Saltaire Collection

Items

• C2b-058.3: Saltaire Floods 2000 - Playing Fields

  A photograph displaying the floods at the playing fields (tennis court and bowling green).
• C2b-058.5: Saltaire Floods 2000 - Boathouse Inn

  Set of 5 photographs displaying the flooding of Boathouse Inn.
• H2-208.261: Baker Letters - payment of arrears

  Letter from H Baguley [new husband of Mrs Park]. Mrs Baguley will not be able to pay arrears but will do her best.
• D2-017.2: Letters confirming the re-development of Saltaire Cricket Club

  Two letters to Clive Woods, Chair of the Saltaire Village Society, confirming funding for re-developing the Saltaire Cricket Club.
• D1-079: Bandstand Back

  Original copy of 'The Saltaire Sentinal' with article: 'Bandstand Back' (May 2010)
• D2-051: Fixture list for Saltaire Cricket Club 1998

  Copy of Fixture list for Saltaire Cricket Club 1998
• 2024.150.1: Activities planned for the Conversazione

  A typewrittenlist of activites in Victoria Hall as part of the 2015 Conversazione. The list is arranged by rooms and includes displays, comeercial and social group stalls, and various practical activities. Also includes some activities hosted elsewhere in the village including music performances in Roberts Park and a 'Boat fair' near the canal.
• D2-017.3: Project Brief for the Re-development of Saltaire Cricket Club

  Project brief for the re-development of Saltaire Cricket Club.
• 2019.44: China cup with blue motif of Saltaire Cricket Pavilion

  Commemorative small white cup with with gold rim. A blue motif shows Saltaire Cricket Pavilion from about 1927, surrounded by trees. There is wording underneath which reads: 'The Cricket Pavillion, Saltaire' MERRIE ENGLAND BAZAAR. NOV-DEC 1927
• 2020.16.1: Clive Woods interviewed

  The Audio CD is a partial transfer from cassette tapes of a recording of an interview with Clive Woods, local Saltaire bookshop owner, historian, and heritage campaigner. Clive is being interviewed by Graham Haughton of the University of Manchester. The recording of the start of the interview is of poor quality. Clive Woods talks about his part in the process of making Saltaire into a World Heritage Site. He starts by referring to the reopening of Saltaire Railway Station (closed in the 1960s) in the 1980s and claims that this was the start of the 'gentrification' of Saltaire. He goes on to talk about the campaign agains a proposed Shipley bye-pass that would have gone along the route of Coach Road next to Roberts Park. Clive also mentions some of the older inhabitants of Saltaire, church officials in the village, and Bradford Council having no interest in preserving Saltaire, but how they gradually changed their minds. He refers to the influence of the well-known historian Roy Strong of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Bradford entrepreneur Jonathan Silver. He goes on to talk about the origin of the Saltaire Village Society and the part it played in influencing English Heritage and UNESCO in the preservation and protection of Saltaire.
• 2018.23.2: Saltaire Cricket Pavillion commemorative plate

  Plate decorated with 'Saltaire Cricket Pavillion, Merrie England Bazaar 1927' transfer.
• B1-368a-b: Salts Mill

  2 photocopies of a Black and White postcard of the New Mill from Roberts Park with cast-iron bridge and boathouse
• C2b-228: Cricket match

  'Saltaire' (showing Mill & a cricket match)
• C2b-269: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  View looking down on Office & mill roofs to Roberts Park
• D2-017.4: Newsletter of the Saltaire Cricket Club

  Newsletter of the Saltaire Cricket Club
• D2-017.5: Advertisements for the Saltaire Cricket Club season

  Advertisements for the Saltaire Cricket Club 1999 season
• 2021.4.10: Part of a Mortgage contract

  A typed written abstract of a mortgage dated 6th January 1921 and 6th October 1922 reating to Hirst House, Shipley: Between Glyn Thomas & Company and Sir James Roberts. Also reference to the mortgage having been paid off in 1934
• H2-074: Scroll and casket

  Photograph of the scroll and casket presented by his staff to James Roberts.
• H2-081a,c: Naming the new turbo-generator Mary

  Photograph of the naming of the new Turbo-generator by the grandchildren of James Roberts. The generator is named 'Mary' after his granddaughter.
• Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Oxenhope is a rural village near to Haworth and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Sir James Roberts was born in Oxenhope.