Saltaire Collection

Items

• H2-208.156: Baker Letters - regarding: cost of repairs; Midland Railway bridge repairs; repairs to Hirst Lane; repairs to gravestone

  Cost of steps around £5; Midland Railway bridge repairs could be low if done temporally; Hirst Lane very bad condition and needs mending; Mr Willieâ??s headstone needs attention
• H2-208.223: Baker Letters - regarding: pension termination; possible land purchase by Midland Railway; allotments passed to council

  Salome Pickard, a pensioner had attained 70th year on 25th Dec when pension stops. Wondered if land bought by Midland railway to pass into council hands. Plans from Hirst bridge to John Street therefore to be handed to council. Allotments been passed to council as well.
• H2-208.74: Baker Letters - regarding: Offer of land between school and railway

  Offer of land between school and railway
• H2-208.85: Baker Letters - regarding: plans of land between Caroline Street and railway; possible sale of land near Albert Road

  Plans to be sent to Mr Walker of Messrs Armitage & Norton of plot sold & land between Caroline Street & railway & Victoria Road. Doesnâ??t want to sell land near Albert Road as council are interested but their price is too cheap
• 2024.117: Saltaire station

  Saltaire station. Postcard of the railway station at Saltaire in black and white. On the reverse it says published by the Saltaire Village Society and Saltaire Tourist Information Centre 1996
• H2-208.93: Baker Letters - regarding: purchase of fields; boundary dispute settled; Milner Field and Hirst House

  Mr Anderton, architect wants to purchase fields on railway side of Hirst Bridge; Boundary with Midland Railway settled; Mr Lister & furniture at Milner Field; Mr Sircum leaving Hirst House
• B1-207a-b: Workers on railway station platform

  4 enlarged photographs of Salt's employees on Blackpool station platform standing as a group next to a steam train. Maximilian and Anna Wagner are identified on the image. This marked the occasion of the 100th aniversary of Salts Mill. The train is decorated to celebrate this. Maximillian worked in the Mill, as a weaver and later a Weaving overlooker after moving from Poland in 1948 until he retired.
• B1-032/5/12: Salts Mill Dining Room, Victoria Road (1)

  3 laminated copies of the photo of A close up of the entrance to Salts Mill dining room. Two young men are visible in the doorway. A railway motice board is visible to the left with a notice saying 'Earlier holidays'
• B1-343: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case

  Copy of outline plan of original building of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the canal (DEGW)
• B1-362: Salts Mill

  Photocopy of coloured postcard of Salt's Mill and the railway sidings
• B1-364: Salts Mill

  Photocopy of Black and White postcard of a print of an aerial perspective of Salt's Mill- showing the railway in the mill yard
• C2b-102/2/10: Saltaire Station (15)

  Saltaire Station (15). One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• C2b-102/2/11: Saltaire Station (76)

  Saltaire Station (76). One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.
• C2b-290a: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  Photograph of old Saltaire station taken from the railway bridge. c. early 20th century
• C3b-401a: Saltaire village, Documents (Places)

  'To Blend with the village' - Items on the new Saltaire Railway Station-1984
• B1-032/5/59: Aerial views of Saltaire Mill as prints (3)

  The print shows an aerial view of Saltaire Mill including the railway sidings. 'Saltaire Mill' is printed on the bottom right
• 2024.56.10: The second Midland station at Forster Square during the late nineteenth century

  Photograph shows the fron the Midland Railway station at Forster Square in Bradford. Several horse drawn carriages are visible in front of the building, A connected building has a sign 'Refreshment rooms'
• 2022.19: Yorkshire: Pictorial memories

  A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of Francis Frith and Company. Frith establshed a business in th 1860s to photograph every town and village in Britain and provide them for the public to buy. The book includes views of many places across Yorkshire. It includes two photographs of Saltaire on page 28: the railway station with a train arriving and Salts Mill visible in the background; Saltaire (later Roberts) Park along the promenade with the bandstand visible and two women with a pram in the foreground.
• 2024.63: Saltaire, public ations on etc

  Album with plastic pockets containing miscellaneous images and loose items. Contains 26 images in the pockets with 4 loose items. Images are a mixture of buildings, people, Salt family and mill and 2 images of Compound Engines at Salts Mill together with images of the railway station. Loose items include: poster from The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury October 19th 1956 titled 'Salts Saltaire Ltd, Saltaire a guide by D Larvin'; a photograph of Titus Salt House Sailors Children's Society 1966; and an envelope containing a black and white image of Saltaire and farmland.
• 2022.44: 'Bradford Railways Rembered' by Alan Whitaker

  A collection of photographs with text covering the railway network in Bradford district, Airedale and Wharfedale