Items · Saltaire Collection

The successor school to the Salt High Schools following the education reforms of 1944. It subsequently became the comprehensive Sir Titus Salt school and is now located just outside Saltaire on the north side of Roberts Park.

World Heritage Day

World Heritage Day is an informal name for International Day for Monuments and Sites, nominally 18 April. Annual events are organised around this date to celebrate the concept of UNESCO World Heritage sites, such as Saltaire. In Saltaire, events are often held at the weekend near to 18 April. The actual celebrations vary from year to year, but have included heritage exhibitions, small festivals based in Roberts Park, and public processions at dusk featuring a range of lights.

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.

Salt High School

The Salt High School opened in 1876. Initially it occupied temporary accommodation, mainly in the Saltaire Club and Institute. In 1878 it moved into the building on Victoria Road that had originally been built to house the Factory School for Salts Mill. The High School was open to both boys and girls although they were educated separately. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original buildingis part of Shipley College, a further education institution.

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.

B1-082a,c: Salts (Saltaire) Ltd marketing booklet

An advertising booklet for Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Contains text briefly describing the history of the business, but mainly concerning the workings of Salts Mill and the new mill at Uddingston, Scotland at the time of public ation. Contains many photographs of mill machinery being used to produce textiles. Also includes photographs of amenities provided by the business including: a hostel for women workers; a clinic; leisure sports facilities in nearby sports grounds and Roberts Park. There is some coverage at the end of the booklet of the new factory at Uddingston.

2018.23.1: Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate

Plate decorated with 'Saltaire Cricket Pavillion, Merrie England Bazaar 1927' transfer.

D2-011: Saltaire Cricket Club souvenir book

Saltaire Cricket Club 1869-1969' (Souvenir Centenery Booklet)

D2-042: Saltaire Cricket Club 1869-1969

Cenetary Booklet 'Saltaire Cricket Club 1869-1969'

D2-017.1: Commemorative Programme for the Grand Re-Opening of the Saltaire Cricket Club

Commemorative programme for the grand re-opening of the Saltaire Cricket Club

2018.36.6: Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Batenburg planting a tree.

Black and white tinted large framed photograph of Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Battenburg planting a tree. The tree planting may have been at either Milner Field or in what is now Roberts Park. The tree planting was part of the Royal visit to open the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887 to celebrate the opening of the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.

2020.2.1: Harold Kendall in his allotment

Coloured photograph of Harold Kendall amongst his roses in his allotment in Saltaire. Allotment is located behind Saltaire United Reformed Church, shows Roberts Park in background.

C2a-077.2: Photographs and Memories of Saltaire Folk

Photocopies of photographs of Salts Cricket Club c.1940s

C2b-139: Saltaire Boathouse and the river Aire

Photocopy of coloured postcard of the Saltaire Boathouse and the river Aire. Marked 'The River Saltaire'

C2b-380e: Saltaire village Images (Places)

Photograph taken at the top of Salts Mill Chimney - Looking down on the mill & Roberts Park

D1-023: Salts Mill Cricket Team

Photograph of Salts Mill Cricket Team (players identified)

D2-009: Saltaire Cricket Club

photograph of Saltaire Cricket Club

D2-040: Saltaire Veterans Cricket Club

Two photographs of Saltaire Veterans Cricket Club in 1912.