Items

• F1a-205: Official Visitors Guide to Bradford District

  'Official Visitors Guide to Bradford District' (2004). This is a full guide for visitors to the area, it includes an attraction or places to visit guide with accommodation and events in the year including Saltaire. This style of booklet very common and widely used before the internet took over. Tourist information would find accommodation for visitors, this was done for a fee but with the rise of the internet this is no longer viable.
• F1a-206: Official Visitors Guide to Bradford District

  'Official Visitors Guide to Bradford District' (2008). This is a full guide for visitors to the area, it includes an attraction or places to visit guide with accommodation and events in the year including Saltaire. This booklet includes maps for each area with larger maps for sale at the back of the book. This style of booklet was very common and widely used before the internet took over. Tourist information would find accommodation for visitors, this was done for a fee but with the rise of the internet this is no longer viable.
• F1a-208: Conference Guide to Bradford and District

  'Conference Guide to Bradford and District (2001). This guide focuses on hotels and what the area has to offer the conference guest for example shopping.
• F1a-209: Miscellaneous Documents

  3 laminated copies of items on housing in 19th century Bradford
• F1a-211: Bradford Cycling Map

  A copy of a 'Bradford Cycling Map' produced by Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The map is suggested cycle routes and places to visit in Bradford by bicyle, including Saltaire
• F1a-220: Ann Moss: Saltaire Poet

  A book by local historian Roger Clarke on Ann Moss, a deaf single mother who made her living from writing poetry in the nineteenth century. Titus Salt was a fan.
• F1a-227: Low Moor Iron Works

  Drawing by W.Baily Lang of Low Moor Iron Works in Bradford
• F1a-231a-b: Newlands Mill disaster

  2 laminated boards on Newlands Mill disaster 1882
• F1a-233: Miscellaneous Documents

  Booklet: 'Worstedopolis' by W.Cudworth (1882) (Re-print by The Old Bradford Press)
• F1a-266: Parsonage Key is handed over

  Telegraph & Argus Newspaper cutting 'Parsonage Key is handed over' James Aykroyd & Bronte Parsonage. The Parsonage was bought for the Bronte Socirty by Sir James Roberts.
• F1a-270: Shipley : A Look at the Past

  Slim booklet containing photographs of old Shipley from nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and accompanying short descriptions.
• F1a-272: Shipley and District Cricket League Handbook

  Booklet: 'Shipley and District Cricket League Handbook - 1939 Season'
• F1a-300: Union Mill, Shipley

  Spiral-bound booklet: 'Union Mill, Shipley' Shipley & District Local History Society
• F1a-301: Parkinsons of Shipley

  Spiral-bound booklet: 'Parkinsons of Shipley' Shipley & District Local History Society. J W Parkinson and Son (Shipley) Limited was an engineering firm well known for manufacturing mill machinery.
• F1a-302a: Retrospect; J. Parkinson & Son

  Spiral-bound booklet: 'Retrospect; J. Parkinson & Son'
• F1a-303: Production in the works of J. Parkinson & Son

  Spiral-bound booklet: 'Production in the works of J. Parkinson & Son, Shipley'
• F1a-360: Miss Alice Ince

  Newspaper cutting on Miss Alice Ince - Saltaire Librarian
• F1a-370: Jim Laker 19-90

  A book about a former student of Salts High School around 1933 to 1937 by by Brian Scovel. Laker won a scholorship to Salts School, his mother was a teacher. He was a regular player on the school cricket team and played for Saltaire Cricket Club, based in Roberts Park, for three seasons in the late 1930s. He left school in 1939 and in 1941 joined the Royal Army Ordnance Corps, and was posted in Egypt. While there he set up a cricket team. Once he returned from the war, he was unable to join the Yorkshire team so played for Surrey and represented England. At Old Trafford in 1956 during the Ashes Test match with Australia he famously took 19 wickets out of 20 (Tony Lock who played for Surry took the other) enabling England to win the Ashes. It is known as the Laker Test match, and is still a record for most wickets taken by one bowler in a first cass cricket match.
• F1a-371: Notes on Joseph Wright

  Folder booklet: 'Joseph Wright 1855-1930' A collection of notes and photgraphs
• F1a-374: Joseph Wright

  Photograph of Joseph Wright in Thackley (A4)