Items · Saltaire Collection

2025.61: Shipley Glen - the history and development of a Victorian playground

Shipley Glen - the history and development of a Victorian playground by Alan Cattell. The book includes information on Sunday School / Temperance visits, ownership of the Glen, the Saltaire Exhibition. the Shipley Glen Pleasure Grounds and Japanese Gardens on Prod Lane

E1b-003: Randall Collection - Education, Schools (Documents)

Photocopy of photograph of St Peter's Church Sunday School group including Peter Randall + reverse

2018.9.2.4.1.1: Papers relating to Philanthropy

Part of a series of letters, from Henry Williamson, Saltaire Congregational Church Secretary re church activities (1949-1957) - Repairs and Sunday School (02.03.1949)

D4-099: Centenary Services Programme for Saltaire Congregational Church April 1957

Centenary Services Programme for Saltaire Congregational Church April 1957

C3a-184a: School leaving certificate

Copy of a school leaving 'Total Exemption Labour Certificate (20th March 1916) for Mary Ann Wood (1903-1984)

2019.53.1: Staff Register

Staff register from Salt School (girls). 1 of 2 school registers rescued from a skip.

Exhibition Building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

The Exhibition Building opened in 1887, built by Titus Salt Junior, Sir Titus’s youngest son, in memory of his father. The building costs were supposed to be covered by the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee held in Saltaire in 1887, but this failed to raise the required sum. The Exhibition Building was built to house the School of Art and Science. This quickly became Shipley Technical School (incorporating the School of Art). These schools eventually went on to become Shipley College, a further education college and important institution in Saltaire today which occupies several of the original buildings. The Saltaire Collection is housed inside the Exhibition Building and can be visited by appointment.

2025.68.118: Victoria Hall view from Lower School Street

Victoria Hall view from Lower School Street

2025.68.24: Victoria Road (at Lower School Street)

Victoria Road (at Lower School Street)

2025.68.48: School field trip

School field trip

Fry, William

William Fry started working life on the railways but his life was transformed in his thirties when he moved to Saltaire to become the long-serving Secretary and General Manager of the Salt Schools. The 'Salt Schools eventually incorporated the High School (for Girls and Boys), the Saltaire Club and Institute, and the Technical and Art School In the late 1880s a new School of Art and Science was instigated by Titus Salt Junior. To help fund the new school and partly celebrate its opening, and Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, Salt devised the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition. William Fry became heavily involved in its planning, travelling round the country to visit other exhibitions at Edinburgh, Folkestone and Liverpool as well as the Colonial Exhibition in London. He wrote numerous letters to obtain exhibits and enlist support for the Exhibition. This was a difficult task because of competition with other exhibitions and attractions. William wrote that ‘obscurity, too small an affair’ were ‘prominent ideas to be combated’. William also became Secretary of the Sir Titus Salt's Hospital, likely after the management ot the hospital was passed to the Salts School Board in 1887.

2018.45.3: Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, student book, Spinning

The book is a student work book, which has been beautifully written in Copper plate writing. It has been used to record the lesson on Spinning, detailing the process with images, that the student learnt at Shipley Technical School, which later became Shipley College. Many students at the college went to work in the Mill and then attended classes in the evening.

C3b-424a: The Story of the Salts Girls School for Fifty Years (1876-1926): Reminiscences of Harriet Byles. Head MIstress 1886-1920

A copy from the Saltaire Resource Base of Harriet Byles's reminiscences of working at the Salt High School fo Girls from the 1870s until retitement in 1920. Byles started as a teacher when the first headmistress was Medina Griffiths. Byles became the second headmistress in 1886 and continued a programme of progressive, wide education for her students.