Items

• 2024.56.6: Little Horton Lane

  Photograph of a large crowd of people completely filling a square on Little Horton Lane in Bradford on 4 May 1904 during a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Bunting is hung at the sides of the streets. One building has a sign 'Appleton & Co.'. People are also visible in windows and on the roofs of buildings.
• 2024.56.7: Shop on the corner of Ivegate and Kirkgate, circa 1860

  Photograph of a large, double-fronted building consisting of two shops at the corner of two streets in Bradford. A large sign 'T. Hunter' appears over the left-hand shop. A second sign 'Blackburn' appears above the shop on the right. The second shop has smaller signs 'Chemist and druggist' and 'Patent & proprietary medicines'.
• 2024.56.8: Trolley bus overtaking a horse-drawn cart, Laisterdyke, 1914

  Photograph shows a wide road with an early trolley bus on the left overtaking a horse-drawn cart laden with 4 large bales. A row of shops is visible on teh left. Both sides of teh streets are lined with people looking at the camera.
• 2024.56.9: Works outing aboard a charabanc, 1920

  Photograph shows an open top small bus full of seated people on several rows. People appear to be well-dressed. The driver in a hat is stood at the front of the vehicle.
• 2024.58: The Salt Saga volume 1

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, the mill and Sir Titus Salt, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.59: The Salt Saga volume 2

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.60: The Salt Saga volume 3

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.61: Scipeleia and all that

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Shipley (Scipleia is an Old English spelling of Shipley) compiled in 1971.
• 2024.62: Saltaire - An album of postcards and prints

  Red album with black pages containing 104 postcards and prints of images of Saltaire
• 2024.67: The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990 Site name Hirst Wood.

  The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990. Site name Hirst Wood A4 photocopied typewritten documents and maps, one with 8 pages and the other has 7 pages with 2 extra maps and information about Ogden Water
• 2024.68: Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen

  Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen. 13 pages of A4 photocopied typewritten pages and maps
• 2024.71: Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 by Colum Giles & Ian H Goodall

  An illustrated paperback book subtitled The Buildings of the Yorkshire Textile Industry. Provides a history of the development of mill buildings in Yorkshire between the late eitghteenth century and the 1930s. Mainly concentrates on the former West Riding of Yorkshire, the centre of the woollen textile industry in the county. Includes photographs, drawings and plans.
• 2024.72: The Garnett Story 1831-1962 by E Philip Dobson

  A hard backed book, illustrated and subtitled The History of a Yorkshire Worsted and Woollen Business Through Four Generations. Published to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Garnett-owned textile business, from its earliest foundations in the late eighteenth century up to the mid twentieth century. Contains a history of the textile business. Appendix A describes the processes of woollen and worsted manufacture in the early Victorian age. A detailed family history of the Garnett family can be found at the back of the book.
• 2024.73: The Derwent Valley Mills and their Communities

  An illustrated paperback about the bid for the Derwent Valley MIlls to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status. The book contains the hisorical sections and the bibliography and glossary of the nomnation document submitted to UNESCO. The Derwent Valley Mills were successful in their bid and became a World Heritage SIte in 2001, at the same time as New Lanark Mills in Scotland and Saltaire.
• 2024.81: Little Germany by John S Roberts

  An illustrated booklet about the local history of the Little Germany area of Bradford. City Trail No.3. As well as a trail around Little Germany there is an overview of the early textile industry in Bradford from the late eighteenth century. Includes fairly detailed discussion of development of textile warehouses fairly detailed history of the development of
• 2024.84: Dean Clough and the Crossley Inheritance

  An illustrated booklet. The story of Dean Clough Mills and the Crossley family during the 19th and 20th Century. Mentions Saltaire and Salts Mill on page 13. 2nd edition 1994
• 2024.96: Saltaire shop front design

  Saltaire shop front design. An illustrated leaflet about Saltaire shop front design. This leaflet sets out guidelines when considering proposals for shop fronts and signs
• 2024.97: Saltaire original designs and detailing

  Saltaire original designs and detailing. This illustrated leaflet looks at the original Victorian building materials and the special design features of Saltaire
• 2024.98: A Short History of the Bradford Tradesmen's Homes

  A book about the almshouses in the Lily Croft area of Bradford. Mentions the donation made by Sir Titus Salt and the official opening of the refurbished chapel by Sir Anthony Salt in 1989
• A2-070a: Salt Family Residences.

  1 reproduced photos of card enscribed: ' Ivory Bell Pushes from Milner Field March 1903 turned by Titus Salt esq. on his own lathe'