Items

• 2018.9.2.4.3.6: Papers relating to Philanthropy

  Part of the series of letters concerning charity donations (1940-1957) - letter from Saltaire Congregational Church from Walter Morrell re thanks for the gift received (3 Jul 1957)
• 2018.9.2.4.3.7: Papers relating to Philanthropy

  Part of the series of letters concerning charity donations (1940-1957) - letter from Saltaire Congregational Church from Walter Morrell re trustee meeting (1 Oct 1957)
• 2018.9.3.5.7: notes and cuttings

  Issue of 'The City Temple Tidings', Church Council of The City Temple, XVI (85), 1938.
• 2018.9.6: possessions

  Assorted objects collected and kept by Isabel Salt. Includes: framed sketches, tin box and acorns, handbag, spectacles, party games, ammunition, champagne cork, mirror, pocket calendar and Cremation Society identity card more details below: There is no item 1. 2) Wooden hinged double picture frame. Contains two pencil sketches of a boy and girl [Isabel and Lawrence Salt]. [Late 19th century]. 3) Box. Tin previously containing acorns and accompanying card 10cm wide x 6cm high x 2.5cm deep. Yellow and blue with black lettering: 'The 'Allenburys' Glycerine and Blackcurrant Pastilles. Made from the fresh ripe fruit. Manufactured by Allen & Hanburys Ltd London'. Late 19th or early 20th century. 4) Box. 20cm radius x 8cm deep. Covered in floral fabric. (Faded to brown but original colours on red ground visible under lid). Label on bottom: 'Pomme d'Or Harrogate'. Late 19th or early-mid 20th century. 5) Luggage tag. 12cm wide x 7.5 cm high. Brown leather with embossed S. Strap with buckle. Late 19th or early-mid 20th century. 6) Two hair curling tongs, with case labelled 'Salt. OXTED. Surrey'. Early-mid 20th century. 7) Spectacles and case. Animal skin case, 14cm wide x 6cm high x 2cm deep. Round spectacles with translucent orange frames. Chamois glasses cleaning cloth. 'Norman J. Fordham. 5 Station Approach, Oxted'. Early-mid 20th century. 8) 'Valentine's Party Games. The Shepherd's Garden.' Cardboard box, slightly damaged, 16cm high x 11cm wide, containing 8 cards. Box and cards with coloured picture of shepherd presenting floral wreath to shepherdess. Inside of card contains riddling poem with missing words. Separate sheet listing answers to riddles. Made by Valentine and Sons, Dundee and London. Also contains two handwritten cards 11cm high x 9cm wide with instructions to games, 'Find Me!' and 'Hide and Seek' with blank paper folded round them. Back of cards contain printed advertisement for 'White Elephant' stall for Oxted and Limpsfield Congregational Church. C1915. 9) Twelve acorns and card giving provenance. Previously in 'Allenburys' tin box. Mauve card, 6cm high x 9cm wide, reads: 'These were picked up by ? in the grounds of the Palace of Doorn (Holland) where the Ex Kaiser was living'. (Doorn crossed through. ?illegible written above). Reverse of card printed: 'In Aid of the Harrogate Infirmary Building Fund. Pageant of English Literature by the Girls of the Harrogate College. Saturday, July 23rd, at 8.15 pm. Admission 5s.'. Autumn 1918. 10) Ammunition. Labelled as shrapnel / shell. Card 11 cm high x 9cm wide. 'Oxted Trophies 1940-4', listing 5 labelled items. Original card: 'Lady Benn, At Home'. C1942. 11) Champagne cork. Cork, metal top. 4cm high x 2cm wide x 2cm deep. Veuve Pommery. 1943. 12-16) Handbag. 28cm wide x 21cm high x 3cm deep. Curved wooden handle with wooden clasp. Tapestry fabric. Lined interior with pocket. With four accompanying items: Pair of spectacles (broken). Possibly tortoiseshell frames. Metal arms. Mirror. 8cm long x 6cm wide. Tarnished. Cremation Society membership identity card, belonging to Isabel Salt, Springwood, Oxted, Surrey [1939]. Pocket calendar, 1948. Booklet 6cm high x 4cm wide. Picture of flowers on cover.
• C4a-013.4: The Saltaire Journal Vol.1 No.4 March 2010 The Whitlam Family?....Who are they?

