Items

• E2-134a: Poster for opening of School of Art in Saltaire

  Posters for Shipley Education Committee 'Re-Opening of the School of Art 1920-21 in Saltaire
• F1a-002a-b: The Earl of Rosse's Heaton & Shipley Estates, Bradford Yorkshire.

  Bound volume (damaged) of 'Particulars of Sale of the Earl of Rosse's Heaton and Shipley Estates (includes loose maps and plans) of the individual parts of the estate that are for sale. Plus photocopy of the book.
• F1a-014: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture: Henry Francis Lockwood

  Extract from a book by Derek Linstrum on West Yorkshire architects, featuring an item on Henry Francis Lockwood. Along with WIlliam Mawson, Lockwood was one of the chief architects who designed the village of Saltaire, its houses and public buildings.
• F1a-050a-b: Abraham Holroyd's gravestone

  2 copies of photograph of Abraham Holroyd's gravestone in Clayton cemetery. Holroyd wrote a history 'Saltaire and its Founder' in 1873 that was contemporary with the building of Saltaire.
• F1a-093: Gladys Shuttleworth Collection - Norman Rae & Northcliffe Shipley, Miscellaneous Documents.

  Information about Gladys Shuttleworth by the 'Friends of Northcliffe'. Gladys donated items related to local mill owner, Shipley M.P. and philanthropist Sir Norman Rae.
• F1a-118: Christmas card

  A Christmas card from Norman Rae thanking his supporters for their help in the recent election as MP for Shipley.
• F1a-133a: Opening of the Norman Rae Playing Fields

  Programme for the opening of the Norman Rae Playing Fields. Opened by Norman Rae June 12th 1920. Includes the Order of Proceedings
• F1a-174: Poems by John Nicholson

  Hard back book of poems by John Nicholson, The Airedale Poet, with a sketch of his life and writings. The book is inscribed on the flyleaf cover in 1918 and there is a newspaper cutting from the Yorkshire Evening Post pasted onto the inside cover. The Death notices from the Bradford Telegraph and Argus from 3rd October 1934. Nicholson died in 1843 trying to cross the river Aire near Dixons Mill (which was later demolished and replaced by the 'New Mill' part of Saltaire's Salts Mill)
• F1a-278: Bygone Bradford

  Telegraph & Argus supplement: 'Bygone Bradford' (1987)
• F1b-027: Bathing in Great Salt Lake, Saltair Beach.

  Tinted postcard from 'Saltair Beach-Great Salt Lake', USA. With handwritten not- difficult to read
• H2-049d: Street decorations for Bertram Foster Roberts' wedding

  Photographs of the street decorations in Saltaire to celebrate the wedding of Bertram Robers & Gertrude Denby, of Saltaire Park with sign 'United'
• H2-123a: Map of Milner Field and Stubbing House estates

  Plan drawn up by Dixon & Hart Surveyors Bradford of the Milner Field and Stubbing House Estates. The map shows the estate in coloured lots of red, green and yellow. There is a reference key at the top of the map which lists land owners and a table to the left which lists the contents (buildings, gardens and land) as well as occupiers on the estates. Sir Titus Salt is listed on the map as the owner of the Trench Estate and as having purchased the lot coloured in yellow from B Whitley and R Mossman
• C2b-032.1: Boathouse, Saltaire

  Photograph of the Boathouse, Saltaire, showing second bridge over river
• 2022.10: Bradford A Centenary City

  A collection of essays covering the history of Bradford in text and coloured and black and white photographs
• 2022.12: Good Houses Built of Stone by George Sheeran

  A survey of the houses and people of Leeds/Bradford 1600-1800 in text and photographs
• 2022.13: City of Bradford Metropolitan District Official Handbook

  A survey of the newly created Metropolitan District Council, which incorporated the old City of Bradford and various Urban District Councils and the Borough of Keighley
• 2022.16: Bradford Trades Council- 100 years -1872-1972

  Bradford Trades Council- 100 years -1872-1972, by Mary Ashraf
• 2022.17: Retrospect - J. Parkinson and Son

  Retrospect - J. Parkinson and Son by Ernest Parkinson - A history of the Shipley Engineering firm starting in 1893
• 2022.23: Saltaire: Hidden Histories

  The History of the Dining Hall and the Saltaire Club and Institute: 1855 to 1955 - Includes colour and black and white photographs.
• 2022.4: Bookbinding

  'The Artistic Crafts Series of Technical Handbooks : Bookbinding' by Douglas Cockerell, with text and drawings