Items

• 2021.8: Salt & Saltaire by W.E. Alderson

  Book - Salt & Saltaire by William Edward Alderson containing text and mainly modern coloured photographs of Saltaire. Information on Dr Alderson in the Foreward.
• C3b-024: Saltaire - A Sketch History

  Saltaire a Sketch a booklet published by Sir Titus Salt Bart and sons Ltd. This is the USA version, used to promote the company and was sold for 25 cents. It is similar to the later Jubilee version published in 1903.
• 2019.36: Sir Titus Salt. Baronet: His Life and its Lessons.

  Biography of Sir Titus Salt written by his friend and associate Reverend Robert Balgarnie who was Minister of South Cliff Church, Scarborough. The book has 20 chapters and includes 4 illustrations, including one of Crow's Nest Lightcliffe and of the Manor House in Morley where Sir Titus was born.
• B1-411: 'Worth its Salt' + 'Will Council Learn From the Past' 15th December 2001

  Telegraph and Argus article
• 2022.19: Yorkshire: Pictorial memories

  A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of Francis Frith and Company. Frith establshed a business in th 1860s to photograph every town and village in Britain and provide them for the public to buy. The book includes views of many places across Yorkshire. It includes two photographs of Saltaire on page 28: the railway station with a train arriving and Salts Mill visible in the background; Saltaire (later Roberts) Park along the promenade with the bandstand visible and two women with a pram in the foreground.
• Hanson, Donald

  Donald Hanson was the chair and chief executive of Illingworth, Morris the last owners of Salts Mill as a textiles business in the 1980s. His great grandfather was Chief Engineer for Sir Titus Salt.
• Milner, Doris

  Doris was born in Saltaire, around 1912. Her family lived in Constance Street and she attended Albert Road School. Doris married a man who farmed at the site now occupied by Buttershaw School. Doris's father and grandfather both worked in Salts Mill. Doris had a great love for Saltaire and still kept her interest in the area until she died in 2006. Doris kindly donated a collection of 6 books she had received as prizes from the Saltaire Congregational Church for attending Sunday School.
• Morrell, George

  George arrived in Saltaire in 1860 to be an assistant teacher in the Factory School that provided part-time education for some of the children working in Salts Mill. By the early 1870s he was the headmaster, later moving to be head of the nearby Shipley Central School. George was a member of the Saltaire Congregational Church and long-serving Superintendent of its magnificent Sunday School. A life-long teetotaller, George promoted responsible drinking and was one of the founders of the Shipley Temperance Union in 1892, becoming President in 1902. He finally retired after 45 years of service. He was obviously fondly thought of and well respected. A magnificent illuminated presentation book was given to him on retirement, paid for by public subscription and to which Sir James Roberts and many eminent past-students contributed.
• Royal Cafe

  A privately run cafe based in the original Salts Mill Dining Hall on Victoria Road in Saltaire.
• Saltaire Arts Trail

  Saltaire Arts Trail is a community arts event sually held every year in May. The Trail presents artworks from both emerging and established artists in venues throughout Saltaire, including private residences as well as Salts Mill, public buildings and outdoor spaces.
• Saltaire Cricket Club

  Saltaire Cricket Club was founded in 1869 and still operates today. It's home has always been Roberts (orginally Saltaire) Park where it has a scenic pitch and pavillion with a backdrop of the River Aire, Salts Mill and the United Reformed Church. Among its more famous players was the England bowler Sydney Barnes who played for the club between 1915 and 1925 and helped Saltaire win the Bradford League three times. Jim Laker, the outstanding England spin bowler of the 1950s, lived in Shipley, attended the Salt High School and played for the Cricket Club in the late 1930s. The club remains very active today playing in the Aire & Wharefdale Senior Cricket League.
• B1-468: Museums in Saltaire

  Collection of Telegraph & Argus cuttings on the planned museums in Salts Mill
• 2022.59: Saltaire - A Sketch History

  An original copy of the 1898 version of 'Saltaire - A Sketch' with a 'Brief Description of its origin and Later Developments'. Illustrated with original photographs. This is a copy directed at the United States and is priced at 25 cents.
• C3b-261: Saltaire - A Sketch History

  Copy of booklet: 'Saltaire - A Sketch History, with a brief Description of its origin and Later Developments. This is the USA Edition, sold to promote the business in America.
• B1-423: Satellite dishes in Saltaire

  Telegraph & Argus cutting regarding Satellite dishes in Saltaire (15th May 1990)
• 2019.62: With the Complements of the Telegraph & Argus

  A pack of 5 prints of drawings of: Saltaire Mills; Riddlesden Hall; Raggalans Inn, Queensbury; The Alhambra Theatre; Bradford; Bingley Church
• 2019.9.2.2: Town plan

  Showing the town and works of Saltaire and Saltaire Park. From an original plan by Lockwood and Mawson c.1870. The park was under construction in 1870, but was always part of the Lockwood and Mawsons plan for the Town, so this may be a plan for the future or it may be to show the completed work. The corner site at the west end of Gordon Terrace is not yet developed. This site was bought by Sir Titus in 1874.
• A1-011a: Sir Titus Salt's subscription for seats on opening of Royal Albert Hall

  Documents relating to Sir Titus Salt's subscription for seats on opening of Royal Albert Hall 29th March 1871. The seats were 'to be endowed for the use of his firm and persons employed at Saltaire when they came to London'. Information from the Royal Albert Hall.
• B1-145/a-i: Pamela Mason's dispute with Illingworth, Morris and Co Ltd.

  News cuttings on Pamela Mason's dispute with Illingworth, Morris and Co Ltd. There are nine items: a. Pamela weaves textiles turmoil; b. Men and matters: shooting star at the Savoy; c. Request from Mrs Mason baffles IM; d. Why Mrs Mason is throwing fireworks; e. Illingworth MOrris staff needs support; f. Star's ex-wife wins family's boardroom row; g. Exit Mrs Mason, enter new doubts; h. Mrs Mason in a new round of hostilities; i. Portland's bill upsets the Illingworth shareholders.
• C2b-102/10/14: Tunnel to Royal cafe (75)

  Tunnel to Royal cafe (75). One of a collection of Slides relating to Saltaire compiled by Albert Bowtell.