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• Albert Road School buildings, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  As the population of Saltaire grew, the Factory School on Victoria Road (today the Salt Building) became inadequate for the number of children requiring an education. The Salt family provided land on the Western side of Albert Road for the building of a new school for primary education.The local school board opened the Albert Road Board Schools in 1878 to cater for 815 younger children. The original Factory School on Victoria Road remained in use as the High School. The building is still in use and today hosts Saltaire Primary School.
• 2024.36: Descriptive Index Catalogue of the Library of the Saltaire Club and Institute

  A full catalogue of the contents of the Library of the Saltaire Club and Institute. Has brief details in the front of the volume of the operation of the LIbrary. Most of the 1665 pages consist of an alphabetical listing of the items held in the Library.
• York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  York is city, established in ancient times, in North Yorkshire.
• Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire. It was traditionally a market town but became a centre for textile production during the industrial revolution.
• Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Thorp Arch is a village near Weherby and Leeds in West Yorkshire. It is the site of a home rented by Catherine Salt.
• Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

  Skegness is a coastal town in Lincolnshire. In the nineteenth century Skegness bercame a popular seaside holiday destination for people from West Yorkshire.
• Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Sheffield is a major city in South Yorkshire. Sheffield played a major role during the Industrial Revolution particularly for its steel-based manufacturing.
• Scarborough, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Scarborough is a seaside town on the east coast of Yorkshire. Scarborough was a traditional fishing village which became a popular seaside holiday destination during the nineteenth century, particulary for workers from West Yorkshire. Scarborough was the home of the Congregationalist minister the Reverend Robert Balgarnie, a friend of Sir Titus Salt who wrote the first biography of the Salt.
• Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom

  Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England about 30 miles from London.
• Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Oxenhope is a rural village near to Haworth and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Sir James Roberts was born in Oxenhope.
• Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  Major city in the North East of England.
• Longton, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  A town in Staffordshire near to Stoke-on-Trent. Site of noted potteries.
• Longport, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

  An area of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire. Site of noted pottery works.
• Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village near Halifax, West Yorkshire. Location of Crow Nest, a large house in its own grounds and the favourite home of Sir Titus Salt.
• Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large city in West Yorkshire, about 15 miles from Saltaire and connected to it by canal, rail and road. Leeds became a major centre for woollen textile production during the nineteenth century.
• Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Somtimes referred to simply as Hull, Kingston upon Hull is a major port city in the East Riding of Yorkshire on the East coast of England.
• Keighley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large town in West Yorkshire about 10 miles West of Bradford. Keighley was a market town that became a major centre for woollen textile production during the nineteenth century.
• Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Ilkley is a market town north of Saltaire, Shipley and Baildon in North Yorkshire. Ilkley was the location of Denton Hall, a large house in its own grounds that was the home of Catherine and Isabel Salt after they moved from Milner Field in Bingley in the early twentieth century.
• Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large town in West Yorkshire. A major centre for woollen textile production during the nineteenth century.
• Haworth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Haworth is a village near to Keighley in West Yorkshire. Haworth is most famous as being the family home of the literary Brontë sisters. Sir James Roberts, owner of Saltaire and Salts Mill in the early twentieth century, bought Haworth Parsonage and gifted it to the Brontë Society for use as museum.