Saltaire Collection

Items

• E1a-033: Quid Non April 1936

  Copy of Salts School 'The Quid Non' April 1936
• E2-018a-d: Shipley College Documents

  Collection of 4 poster notices for Enrolment at Shipley Technical Institute of School and Art - 1949-1955 a) Enrolment at Shipley Centre, Exhibition Road - 1955-56 b) Enrolment at Shipley Art and Technical Institute - 1954-55 c) Enrolment at Technical Institute and School of Art - 1950-51 d) Enrolment at Shipley Technical Institute and School of Art - 1949-50
• E2-063: Education - Technical School : Documents

  A notice: Shipley Eduction Committee - School of Art Season 1920-21
• E2-064: Technical School reopening poster

  Advert entitled 'Technical School re-opening 20th September 1920'
• E1a-071a: Poster asking for donations for school dinners

  Original poster for Shipley Education Committee asking for donations for school dinners in school holidays
• 2019.2.5: Souvenir letter opener

  1887 Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition Souvenir letter opener with image of Salts High School
• C4a-004: Traces of Salt - Day School at Shipley College

  A folder of papers for a 'Traces of Salt - Day School at Shipley College' (17th September ??)
• E1b-007b: Education, Schools (Documents)

  A mounted photograph print of 'Class at Salts School' c.1914? (with lighthouse on blackboard)
• E1b-008a: Education, Schools (Documents)

  Mounted print of 'Mixed Class Salts School Snapshot Album' c.1900s
• E1b-022a: Photograph of Gilbert Tasker Mahoney, headteacher

  A photograph of Gilbert Tasker Mahoney, Headmaster of Albert Road School. Portrait photograph shows him wearing the President's medallion of the Rotary Club.
• E1b-036b: Education, Schools (Documents)

  Photograph of old boy graduates with master at Salts Boys Boys High School 1918
• E1b-044a: Cricket Team of Salts High

  Card-mounted print of a cricket team at Salts Boys High School (c.1928/9)
• E1b-064a: Education, Schools (Images)

  1 Laminated copy of photograph of the Staff of Salts Girls High School (with IDs)
• Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition

  During the 1880s there was an increased demand for school places in Saltaire. A new School of Art and Science was built on the edge of Saltaire, behind Victoria Hall on what is now Exhibition Road. To help pay for the costs, Titus Salt Junior proposed a major exhibition that would also be a memorial to his late father Sir Titus Salt. The exhibition was held in 1887, and named the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition to also celebrate the golden jubilee of Queen Victoria. The exhibition was opened by one of Victoria's children, Princess Beatrice of Battenburg. Unfortunately, the exhibition failed to meet its costs and that of the new school.
• 2019.55.2: Student reports

  Salt Girls High School report booklet belonging to Ivy Severs, 1929. Ivy was later married and became Ivy Muschamp. She ran a grocers shop on Victoria Road in Saltaire in the 1950s.
• 2024.5: Second Forster Bulletin of the Forster Society, Bradford

  Compilation of papers written by Bradford teachers. Includes 'Shipley in the time of the School Board' written by Margaret Cooper c.1971/72 as part of her teacher training studies. It contains an account of the schools in Saltaire at the time. Bulletin date C.1974
• 2024.141: Domestic Pests: What they are and how to remove them

  A book by Laura Hunter on the biology of various domestic pests. Deals with their appearance (with many illustrations), and their lifecycles. Gives advice on preventing and dealing with infestations. The author Lura Hunter (nee Thorpe) was born in 1897 and brought up in Baildon, near Saltaire. She attended Salt Girls High School and went on to study for a B.Sc. at the University of Liverpool. She graduated in 1919. See also 2024.142 for a brief biography of Laura Hunter.
• E1a-088: School Slate

  School slate
• Shipley College Centenary

  Today Shipley College occupies several buildings in Saltaire. The College's origins lie in the Technical and Art School based in the Exhibition Building in Saltaire. Briefly named the School of Art and Science, the new school was conceived by Titus Salt Junior and opened in 1887. The 100th anniversary of foundation of the College, and its predecessors, was celebrated in 1987.
• Byles, Harriet

  Harriet Byles first taught at the Salts High School for girls when Medina Griffiths was headmistress. Harriet became the second, and longest-serving, headmistress of the school in 1886. From what she wrote in her lengthy 'reminiscences', Harriet clearly admired her predecessor and followed Medina's enlightened principles in the education of her students. Her philosophy was that both work and play ‘honestly and heartily done’ was of equal importance. Many of her pupils achieved university places and worthwhile careers.