Items

• 2021.4.9.2.2: Part of a Mortgage contract

  A 'Certificate of Registration of a Mortgage or Charge' created by Glyn Thomas & Co. dated 6th January 1921, paper-clipped to the original mortgage Indenture, 2021.4.9.2.1
• A1-125: Notes on two documents related to Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co. Ltd.

  Detailed notes on two original documents 'Memorandum and Suggestions',1883 and 'Statement and Scheme for reconstruction', 1892 relating to the Salt family business. The original documents are available as 2024.65 and 2024.66 (with a typewrtitten copy also availalbe at 2018.36.3). Local historian David King gives a detailed interpretation of two key documents in the history of the Salt textile business and Saltaire. The first doucment is a suggestion for a financial reconstruction of Sir TItus Salt Barts. Sons & Co. Ltd to meet its liabilities. The second document describes the status of the company in 1892 when it was facing voluntary liquidation and being bought by a consortium of local businessmen inlcuding James Roberts.
• A2-008a: Milner Field, For Sale

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date.
• A2-028: Salt Family - Residences

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date. This copy includes image of the inside of one of the gate houses and a newspaper cutting 'Sir Titus Salt - A man of Two statues' taken from the Times and Express April 20th 1966.
• A2-030: Milner Field for Sale

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date.
• B1-032/5/16: Steam turbine (1)

  Steam turbine 1 is to the right of the photograph. A clock shows the time is 11.10am. The turbine is named after 'Mary', one of Sir james Roberts granddaughters
• B1-032/5/18: Steam turbine (3)

  A close up of the steam turbine 'Mary', named after Sir James Roberts' granddaughter. In the top right of the photograph is a small section of ornate wall.
• B1-032/5/19: Steam turbine (4)

  Photograph shows a close up of the steam turbine named 'Mary' after Sir James Roberts' granddaughter. The wall to the right is very ornately tiled.
• B1-336a-d: Salts Mill generator

  Photographic copper plate and 3 photographs of Salt's Mill generator named 'Mary' after one of Sir James Roberts' granddaughters
• B1-361-1: Union Textile Fabrication

  Union Textile Fabrication by Roberts Beaumont (1919)
• B1-361-3: Tom Wilkinson's books and papers.

  Dress, Blouse and Costume Cloths by Roberts Beamont (1921)
• F1a-381: The Carnegie Library, Shipley

  Photograph of the Carnegie Library in Shipley. The Library was opened by Joseph Wright and James Roberts in 1905.
• H2-026c: Elizabeth Foster Birth certificate

  Copy of a birth certificate for Elizabeth Foster, the daughter of William & Mary Foster
• H2-078: Management of Salts Mill

  The history of the management of Salts Mill up to 1900 by an unknown author
• H2-093a,c,d: Margaret Aykroyd and family members

  Photograph of Margaret Aykroyd with mother May, grandmother and great grandmother
• H2-099a: Family group

  Photograph of an unidentified group ( on reverse: 'For Willie, with grandmother's love Dec. 1897')
• H2-100: A hunting party

  Photograph of an unidentified group including a man with a rifle, also a dog
• H2-101a: Group outside a hotel

  An unidentified group outside a hotel
• H2-102: Clara Denby

  Photograph of Clara Denby, wife of Ellis Denby, with book by 'Lafeyette'
• H2-103a: Clara Denby

  A studio photograph of Clara Denby, wife of Ellis Denby, with a black plumed hat