Saltaire Collection

Items

• H2-208.109: Baker Letters - regarding: reliability of Mr Robinson; sale of cricket field; sale of stable, fields and boat house

  Mr Robinson seems unreliable as he made out, he was acting for Mr Foster and clearly not; a man was looking at cricket field and its potential; Removal vans were at Milner Field; Mr Feather, butcher, wants to purchase his stable & fields; Man in boat house wants to purchase the boat house
• H2-208.110: Baker Letters - regarding: flagstaff at Milner Field; remaining land to be auctioned

  Flagstaff at Milner Field; Mrs Green knows what to send to London & Scotland; Remaining land to be auctioned
• H2-208.111: Baker Letters - regarding: Mr Robinson still involved; Clarence Park estate

  Flagstaff; Mr Robinson still involved in maps of estate; Clarence Park estate
• H2-208.115: Baker Letters - regarding: Plans for Mr Robinson; Clarence Park estate; Milner Field

  Plans for Mr Robinson; Visited Mr Foster to show plans for Clarence Park; Letter mentions Johnâ??s son, Harold working in Surveyors office; Mr Foster keeping Mr Garland & Mr Lavelle on at Milner Field; Robinson & leaking pipe
• H2-208.117: Baker Letters - regarding: clock at Milner Field; cost of labouring; Clarence Park and Hirst Wood House/Mill

  Clock at Milner Field; Waites & Judson worked Saturday / Sunday; Labourers usually get £3 8s a week; Spent time with Mr Foster & Mr Robinson - Clarence Park & Hirst Wood House/Mill
• H2-208.118: Baker Letters - regarding: payment for sand; sale of Hirst Mill

  On same letter as above - £10 for sand is OK; Hirst Mill offered to Glynn Thomas in past, so ask again if he wants to purchase
• H2-208.120: Baker Letters - regarding: field in Hirst Lane; Clarence Park for sale; bill for sand; greenhouses in park

  Mr Anderton re field in Hirst Lane; Clarence Park for sale to Mr Foster; Robert Foster billed for sand; Mr Badland rents greenhouses in park
• H2-208.124: Baker Letters - updates on plans, Northcliffe Woods and Saltaire Parktake over Park rent free

  Plans for Mr Normington; Donation of Northcliffe Woods by Norman Rae [name not mentioned]; Refusal of council to take over Park rent free
• H2-208.126: Baker Letters - regarding: status of Saltaire Park and offer to Bradford council

  Sir Titus Saltâ??s intention to dedicate Park to public & councilâ??s refusal to take over park rent free
• H2-208.127: Baker Letters - regarding: plans of land to Midland Railway; articles in Yorkshire Post; sale of Hirst Mill

  Plans of land to Midland Railway; Articles in Yorkshire Post; Mr Thomas asking price for Hirst Mills
• H2-208.128: Baker Letters - regarding: visit from Midland Railway

  Mr Clay representative of Midland Railway coming to Saltaire; wants Midland Railway to erect fence
• H2-208.129: Baker Letters - regarding: Met Midland engineer; workshop; Hirst Mill and cottages; sale of stables and fields; sale of land between river and canal

  Met Midland engineer; Mr Normington erected workshop; Glynn Thomas occupies Higher Hirst Mill & cottages & may buy mill; Mr Feather, butcher, wants to buy stables & fields; man who bought Clarkeâ??s greengrocer also wants land between river & canal
• H2-208.130: Baker Letters - regarding: Midland Railway Co. and siding

  Midland Railway Co. & siding
• H2-208.132: Baker Letters - regarding: payment of gardners; weed killer; pension query

  Park gardener & Milner Field Gardener paid; Mr Garland & weed killer; Mr John Monaghan of 25 Whitham Street is 82 and wants a pension to help him even though Sir James only pays pensions until age 70
• H2-208.135: Baker Letters - regarding: sale of fields; sale of boat house and land

  No offer as yet from Mr Feather or Mr Berry. Mt Sutton would like the boathouse and land.
• H2-208.140: Baker Letters - regarding: sale of the two mills and land, and boat house and land; new mill owners purchase houses

  Mr Thomas asked the price of the two mills and land. Mr Sutton asked about the boathouse and land. Mr Badland stated people felt the new firm should take the park as it was used by their tenants and workers. The firm bought 50 houses in Saltaire from Mt Thornton for £6250. Mr Willy send noticed to allotments near Masonâ??s Mill.
• H2-208.141: Baker Letters - regarding: grinding room; Midland Railway land; Saltaire Park in a bad state

  Mr Thomas had finished grinding room. Mr Knowles wants land belonging to Midland Railway. The park is in a bad state. Mr Badland thinks it would take 3 or 4 men 3 years to get it back to pre-war state. Mr & Mrs Moorby mentioned.
• H2-208.145: Baker Letters - regarding: boathouse repairs needed

  Mr Sutton of boathouse states set pot has a hole and he needs a new one.
• H2-208.148: Baker Letters - regarding: new roof on workshop; sale of land

  Normington is putting a new roof on his workshop; Land Knowles wishes to buy between railway and Normingtonâ??s building
• H2-208.149: Baker Letters - regarding: Rents for allotments and cottage tenants; death of John Baker's son

  Rents for allotments and cottage tenants at Hirst; Mr Thomas renting Hirst House for £40 a year; still waiting for plans of Hirst mill from Mr. Thomas; Baker buried his youngest son Harold last Saturday, died from pneumonia, leaves wife and 2 children and only 30