Items

• 2024.56.11: The transport fleet of Lister and Company at the rear of Manningham Mills

  Photographs shows aline of vehicles parked in front of Manningham Mills (also known as Lister's Mill). a large textile mill in Bradford. Four of the vehicles are early internal cumbustion engine small trucks,. Three are steam powered trucks.
• 2024.56.12: An Italian 'Tingelary' man in Little Germany

  Photograph shows a street performer stood behind a hand-drawn cart in Peckover Street in the Little Germany area of Bradford. Three monkeys are visible on the cart. Two are wearing clothes and are holding a tambourine and a cymbal.
• 2024.56.2: Tram setting off for Saltaire from forster square

  Picture of Forster square in Bradford. A tram is setting off for Saltaire within a busy street scene
• 2024.56.3: The Royal Standard public house and the Theatre Royal, Manningham Lane, early 1930's

  Roadside view of the Royal Standard and Theatre Royal in the Manningham area of Bradford
• 2024.56.4: Trolley bus at the Midland Street depot

  Photograph of an early trolley bus, number 240, with a destination notice of 'Laisterdyke Dudley Hill. The bus is in the centre of the image. The front of the Midland Street depot in Bradford is on the right. Some houses are partly visible in teh background.
• 2024.56.5: Lister's Mill and its housing for its workers, from Lilycroft Road 1920s

  Photograph shows a wide street (Lilycroft Road) running in front of terraced houses on the left. Behind the houses, furhter down the road, can be seen Lister's Mill, a very large textile mill built in the late nineteenth century by Samuel Cunliffe Lister. A horse and cart and some children are visible on the road on the right of the image.,
• 2024.56.6: Little Horton Lane

  Photograph of a large crowd of people completely filling a square on Little Horton Lane in Bradford on 4 May 1904 during a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Bunting is hung at the sides of the streets. One building has a sign 'Appleton & Co.'. People are also visible in windows and on the roofs of buildings.
• 2024.56.7: Shop on the corner of Ivegate and Kirkgate, circa 1860

  Photograph of a large, double-fronted building consisting of two shops at the corner of two streets in Bradford. A large sign 'T. Hunter' appears over the left-hand shop. A second sign 'Blackburn' appears above the shop on the right. The second shop has smaller signs 'Chemist and druggist' and 'Patent & proprietary medicines'.
• 2024.56.8: Trolley bus overtaking a horse-drawn cart, Laisterdyke, 1914

  Photograph shows a wide road with an early trolley bus on the left overtaking a horse-drawn cart laden with 4 large bales. A row of shops is visible on teh left. Both sides of teh streets are lined with people looking at the camera.
• 2024.56.9: Works outing aboard a charabanc, 1920

  Photograph shows an open top small bus full of seated people on several rows. People appear to be well-dressed. The driver in a hat is stood at the front of the vehicle.
• 2024.58: The Salt Saga volume 1

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, the mill and Sir Titus Salt, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.59: The Salt Saga volume 2

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.60: The Salt Saga volume 3

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.61: Scipeleia and all that

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Shipley (Scipleia is an Old English spelling of Shipley) compiled in 1971.
• 2024.62: Saltaire - An album of postcards and prints

  Red album with black pages containing 104 postcards and prints of images of Saltaire
• 2024.67: The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990 Site name Hirst Wood.

  The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990. Site name Hirst Wood A4 photocopied typewritten documents and maps, one with 8 pages and the other has 7 pages with 2 extra maps and information about Ogden Water
• 2024.68: Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen

  Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen. 13 pages of A4 photocopied typewritten pages and maps
• 2024.71: Yorkshire Textile Mills 1770-1930 by Colum Giles & Ian H Goodall

  An illustrated paperback book subtitled The Buildings of the Yorkshire Textile Industry. Provides a history of the development of mill buildings in Yorkshire between the late eitghteenth century and the 1930s. Mainly concentrates on the former West Riding of Yorkshire, the centre of the woollen textile industry in the county. Includes photographs, drawings and plans.
• 2024.72: The Garnett Story 1831-1962 by E Philip Dobson

  A hard backed book, illustrated and subtitled The History of a Yorkshire Worsted and Woollen Business Through Four Generations. Published to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the Garnett-owned textile business, from its earliest foundations in the late eighteenth century up to the mid twentieth century. Contains a history of the textile business. Appendix A describes the processes of woollen and worsted manufacture in the early Victorian age. A detailed family history of the Garnett family can be found at the back of the book.
• 2024.73: The Derwent Valley Mills and their Communities

  An illustrated paperback about the bid for the Derwent Valley MIlls to be awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status. The book contains the hisorical sections and the bibliography and glossary of the nomnation document submitted to UNESCO. The Derwent Valley Mills were successful in their bid and became a World Heritage SIte in 2001, at the same time as New Lanark Mills in Scotland and Saltaire.