Saltaire Collection

Items

• C2b-006b-c: Saltaire Village; Images (People)

  2 laminated copies of parts of plans for proposed tramway tracks in Saltaire
• C2b-300b: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  1 card-mounted copy of the partially constructed tram shed in Exhibition Road, for the Mid-Yorkshire Tramway Company - Showing man leaning on post
• C2b-301b: Saltaire village Images (Places)

  1 Photocopy of a partially constructed tram shed in Exhibition Road, for the Mid-Yorkshire Tramway Company, with large group of men
• F1b-021a-b: Miscellaneous Images

  1 photocopy & 1 laminated copy of a coloured photograph of Shipley Glen tramway, showing the trams going up and down the line
• D3-112: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Laminated copy of Aire Valley Target article 'Historical Tramway is Top for Tourists' (13th May 1999)
• D3-115: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Newscutting 'Ticket prices frozen at Tramway' Airevalley Advertiser 11th Jan 2013
• D3-130: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Copy of a postcard showing people on the Glen Tramway c.1950s
• D3-050: Sam Wilson

  Collection of hand-written notes on the life of Sam Wilson of the Shipley Glen Tramway
• D3-107: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Photocopy of postcards of Switchback, Tramway & Airedale Harriers
• 2026.2: A history of the New Mill Estate, Saltaire

  A 71 page document with notes, photographs and some excerpts from plans and maps all relating to New Mill. part of the Salts Mill complex. The document covers the history of the site fom the seventeenth century to the early twenty first centiury, including: - Dixon Mill, a corn and fulling mill built in 1635, occupied the site where New Mill was later constructed.? - As part of the building of the original Salts Mill, a gas works on teh same site was proposed in 1852, serving both the mill and the village. - The Mill was expanded in 1868 by builkding New Mill, with a notable campanile chimney. - The estate experienced significant events such as a major fire in 1881 and a breach in the weir in 1884, causing mill shutdowns. - ?By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the estate saw further extensions, infrastructure improvements, and the introduction of electric power. - In the mid-1990s, the estate was repurposed for offices and apartments, with remnants of its industrial past still visible today.