Items

• B1-355-15: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files. Messrs Salt (Saltaire) Ltd. Harden Mills

  Folder from Central Land Board relating Harden Mills
• B1-355-40: Claim Form for Central Land Board relating to Saltaire Mills

  Claim Form for Central Land Board relating to Saltaire Mills
• 2024.32: Sir Titus Salt: The founder of Saltaire and its Mills

  A brief history of the life of Sir Titus Salt and his founding of Saltaire. Includes some discussion of Salt's motivations for building the village and Mill, and the proivision of amenities for the workers and residents.
• 2024.35: Small section of lead gas piping for lighting

  A small section of lead piping used for the supply of gas in a house in Saltaire. Pipe was found during redecoration of a first-floor rear bedroom in the 2020s. The lower end of the pipe was embedded in original lime plaster and connected to what may have been a wall mounting for a gas mantle. The lack of disturbance to the plasterwork, where the pipe joined the wall, suggests that the pipe was installed during construction of the house. This section of pipe provides direct evidence to corroborate contemporary newspaper reports that gas lighting was provided in Saltaire housing at the time of construction.
• 2024.99: Research papers on Iwakura mission visit to Saltaire in 1872

  Set of unbound, copied research papers on the 1872 Iwakura (Japanese) Mission visit to Britain (mostly assessing Victorian London, Parliamentary Process and British Education)
• 2018.55: Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Co Limited

  Promotional booklet for the Salt company. Booklet is similar to others from the same time but has text in French. Contains photographs of processes in the mill. Has two pages of introductory text.
• 2018.9.1.1.1.2: Letter to Catherine Salt from Isabel Salt in Germany

  Correspondence sent to Isabel's mother Catherine Salt. A letter from Isabel Salt, to Catherine Salt at Milner Field. In envelope postmarked Berlin [1895]. Written on a train travelling from Dresden. Includes account of her time spent in Dresden with friends.
• 2018.9.1.1.1.3: Letter to Catherine Salt from Isabel Salt in Harrogate

  Correspondence sent to Isabel's mother Catherine Salt. Letter to 'Dear Mother', The Old Rectory, Boston Spa, from Isabel, 20 Spring Grove, Harrogate. Pre-1930. - letter, envelope and transcription
• 2024.41: Milner Field - the lost country house of Titus Salt jnr

  Paperback book by Lee-Van den Daele, Richard and Beale, R. David. Illustrated history of Milner Field, a mansion near to Saltaire built for Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine. The house was later owned by Sir James Roberts. It has a rather infamous history for a series of tragedies assocatied with it, including the death of Titus Salt Junior at a young age.
• 2024.43: On Tenterhooks

  Paperback book with full title 'On Tenterhooks - a compendium of textile words, terms and expressions'. Compiled by Eugene Nicholson. A glosary of words, terms and expressions used in the British textile undustry.
• 2024.44: Textiles

  Hadback book by Hugh Bodey. A history of making textiles from ancient times until the twentieth century.
• 2024.48: Bradford

  Hardback book by Joseph Fieldhouse. A history of Bradford.
• 2024.56.1: A weaver loads a pirn of weft thread into a shuttle, 1940s

  Picture of a room in a mill containing several machines. A woman is stood at a machine loading a shuttle.
• 2024.56.10: The second Midland station at Forster Square during the late nineteenth century

  Photograph shows the fron the Midland Railway station at Forster Square in Bradford. Several horse drawn carriages are visible in front of the building, A connected building has a sign 'Refreshment rooms'
• 2024.56.11: The transport fleet of Lister and Company at the rear of Manningham Mills

  Photographs shows aline of vehicles parked in front of Manningham Mills (also known as Lister's Mill). a large textile mill in Bradford. Four of the vehicles are early internal cumbustion engine small trucks,. Three are steam powered trucks.
• 2024.56.12: An Italian 'Tingelary' man in Little Germany

  Photograph shows a street performer stood behind a hand-drawn cart in Peckover Street in the Little Germany area of Bradford. Three monkeys are visible on the cart. Two are wearing clothes and are holding a tambourine and a cymbal.
• 2024.56.2: Tram setting off for Saltaire from forster square

  Picture of Forster square in Bradford. A tram is setting off for Saltaire within a busy street scene
• 2024.56.3: The Royal Standard public house and the Theatre Royal, Manningham Lane, early 1930's

  Roadside view of the Royal Standard and Theatre Royal in the Manningham area of Bradford
• 2024.56.4: Trolley bus at the Midland Street depot

  Photograph of an early trolley bus, number 240, with a destination notice of 'Laisterdyke Dudley Hill. The bus is in the centre of the image. The front of the Midland Street depot in Bradford is on the right. Some houses are partly visible in teh background.
• 2024.56.5: Lister's Mill and its housing for its workers, from Lilycroft Road 1920s

  Photograph shows a wide street (Lilycroft Road) running in front of terraced houses on the left. Behind the houses, furhter down the road, can be seen Lister's Mill, a very large textile mill built in the late nineteenth century by Samuel Cunliffe Lister. A horse and cart and some children are visible on the road on the right of the image.,