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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. -
Beatrice, Princess Princess Beatrice was the youngest child of Queen Victoria. In 1887 she visited Saltaire with her husband Prince Henry of Battenburg to preside at the opening of the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee, an exhibition to celebrate her mother's silver jubilee, and organised by TItus Salt Junior in honour of his father and to help funding of the new School of Art and Science in the village. The Royal party stayed with Titus Junior and his wife Catherine at thier home of Milner Field. -
Salt, Catherine Catherine was born in 1846 into one family of textile magnates, the Crossleys of Halifax, and married into another when Titus Salt Junior became her husband in 1866. In some ways Catherine was quite conventional, raising four children and running her privileged Victorian household, including hosting the Prince of Wales and later his sister Princess Beatrice at her home. But Catherine clearly had deep and wide interests in social and educational issues, particularly the education of girls. She helped found Bradford Girls Grammar School and served for many years on its board, and also the board of the Salt Schools. -
Milner Field, Bingley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Milner Field was a neo-gothic mansion built for Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt. They purchased Milner Field Estate on the ourskirts of Bingley in 1869. An existing manor house and farm were demolished and replaced with a new house, completed in 1871, and a new model farm. At Milner Field, the Salts hosted the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1882 when they were visting Bradford. In 1887 Princess Beatrice and her husband also stayed at the house while visting to open the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire. -
C3a-081: Story of a life and work in Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Story of a life and work in Salts (Saltaire) Ltd - Frank Senior, researched and compiled by Maggie Smith. Includes account of being born in 1918 and growing up in Saltaire, and of working at Salts Mill as a textile designer, and in the costing department. -
2025.60: Sir Titus Salt and Sons - a farming legacy Sir Titus Salt and Sons - a farming legacy. A soft covered book revealing that Sir Titus Salt and four of his sons were also involved in agriculture and farming as well as manufacturing The book is a detailed explanation of various aspects of the Kindergarten system, covering: Kindergarten gifts; Occupations; Ordinary school subjects; Singing; and Drill. A book by Alan Cattell building on research by local historians and three members of the Salt family to show that Sir Titus Salt and four of his sons were involved in agriculture and farming -
F1a-173a-b: The Italian Contribution to Shipley Textile Manufacturing. The Ricciardo (Mackin) Sisters' story from 1957 The story of Italian sisters Dora and Margherita Mackin with refrences to Velia Campbell (all nee Ricciardo). Account of their early lives in Italy and then travelling to Britain in the 1950s to work in the textile industry. -
2015.1: Dayton tea pot Teapot, taken to Dayton as a wedding gift for Percival and Eva (nee Hanson) Johnson. Percy was involved in the financial management of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company set up by the directors of Sir Titus Salt (Bart), Sons and Co Ltd. Eva was the youngest daughter of William Hanson, the head of the engineering department at Salts Mill. The Saltaire historians Dave Shaw and David King visitied Dayton to research its history and were given the teapot to to give to Eva's great-nephew Donald Hanson, who had been the chair of Illingworth, Morris the last owners of Salts Mill as a working textiles business. Donald donated the teapot to the collection, as he considered it 'a known 19th century artefact that binds the communities of Saltaire & Dayton'. -
2025.24: The Bradford Antiquary 2013 The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.17 2013. Contains chapter entitled ' A Sound and Liberal Education for Girls. The Origins of Bradford Girls' Grammar School ' by Pauline Ford. Discusses formation of the Bradford Ladies' Education Association, a key member being Catherine Salt. -
A3-169g: Letter to Catherine Salt about the visit of Princess Beatrice Letter (and envelope) from Sir Henry Ponsonby regarding Princess Beatrice's visit to Milner Field for the opening of the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.
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