship, she and Titus Junior expanded the hospital’s reach to treat patients from Shipley, Windhill, and Baildon free of charge, whereas previously it had only served Saltaire residents. In 1887, Lady Caroline and Titus Junior transferred the management and assets of the hospital, almshouses, and the £30,000 endowment fund to the Governors of the Salt Schools, moving the charity from the private family sphere into public trust.
• 2025.92: Remember when a hospital was here

  Telegraph and Argus black and white newspaper article dated July 4th 2002 showing Saltaire Hospital in 1968 when Victoria Road still had its railings