Items

• H2-022a: James William Roberts birth certificate

  Birth certificate for James William Roberts, the son of James and Elizabeth Roberts
• H2-025a: John Edward Roberts birth certificate

  Birth certificate for John Edward Roberts, the son of James and Elizabeth Roberts
• H2-040: Mr. Bertram F. Roberts.

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts originating from a newspaper article celebrate the wedding of Bertram Roberts and Gertrude Denby
• H2-079: Bertram Roberts and family members

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts with Betty, Mary & James Denby Roberts
• H2-088a: Christening of Susan Elizabeth Roberts

  Photograph of the christening of Susan Elizabeth Roberts, daughter of James Denby Roberts
• H2-092: Young members of the Roberts family

  Two studio photos of unidentified young boys but are likely to be sons of Sir James Roberts (James Denby, Harry, or Jack Roberts)
• H2-140: Roberts Baronetcy

  'Baronetcy for Mr James Roberts' + 'Sir James Roberts and a Parliamentary Candidate (Shipley Times)
• H2-168a-b: James William Roberts

  A photograph of James William Roberts, son of Sir James Roberts
• H2-170a: James William Roberts

  Photograph of James William Roberts, son of Sir James Roberts
• H2-171a: Alice Roberts

  Photograph of Alice Roberts, 1881-1982, a daughter of Sir James Roberts
• H2-176: Bertram with Betty, Mary, and James Roberts

  Photograph of Sir James Roberts' son Bertram and his children Betty, Mary and James Roberts
• H2-186: Roberts

  Photograph of a memorial plaque to John Edward Roberts in Ilkley Church. John Edward was the son of Sir James Roberts. He drowned in Northern Island on a family holiday.
• H2-208.25: Baker Letters - letter to James Roberts concenring sale of Higher Hirst Mill

  Letter to Sir James Roberts from John Baker, informing him of the possible selling of Higher Hirst Mill.
• H2-210: James Roberts Newspaper cuttings book

  A newspaper cutting book compiled by (or on behalf of) James Roberts. The cuttings cover business, social and political issues related to James Roberts. The period covered is from 1905 to 1918.
• H2-041.1: Mr. Bertram F. Roberts - circa 1903

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts.
• H2-041.2: Mr. Bertram F. Roberts - circa 1903

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts
• H2-167d: Willy and Bertie Roberts

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts and James William Roberts as young men, taken at Walter Davey, Harrogate
• 2024.93: The Saltaire Journal Vol.1 No.5 March 2012 The Second Lord of Saltaire, The Family History of Sir James Roberts by David King.

  Includes a snippet about the rally of suffragettes on Shipley Glen 31st May 1908. Includes book reviews of Milner Field the lost country house of Titus Salt junior by Richard Lee-Van den Daele and R David Beale and Rebel Girls by Jill Liddington
• H2-008a: Roberts' letter book 1914-1917

  Book of letters in a red coloured bound ledger, with numbered pages. The letters are mainly typed and are a record of the letters sent by Sir James Roberts while he owned and managed Salts Mill. They cover many business dealings concerning Salts Mill, management of the Mill and Sir James's Milner Field Estate, difficulties in trade during the First World War, the position of his only surviving son in the army during the war. A letter to Mr August Bermann in 1914 dealing with trade in Russia. A letter to Mr Lodge in 1917 discusses the winding up of Belwarp Ltd which was a subsidiary company of Sir Titus Salts Bart., Sons and Co Ltd, based in Argentina. A letter in 1916 to Michael Sadler, Vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, offers an endowment of £10,000 to establish a chair of Russian.
• Messrs Smith, Rhodes, Maddocks and Roberts

  Isaac Smith, John Rhodes, John Maddocks and James Roberts were Bradford businessmen who formed a consortium to purchase the business of Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Co. Limited from the Salt family in 1893. They became directors of the company after the purchase. Smith and Maddocks resigned in 1897 and sold their shares to Roberts. Rhodes resigned in 1902 and also sold his shares to Roberts who then remained as sole owner until 1918.