Saltaire Collection

Items

• H2-160b: Oxenhope Mill: James Roberts' first employment

  A photograph of Oxenhope Mill where Sir James Roberts first worked as a boy.
• H2-210.2: Page 1 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  Title page 'Century'
• H2-209.1: James Roberts Diary 1884

  Copy of a diary written by James Roberts on a visit to Australia in 1884
• H2-178a,c: Photographs of James Henry Roberts

  James Henry Roberts at different ages, although identity of the person pictured is not confirmed. James William Roberts was the son of Sir James Roberts
• H2-167a: Bertram and James William Roberts

  Photograph of Bertram Roberts and James William Roberts, sons of Sir James Roberts, as young boys. The photograph was taken at Appleton & Co., Bradford
• H2-149: Roberts Military Tribunal

  'The Case of Sir James Roberts: The Military Service Tribunal'. Article in the Bradford Pioneer, 1916 concerning an attempt to exempt Joseph Henry Roberts, son of Sir James Roberts, from war service.
• H2-210.18: Pages 31-32 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  Feb 23 1907 West Riding County Council nominations. April 16 1907 James Roberts in South Africa (1). April 16 1907 South Africa continued from April 16th (2). May 10-11 1907 adverts. June 28 1907 Roberts donation to Bradford Infirmary. Aug 7-10 1907 adverts.
• H2-210.20: Pages 35-36 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  Oct 21 1908 The affairs of a Yarn Merchant (B.H. Gosling). Nov 18 1908 Roberts on W.H. Mitchell and Tariff Reform (1). Nov 19 1908 Letter on Mr James Roberts and Free Trade.
• H2-210.23: Pages 41-42 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  June 30 to Nov 29 1909 adverts. Nov 9 1909 - Roberts' Baronetcy. Feb 14-16 1910 adverts. Feb 25-26 -10 adverts. Aug 6 -10 Sir James Roberts and Strathallan Castle. 1910 New Motor Licences.
• H2-210.28: Pages 51-52 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  Jan 17 1912 Funeral of Bertram Foster Roberts. Jan 30 1912 Jockeys loans - Huddersfield Manufacturer sued. Feb 14 -1911 advert. March 18 -12 Probate for B.F. Roberts. May 22-25 1912 advert. May 24-27- 12 advert. June 11 1912 Copies of the Insurance Stamps. Aug 3-6 1912 advert. Aug 21 1912 Anthrax at Saltaire Mill.
• H2-210.6: Pages 7-8 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  May 4 1906 Shipley Urban District Council business. May 11 1906 Dr. Ellis on Council election. May 11 1906 Mr Roberts offer for a new hospital. May 11 1906 Mr and Mrs Roberts on holiday.
• H2-210.7: Pages 9-10 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  May 17 1906 Strike at Salts Mill. May 18 1906 Strike at Salts Mill. May 18 1906 Mr Roberts offer to Shipley for a new hospital considered by Shipley Trades and Labour Committee. May 18 1906 Letter regarding Roberts' offer of a new hospital
• H2-210.8: Pages 11-12 from a book of James Roberts' newspaper cuttings 1905-1918

  May 18 1906 Mr Roberts' offer for a new hospital to Shipley (2). May 25 1906 Sir Titus Salt's Charity annual financial statement. May 25 1906 Letter re. Roberts offer to Shipley. May 25 1906 Salts Mill Officials at Arnside
• 2019.2.1: Souvenir Cup

  1887 Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition Souvenir cup decorated with a view of Roberts Park.
• 2020.12.2: Photograph of Alpacas

  A photograph of the statue of two aplacas in Roberts Park in 2020
• C2b-286c: Almshouses, and Half-Moon Cafe

  One of a folder of mounted postcards and photographs of Saltaire.Almshouses, and Half-Moon Cafe in Roberts Park
• F1a-370: Jim Laker 19-90

  A book about a former student of Salts High School around 1933 to 1937 by by Brian Scovel. Laker won a scholorship to Salts School, his mother was a teacher. He was a regular player on the school cricket team and played for Saltaire Cricket Club, based in Roberts Park, for three seasons in the late 1930s. He left school in 1939 and in 1941 joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and was posted in Egypt. While there he set up a cricket team. Once he returned from the war, he was unable to join the Yorkshire team so played for Surrey and represented England. At Old Trafford in 1956 during the Ashes Test match with Australia he famously took 19 wickets out of 20 (Tony Lock who played for Surry took the other) enabling England to win the Ashes. It is known as the Laker Test match, and is still a record for most wickets taken by one bowler in a first cass cricket match.
• 2022.72: Photographic postcards of Saltaire and Shipley from the early twentieth centuries

  Black and white photographic postcards of various scenes in and near Saltaire and Shipley. Includes: a view of Salts Mill from the United Reformed Church; the bandstand and the status of Sir Titus Salt in Roberts Park; the canal lock near Hirst Wood (about a mile from Saltaire); Market Place in Shipley; the Otley Road bridge over the river AIre in Shipley.
• D2-018.7: The Lord Mayor's Victorian Funday

  The official programme of the The Lord Mayor's Victorian Funday held across the Village including Roberts Park.
• C2b-056: Saltaire village (Images of places)

  Set of 5 photographs on a Roberts Park festival