Items

• 2024.150.5: The adventures of Al and Mo (aka Alison Paca and Mo Hair)

  An A4 activity sheet featuring 7 twin boxes with a pciture of a mohair sheep (Mo) in conversation with an alpaca (Al). A children's activity for the 2015 Conversazione in Saltaire.
• 2025.51: Modern Money and Unemployment and the Law of Barter

  A book on economic history and contemporary economic problems by Isidore Ostrer. Contains Ostrer's ideas on what he sees as flaws in the modern money system. Ostrer was one of the principle directors of Illingworth, Morris Limited the owners of Salts (Saltaire) Limited which operated Salts Mill.
• D1-001a-b: Rules of the Saltaire Club and Institute

  Copies of the 'Rules of the Saltaire Club and Institute'
• 2015.1: Dayton tea pot

  Teapot, taken to Dayton as a wedding gift for Percival and Eva (nee Hanson) Johnson. Percy was involved in the financial management of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company set up by the directors of Sir Titus Salt (Bart), Sons and Co Ltd. Eva was the youngest daughter of William Hanson, the head of the engineering department at Salts Mill. The Saltaire historians Dave Shaw and David King visitied Dayton to research its history and were given the teapot to to give to Eva's great-nephew Donald Hanson, who had been the chair of Illingworth, Morris the last owners of Salts Mill as a working textiles business. Donald donated the teapot to the collection, as he considered it 'a known 19th century artefact that binds the communities of Saltaire & Dayton'.
• London, United Kingdom

  The capital city of the United Kingdom.
• Manchester, United Kingdom

  A major city in the North West of England. During the Industrial Revolution it became the main centre of cotton textile production in the United Kingdom.
• Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

  A town in Berkshire, United Kingdom.
• Salt Lake City, United States of America

  Is the capital city of the state of Utah, United States of America.
• New York, United States of America

  New York is a major city in the north east of the United States of America.
• 2022.59: Saltaire - A Sketch History

  An original copy of the 1898 version of 'Saltaire - A Sketch' with a 'Brief Description of its origin and Later Developments'. Illustrated with original photographs. This is a copy directed at the United States and is priced at 25 cents.
• Los Angeles, United States of America

  City in California, United States of America
• Queensbury, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Queensbury is a village in West Yorkshire near Bradford. It is one of the highest parishes in the United Kingdom. It was the location of Black Dyke Mills a textile factory owned by thge company John Foster & Son. The Fosters built many amenities in the villae for the benfit of its residents and their workers.
• Oxted, Surrey, United Kingdom

  Oxted is a town in Surrey, United Kingdom. It was the location of a home of Isabel Salt in her later life.
• Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom

  Cromer is a coastal town in Norfolk, United Kingdom. It became popular in the nineteenth century as a holiday destination.
• Birmingham, West Midlands, United Kingdom

  Birmingham is a major city in the West Midlands region of the United Kingdom.
• Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition site, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The main site of the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition held in 1887 in Saltaire.
• Northcliffe, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Northcliffe is an area on the south side of the Aire Valley near to Saltaire. It was a site of woods, agriculture, coal mining and stone quarrying from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, In 1919 Norman Rae, a local mill owner and MP for Shipley, donated £12,500 to the local council to purchase 114 acres of Northcliffe for use by the public. It is now a park, allotments and playing fields.
• The Knoll, Baildon, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The Knoll was a grand mansion in Baildon, near Saltaire. It was built as the home of Charles Stead, a member of the board of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Company Limited. James Roberts later acquired the house in the early twentieth century. The house was demolished in the early 1960s.
• Ossett, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Ossett is a market town near to Wakefield in West Yorkshire
• Hirst Wood, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Hirst Wood was a large estate of land on the westernmost edge of Shipley, adjacent to Saltaire.