  Includes snippet about Saltaire Park and Sir James Roberts. Includes a book review of The Buildings of England : Yorkshire West Riding : Leeds, Bradford and the North by Leach and Pevsner and a CD review of Shipley St Pauls Church which mentions burials of Saltaire residents
• Milner, Doris

  Doris was born in Saltaire, around 1912. Her family lived in Constance Street and she attended Albert Road School. Doris married a man who farmed at the site now occupied by Buttershaw School. Doris's father and grandfather both worked in Salts Mill. Doris had a great love for Saltaire and still kept her interest in the area until she died in 2006. Doris kindly donated a collection of 6 books she had received as prizes from the Saltaire Congregational Church for attending Sunday School.
• Hodson, Thomas

  Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson was born in Shipley and was a warehouseman at The Conditioning House in Bradford prior to enlistment in the army during the First World War. Hodson’s Division landed in Le Harve, France in August 1915. They served in front line trenches and several battles, including the Battle of the Somme where Hodson was killed in action on the 29th July 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme and on the Rolls of Honour at Nabs Wood cemetery in Shipley, St Paul’s, and St Peter’s Church in Shipley. Lance Corporal Hodson was born in 1892, son of Tom and Rosa Hodson. His service number was 13083. His medals and memorabilia from World War 1 are The ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ medals (the popular names for The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively) and a ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ which was issued to next of kin of all British and Empire service personnel killed as a result of the war. In addition, a Princess Mary Gift Fund 1914 box was a present for all those serving during Christmas 1914, the box contents included cigarettes and/or chocolate, a photo of Princess Mary and a signed card. These and other items relating to Lance Corporal Hodson are in the Saltaire Collection. In 2017, the Saltaire Collection received a donation of World War One medals belonging to Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson that were found in the cellar of a house in Saltaire. Through local news items and the help of a local historian we were able to trace his relatives who were than reunited with these medals. The family generously decided to leave these in the collection.
• Morrell, George

  George arrived in Saltaire in 1860 to be an assistant teacher in the Factory School that provided part-time education for some of the children working in Salts Mill. By the early 1870s he was the headmaster, later moving to be head of the nearby Shipley Central School. George was a member of the Saltaire Congregational Church and long-serving Superintendent of its magnificent Sunday School. A life-long teetotaller, George promoted responsible drinking and was one of the founders of the Shipley Temperance Union in 1892, becoming President in 1902. He finally retired after 45 years of service. He was obviously fondly thought of and well respected. A magnificent illuminated presentation book was given to him on retirement, paid for by public subscription and to which Sir James Roberts and many eminent past-students contributed.
• D2-005: Leisure - Sports & Social Clubs

  Handbell ringers Saltaire Congregational church
• Bath and Wash House, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Titus Salt built the Bath and Wash houses in 1863 at a cost of £7000 (over £600,000 today). These housed 24 baths, 12 each for men and women and a Turkish bath. A warm bath would cost 6d. and a cold one 3d. The wash house contained everything people would need to wash and dry their clothes: 48 washing, rinsing and steam tubs, 48 drying closets, a steam dryer and mangles, meaning clothes could be cleaned and dried in under 1 hour. As in the rest of the North of England, the Bath and Wash Houses did not prove popular. People preferred to bathe in the privacy of their own homes and wash clothes in their own kitchen where they could also complete other tasks. The buildings were converted into houses in the late 1800s before being completely demolished in 1936. Today, a community garden has been planted on the site, following consultation with residents in 2011.
• 2022.51: The history of Pace

  The story of Pace Microtechnology from its foundation in the early 1980s to its acqusition by Arris in the 2010s. Based on original research by Mike Farren, including extensive interviews with the founders David Hood and Barry Rubery and key manager Rob Fleming.
• 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 Bradord. 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.
• Stables building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Originally the stables for Salts Mill. Now converted to residences.
• Shipley Glen, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A green space of woods and open moorland on the valley side to the North of Saltaire. In the later nineteenth century it became the site of pleasure grounds including a toboggan run, switchback roller coaster and other amusements. It was very popular with the residents of nearby Saltaire, Shipley and Baildon as a place of recreation.
• 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.
• Boathouse, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The original boathouse was built in 1871. It was eventually converted to a pub. By the turn of the twenty first century the building was derelict. It was taken over, renovated and reopened as the Boathouse Inn. Unlike many buildings in Saltaire, the boathouse is unlisted due to extensive refurbishment and changes to the structure of the building. Nevertheless, it remains an important location in the village for recreation and tourism.
• Sir Titus Salt's Hospital building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Titus Salt built an infirmary in Saltaire to care for the village residents. It had enough wards and beds for 27 patients, a dispensary and a surgery for treating workers injured in Salts Mill. The hospital was taken over by the NHS in 1948. It was sold in 1974 and became a private nursing home. It has since been converted to private residences.
• Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Crow Nest was a large house in its own grounds originally buitl in 1775 by the prominent Walker family. It bercame a favourite home of Sir Titus Salt. He first rented it between 1844 and 1858 (during the time Saltaire was starting to be built). Salt eventually bought it from the Walkers in 1867 and live there until his death in 1876.
• Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Saltaire is an area on the Western edge of Shipley in West Yorkshire. The village was created from the 1850s onwards by Bradford industrialist Titus Salt as a location for a new textile mill and homes and amenities for its workers. The village had many public buildings and amenities including: shops, schools, a dining hall, a Club and Institute, and a public park with sporting areas. Most of the village remains intact today. In 2001 Saltaire became a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Cross Roads was originally a small village situated between Keighley and Haworth. It was the site of a textile mill operated by Salts (Saltaire) Limited.