Items

• 2025.70: Textile Voices - Mill Life This Century

  Book edited by Olive Howarth and published by Bradford Heritage Recording Unit 1989. Project Co-Ordination and Picture research by Tim Smith. The book includes life story interviews with members of the textile community together with photographs from family albums or by press and commercial photographers. The book charts the history of the textile industry, providing thought-provoking and surprising views from the textile workers themselves. Photographs of Saltaire are featured on pages 25,40,48 & 49
• 2025.72: Victorian Bradford

  Victorian Bradford - essays in honour of Jack Reynolds edited by DG Wright and JA Jowitt. The contributors to this book all had connections to Jack Reynolds and write about the development of an important industrial city in the nineteenth century. There are many references to Sir Titus Salt and Saltaire and extensive notes are provided throughout.
• 2025.73: The Great Paternalist Titus Salt & the Growth of Nineteenth Century Bradford

  Book by Jack Reynolds. A study of industrialisation and of its human effects and of the impact of one great entrepreneur - Titus salt
• 2025.74: Wool City

  A history of the Bradford Textile Industry in the twentieth Century. Includes many references to Saltaire
• 2025.75: The Future of Salts Mill

  A Feasibility Study by management consultants KMG Thomson McLintock commissioned by City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. The study was commissioned to review the future of the Salts Mill site in 1987. It is a comprehensive study and proposals for redevelopment of the mill. It precedes the purchase of Sats Mill by Jonathan SIlver later in 1987. See also 2025.76 which is the associated appendices to this report.
• 2025.76: The Future of Salts Mill - Appendices

  Appendices to the main Report by management consultants KMG Thomson McLintock commissioned by City of Bradford Metropolitan Council. The study was commissioned to review the future of the Salts Mill site in 1987. The main report is available as 2025.75. This booklet contains several appendices including terms of reference, potential sources of funding, and costings.
• 2025.81: Photographs of Shipley Glen

  Black-and-white and sepia photographs of Shipley Glen
• 2025.85: Annie the story of a Victorian Mill Girl

  Book by Margaret Nash and illustrated by Kay Dixey. Part of the Historical Storybooks series for Key Stage 2 children focusing on Titus Salt and Salts Mill. The book contains black and white and coloured illustrations
• 2025.87: A Penny For Going

  A Penny For Going by Roger Clarke. The book is a history of Saltaire and its regeneration told through its shops and shop keepers. The book is signed by the author.
• 2025.88: Sponsored Street Signs Go Down Well With Village

  Telegraph and Argus news cutting undated. A coloured picture of Albert Bowtell is included. The article refers to a campaign to replace modern street signs in Saltaire with Victorian looking ones. People were able to sponsor a Victorian sign for seventy five pounds and then received a replica sign of their choice. Albert chose 'Albert Road'
• 2025.89: Salts Saltaire biro pens

  Black and white replica biro pens with Salts Saltaire logo and an alpaca on the side
• 2025.91: Pepper Lee, Saltaire Factory Fire Photographs

  Pepper Lee, Saltaire Factory Fire Photographs. 6 coloured photographs showing a fire at Pepper Lee (New Mill) Saltaire Village 1. Coloured photograph of New Mill taken from the canal side Victoria Road showing New Mill chimney with a fire in one of the top windows. Possibly 1980s. 2. Coloured photograph of New Mill taken from the canal side Victoria Road showing New Mill chimney with the fire in one of the top windows more pronounced. Possibly 1980s. 3. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill window showing two firemen on the canal side trying to extinguish the fire. 4. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing the fire extinguished but with more smoke. 5.Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing the fire extinguished but with even more smoke in front of the mill chimney. 6. Coloured photograph taken from Salts Mill showing that the fire has been extiguished and something being thrown from the window
• 2025.92: Remember when... a hospital was here

  Telegraph and Argus black and white newspaper article dated July 4th 2002 showing Saltaire Hospital in 1968 when Victoria Road still had its railings
• 2025.93: Remember when... 1939 fire brigade went on parade

  Telegraph and Argus black and white newspaper article dated July 11th 2002 showing Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Fire Brigade in 1939. The lorry behind them seems to be carrying nurses.
• 2025.94: 53 years with textile firm

  53 years with textile firm. Telegraph and Argus black and white newspaper article dated Oct 1st 1971. The article focuses on Mr Albert Brown of Albert Road Saltaire who retired after 53 years with Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. He started at the mill aged 12 and started full time there aged 13.
• 2025.95: Memories of the Music Halls

  Telegraph and Argus black and white newspaper article undated. The article focuses on a letter written by Roger W. Suddards referring to a previous newspaper article about the song 'Meet Me Gwen on Shipley Glen'.
• 2025.96: Christmas Card of Salts Mill and Saltaire

  Christmas card from Salts (Saltaire) showing a coloured print of Salts Mill and Saltaire approx. 1850s
• 2025.97: Long service certificate presented to Albert Bowtell 1985

  Coloured long service certificate presented to Albert Bowtell in 1985. The certificate is in recognition of 28 years service at Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Some of the images on the certificate are personal to Albert and have been hand drawn and coloured.
• 2025.98: Handwritten thank you letter from Albert Bowtell

  Handwritten thank you letter from Albert Bowtell dated 5th July 1985. A thank you letter to friends and colleagues at Saltaire Mills from Albert Bowtell for his retirement gifts
• A1-037: The Great Yorshire Llama

  Copiy of a reprint of 'The Great Yorkshire Llama' by Charles Dickens. The reprint is from Household Words Voume 6, o 140 published on Saturday November 27th 1952. The article tells a story of how Titus Salt allegedley discovered surplus alpaca wool in 1836 and started experimenting with it to produce cloth. This led to a very successful textile business and, as the article was being written, the construction of a large new mill in what was to become Saltaire.