Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2026.10: Who built Saltaire?

  A PowerPoint presentation of 31 slides created by local historian Les Brook to support a talk given to Saltaire History Club in 1919. Discusses the various contractors involved in the building of Salts Mill and Saltaire village. Includes plans of Saltaire showing which parts were built by which contractors. See also 2026.6, a linked talk dealing with the source of the stone used to build Saltaire.
• 2026.7: The founding of Saltaire

  A PowerPoint presentation of 25 slides created by local historian Les Brook for use at various Saltaire History Club events. Provides background on Sir Titus Salt's decision to build Salts Mill and a new model village outside of Bradford. There are deatils of Bradford's industrialisation in the ninettneth century, its poor housing and sanitary conditions, and Salts search for a new location that would allow him to build an industrial village with better conditions.
• C2b-323: Sir Titus Salt's Hospital & almshouses

  Photograph of the Sir Titus Salt's Hospital and adjacent almshouses on Victoria Road, Saltaire.
• C1-014a-b: Saltaire village - Maps & Plans

  2 copies of plan for a W.C. in Saltaire Hospital (1911)
• C3a-164: Letter regarding pension

  Letter from William Fry to Mrs M. Giles regarding the continuation of her late husband's pension from the Sir Titus Salt's Hospital. The amount was seven shillings to be collected weekly
• C3b-352: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Laminated copy of Programme cover for a 'Hospital Concert 18th Nov. 1925 at Victoria Hall
• C3b-353: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Collection of cuttings on Salts Hospital & Opening of new wing Feb. 1928
• C3b-551: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Telegraph & Argus newspaper cutting on:'Salt's Hospital is 100 years old' (10th September 1968)
• C3b-554: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Copy of a report on the proposed closure of Sir Titus Salt Hospital - March 1977
• C3b-555: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Copies of pages from the sales brochure for the sale of Sir Titus Salt's Hospital - 1989
• H2-210.4: Pages 3-4 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  June 2 1905 Saltaire Hospital Charity Commissioners (2). June 16-17 1905 adverts. July 22-28 1905 adverts. July 28 1905 Anthrax. July 31 1905 Saltaire Embezzlement. Aug 4 1905 George Morrell retirement. Aug 4 1905 Mill man's embezzlement
• 2022.33: A Dose of Salts by Vera Hornshaw

  The autobiography of a nurse at Salts Hospital
• Fry, William

  William Fry started working life on the railways but his life was transformed in his thirties when he moved to Saltaire to become the long-serving Secretary and General Manager of the Salt Schools. The 'Salt Schools eventually incorporated the High School (for Girls and Boys), the Saltaire Club and Institute, and the Technical and Art School In the late 1880s a new School of Art and Science was instigated by Titus Salt Junior. To help fund the new school and partly celebrate its opening, and Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, Salt devised the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition. William Fry became heavily involved in its planning, travelling round the country to visit other exhibitions at Edinburgh, Folkestone and Liverpool as well as the Colonial Exhibition in London. He wrote numerous letters to obtain exhibits and enlist support for the Exhibition. This was a difficult task because of competition with other exhibitions and attractions. William wrote that ‘obscurity, too small an affair’ were ‘prominent ideas to be combated’. William also became Secretary of the Sir Titus Salt's Hospital, likely after the management ot the hospital was passed to the Salts School Board in 1887.
• C2b-192: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  photocopies on items re. history of Sir Titus Salt Hospital
• C3b-361: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Poster for a 'Concert in aid of Salt's Hospital
• F1a-167: Norman Rae & Northcliffe Shipley, Miscellaneous Documents

  Photograph of Norman Woodhead (grandson of Sir Norman Rae) at the opening of the extension of Shipley Hospital 4th September 1996. Shipley Hospital had previously been the Sir Norman Rae Nursing Home, paid for by a donation from Sir Norman Rae.
• B1-356-25: Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd (Sir Titus Salt's Hospital)

  Salts to Morley re. compensation received from War Department relating to the Hostel in Park Street.
• C1-012a-b: Saltaire village - Maps & Plans

  2 copies of floor layout of Saltaire Hospital (1989 Sales plan from Dacre Sone & Hartley)
• C1-013: Saltaire village - Maps & Plans

  Copy of second floor layout of Saltaire Hospital (1989 Sales plan)
• C3b-014: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  Copy of the sales catalogue for 'Sir Titus Salt's Hospital'