Items · Saltaire Collection

B1-032/5/4: Salts Mill offices and Mill from the railway bridge (2)

Salts Mill can be seen on the right half of the photograph with a partial view of Salts Mill offices. A street lamp can be seen in the centre of the picture

C3a-080: Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8

Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8: Three stories of Polish people who experienced the horrors of World War2 - to later find employment in Salts Mill and new lives in the Bradford District of West Yorkshire' by Maggie Smith.

Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The first building to be constructed in Saltaire, Salts Mill was designed to manufacture textiles on a truly industrial scale. Titus Salt’s intention was to incorporate all elements of the manufacturing process under one roof, rather than each taking place at a separate location as his previous mills in Bradford required.Employing around 4000 workers, the Mill was the very heart of Saltaire. Part of Salt’s motivation to build Saltaire was his concern over the pollution and living conditions in Bradford. To prevent Saltaire suffering the same issues, each of the chimneys was fitted with an early device to remove pollutants from smoke. The Mill changed hands many times over the years. Following the collapse of the textile industry in West Yorkshire, processes were gradually moved out of the Salts Mill building. In 1985, the last processes were relocated, and the empty mill put up for sale. In 1987, Jonathan Silver purchased the Mill and refurbished it into the building we see today. Rather than a single manufacturing centre, the Mill is both the site of multiple new businesses and a cultural hub with shops, an art gallery and restaurant.

2025.91: Pepper Lee, Saltaire Factory Fire Photographs

Pepper Lee, Saltaire Factory Fire Photographs. 6 coloured photographs showing a fire at Pepper Lee (New Mill) Saltaire Village 1. Coloured photograph of New Mill taken from the canal side Victoria Road showing New Mill chimney with a fire in one of the top windows. Possibly 1980s. 2. Coloured photograph of New Mill taken from the canal side Victoria Road showing New Mill chimney with the fire in one of the top windows more pronounced. Possibly 1980s. 3. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill window showing two firemen on the canal side trying to extinguish the fire. 4. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing the fire extinguished but with more smoke. 5.Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing the fire extinguished but with even more smoke in front of the mill chimney. 6. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing that the fire has been extiguished and something being thrown from the window

2025.76: The Future of Salts Mill - Appendices

Appendices to the main Report by management consultants KMG Thomson McLintock commissioned by City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. The study was commissioned to review the future of the Salts Mill site in 1987. The main report is available as 2025.75. This booklet contains several appendices including terms of reference, potential sources of funding, and costings.

B1-032/5/14: Salts Mill :Volume Five : Collections of photographs of Saltaire Mill

Canal barges by the New Mill (1)

B1-032/5/3: Salts Mill offices and Mill from the railway bridge (1)

The top of a street lamp is visible in the foreground and some railings can be seen in the lower right of the photograph

B1-446a: The opening Salts Mill

Original two-sided page from the Illustrated London News article on the opening of Saltaire Mills with illustrations

2025.110: The Salts Mill Association membership card enclosed in green plastic wallet

3. Salts Mill Association membership cards enclosed in green plastic wallet 1.Salts Mill Association membership card enclosed in green plastic wallet belonging to Joyce Bowtell and is numbered 004. It also includes her red Northcliffe Golf Club Social Member card. 2.Salts Mill Association membership cards enclosed in green plastic wallet. Unused 3. Salts Mill Association membership cards enclosed in green plastic wallet. Unused

C2b-102/11/10: Collection of Slides relating to Saltaire: Compiled by Bowtell, Albert. The Campanile tower of the church was the inspiration for the chimney of the 'New Mill', an extnsion to the original Salts Mill.

Collection of Slides relating to Saltaire: Compiled by Bowtell, Albert. The Campanile tower of the church was the inspiration for the chimney of the 'New Mill', an extnsion to the original Salts Mill.. One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.

2018.56: Saltaire

Souvenir booklet for the visit of King George V and Queen Mary on 29 May 1918 to Salts Mill. The Mill had recently been purchased from James Roberts by a group of local businessmen whose photographs are featured in the booklet. It also contains photographs of Salts Mill, and a brief textual history of the mill and Saltaire. There is a plan of the mill site with different areas identified. The booklet contains a brief desciption, photographs of processes in the mill, and a plan of the mill showing the location of various processes. In the centre pages there is an artist's impression of the King and Queen in the Burling and Mending room.