Items

• 2021.16: Railway Byways in Yorkshire

  Railway Byways in Yorkshire by R,.N. Redman. Containing information on Shipley Glen Tramway
• 2021.4.1.2: Collection of deeds

  Copy of deed - An agreement for the letting of a farm between the Countess of Rosse and John Mortimer Jowett - 3/1/1878
• 2021.7: Shipley and Windhill by Dr. Gary Firth

  Card-backed book: Shipley and Windhill by Dr. Gary Firth. Contains text and photographs on the history of Shipley and Windhill
• 2021.8: Salt & Saltaire by W.E. Alderson

  Book - Salt & Saltaire by William Edward Alderson containing text and mainly modern coloured photographs of Saltaire. Information on Dr Alderson in the Foreward.
• 2022.2: Saltaire And Its Founder by Abraham Holroyd

  An account of Titus Salt and the founding of Saltaire
• A1-036: The Great Yorkshire Llama

  Facsimile copy of 'Household Words' (Nov. 27th 1852) with an article entitled 'The Great Yorkshire Llama'. Household Words was a weekly magazine edited by Charles Dickens. 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. See also https://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-vi/page-250.html
• A1-126a: The Dayton Coal & Iron Company Limited (Rhea Co; Tenn; U.S.A.) Certificate of Shares

  Titus Salts Jnr. Share certificate in The Dayton Coal & Iron Company Ltd purchased in 1884. The certificate is sealed with a large red seal decorated with a castle. The certificate includes Salts Alpaca logo within the decoration on the left hand side.
• A2-003a-c: Plan of Milner Field House

  A plan of Milner Field House (the mariied home of TItus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt) by William. Illingworth - Architect & Surveyor. Scale is 15 feet to one inch for the ground floor plan, which occupies most of the page. There is a smaller scale plan of the first floor in the upper left of the page.
• A2-006/1: written quote

  Copy of a hand written quote from Wormesley and Co of St James Street, Leeds 'Public Decorators and Bazaar Contractors providers of temporary room and marquees for balls, weddings, royal visits and coming of age festivities'. The quote is made out to Mrs Salt and is dated August 10th 1895. The quote is for fixing and laying a raised oak and walnut parquet floor in the drawing room and library and for the erection of a 60ft by 30ft ballroom with a polished parquet floor lined with amber and cream drapery, to supply seating and to cart goods to and from Bingley station.
• A2-011: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field

  Poem written about Milner Field and the surrounding landscape by George Lister. George and Edna Lister lived at Lodge House Milner Field during the 1950s and the poem was shared with the archive by David Nutton.
• A2-055a-b: Mortgage for Milner Field

  One Transfer agreement and a second official duplicate copy of the Agreement for the purchase of Milner Field Estate with the furniture * and Declaration of the interests of the purchasers, dated 20th December 1888. Between Catherine Salt with Messrs Henry Crossley and Gordon Locksley Salt. The document is signed and sealed by both parties.
• A2-057: Contract relating to the Sale of Milner Field Estate

  Preliminary agreement of the sale of Milner Field Estate from Mrs Catherine Salt to James Roberts, this lays out the full agreement of sale and includes a schedule of items not to be included in the sale.
• A2-058a: Sale catalogue for Milner Field

  Original Sale catalogue for Milner Field. On the Frontispiece it states 'Milner Field Estate, Saltaire, Yorkshire. Plans, Particulars & Conditions of Sale of the above estate comprising Freehold Residential Mansion and Grounds, farms, woodlands, building site &c containing approximately three hundred acres. Will be offered for sale by Public Auction at the Grate Northern Victoria Hotel, Bridge Street Bradford on Thursday, 12th October 1922 at 3.30pm by A Gadie & Son Auctioneers and Valuers... Bradford. Surveyor: Wm. Illingworth ... Bradford. Solicitor Gaunt Foster & Co ... Bradford. The brochure includes particulars of sale and photographs of the house and grounds (not the farm) with a plan of the house as it was in 1922.
• A2-099: Salt Family Residences: Milner Field

  Photocopy of cutting re. objection to building houses at Milner Field ( Telegraph & Argus 4th Jan. 1996)
• B1-061/9: Salts Mill

  Telegraph & Argus news cutting : picture of C.H.Wood's aerial view of Saltaire
• B1-082a,c: Salts (Saltaire) Ltd marketing booklet

  An advertising booklet for Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. Contains text briefly describing the history of the business, but mainly concerning the workings of Salts Mill and the new mill at Uddingston, Scotland at the time of publication. Contains many photographs of mill machinery being used to produce textiles. Also includes photographs of amenities provided by the business including: a hostel for women workers; a clinic; leisure sports facilities in nearby sports grounds and Roberts Park. There is some coverage at the end of the booklet of the new factory at Uddingston.
• B1-087.2: Fowler Textile Calculator instruction book

  Instruction manual for a Fowler Textile Calculator (see B1-087.1).
• B1-087.3: Fowler Textile Calculator instructions

  Instructions for the use of the Fowler Textile Calculator' (photograph-copied booklet).
• B1-112: Alpaca designs

  Two sheets of paper with small prints of Alpaca designs. One of the sheets has a hanwdriting suggesting some type of selection procecess. See also B1-547 which are the actual stamps used to make the imprints.
• B1-135: Towering Visionary

  An article in 'Bradford's Best 100' Telegraph & Argus Supplement