Saltaire Collection

Items

• B1-341: Salts Mill: Saltaire Maps and Plans Case

  Copy of plan of Saltaire Mill between the railway and the river. By W.Rhodes Nunn
• C1-002: Saltaire village - Maps & Plans

  Laminated copy of a plan of Saltaire with 10 plots around mill measured c.1880s + allotments by river
• C2a-125.8: The children of Charles I

  Picture of children and swan by a river. One of a pack of 33 attendance cards from Albert Road School awarded to Donald Berry
• 2021.4.8.4: Photocopy of 2021.4.8.3

  The original handwritten conveyance, dated 5th January 1921, is an original deed, transferring Hirst Mills and Hirst House, and land behind the house between the river and the canal, to Glyn Thomas. Registered at the West Riding Registry of Deeds 17th January 1921. The conveyance includes a coloured plan of the land referenced in the deed
• C3b-271: Dixon Mill Lane to Victoria Road

  Booklet by local historian Ian Watson on the history of Dixon Mill Lane. This was a road that ran from what was the Shipley to Bramley Turnpike Road (now Saltaire Road) to Dixon's Mill, a seventeenth century mill located next to the river. Ian's document details the complex history of the lane until it was finally replaced by Victoria Road in Saltaire. Includes extracts of maps and plans.
• F1a-006a-c: John Nicholson, the 'Airedale Poet'

  Notes by Clive Wood? on the life of John Nicholson, the 'Airedale Poet' who died in 1843 after crossing the river in what was to become Saltaire in 1853.