Saltaire Collection

Items

• C3b-311: Aire Valley Living

  Loose pages of: 'Aire Valley Living' magazine with article on Saltaire
• 2016.7: Aire Valley Road enquiry

  Ring-bound folder on the Aire Valley Road enquiry: 1984-1996
• Saltaire Cricket Club

  Saltaire Cricket Club was founded in 1869 and still operates today. It's home has always been Roberts (orginally Saltaire) Park where it has a scenic pitch and pavillion with a backdrop of the River Aire, Salts Mill and the United Reformed Church. Among its more famous players was the England bowler Sydney Barnes who played for the club between 1915 and 1925 and helped Saltaire win the Bradford League three times. Jim Laker, the outstanding England spin bowler of the 1950s, lived in Shipley, attended the Salt High School and played for the Cricket Club in the late 1930s. The club remains very active today playing in the Aire & Wharefdale Senior Cricket League.
• C2b-032.3: Saltaire boathouse in 1900s

  Photograph of Saltaire boathouse in early 1900s showing steamboat on the river Aire. A large number of people are visible watching the steamboat from both banks of the river.
• B1-218b: Poetry or Bust

  Booklet: 'Poetry or Bust' a play by Tony Harrison. It tells the story of John Nicholson a sometime woolsorter but published playwrite and poet known as the 'Airedale Poet'. Despite some success, Nicholson moved to Bradford and found work with Titus Salt as a woolsorter. He died while trying to cross the River Aire in 1943 in what became Saltaire about 10 years later. Tony Harrison's play tells the story of Nicholson's life and was first performed in Salts Mill in 1993, 150 years after his death and only 100 metres or so from where he tried to cross the river.
• F1a-191: 'The Alpaca - Its Introduction to Australia

  A paper read before the Society of Arts London by George Ledger. George Ledger was the brother of Charles Ledger the main importer of alpacas from Peru. The paper outlines the story of Titus Salt's involvement with the early production.
• 2021.4.4: Abstract of land transfers

  An abstract of title relating to transfers, sales and purchases of land at Hirst wood - 1866 - 1911 - Information in printed text
• C2b-110: Salts Mill and river bridge

  Photograph of Salts Mill and river bridge by Walter Scott
• H2-208.106: Baker Letters - regarding: sale of Milner House and land; land south of river is still for sale

  Confidential - Mr Robinson & Mr Foster (solicitor) offered for Milner House; Sold to Mr Foster including land between Primrose Land & Baildon Bridge for £72,500 plus furniture; land south of river is still for sale
• H2-208.129: Baker Letters - regarding: Met Midland engineer; workshop; Hirst Mill and cottages; sale of stables and fields; sale of land between river and canal

  Met Midland engineer; Mr Normington erected workshop; Glynn Thomas occupies Higher Hirst Mill & cottages & may buy mill; Mr Feather, butcher, wants to buy stables & fields; man who bought Clarkeâ??s greengrocer also wants land between river & canal
• C2b-261: The Cricket Pavillion in Roberts Park and river

  A 'Walter Scott' postcard of the Cricket Pavillion and river.
• C4a-016-15: Saltaire History Club

  Various documents relating to Saltaire History Club and Saltaire Exhibitions, - Laminated copy of Airevalley Advertiser report on a map of the Aire Valley from 1840 - 19 July 2013 6ft Map of the Aire Valley rescued from the tip
• B1-077: Salts Mill

  Copy of postcard of the New Mill from the River Aire
• D3-134: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Sleeve with 4 photos of rowing & rafting on the River Aire at Saltaire plus newspaper cutting
• Playing Fields, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The Playing Fields are a recreational area near the bottom of Victoria Road and near the River Aire on the edge of Saltaire. Salts Sports Association is based here and there are football and cricket grounds and Salts Tennis Club
• 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.
• F1a-174: Poems by John Nicholson

  Hard back book of poems by John Nicholson, The Airedale Poet, with a sketch of his life and writings. The book is inscribed on the flyleaf cover in 1918 and there is a newspaper cutting from the Yorkshire Evening Post pasted onto the inside cover. The Death notices from the Bradford Telegraph and Argus from 3rd October 1934. Nicholson died in 1843 trying to cross the river Aire near Dixon's Mill (which was later demolished and replaced by the 'New Mill' part of Saltaire's Salts Mill)
• B1-313a-b: Salts Mill and weir

  Photograph of Salts Mill and weir on the river Aire
• C2b-230: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  'On the River Aire, Bingley'
• C2b-329: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  Victoria Road bridge over the River Aire (+ newspaper article 1958 re. new footbridge on reverse)