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• Llanfairfechan, Clwyd, United Kingdom

  Llanfairfechan is coastal town and seaside resort on the north coast of Wales. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited Llanfairfechan in 1954.
• Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  Cullercoats is a village on the coast of Northumberland in England. Cullercoats has a good beach and is a popular holiday and day-trip destination. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited the village in 1955.
• Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  Bourton-on-the-Water is a village in the Cotswolds area of Gloucesershire in the south west of England. Bourton-on-the-water is a popular tourist destination and was visited by students from teh Salt Grammar School in 1954.
• Derby, Derbyshire, United Kingdom

  Derby is a city in the English midlands. An ancient market town, Derby became a leading site for textile production during the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution.
• 2022.20: Bygone Bradford

  A book of black and white photographs from the commercial archive of the Bradford Telegraph and Argus newspaper. The book includes views of many events and places in Bradford and the surrounding areas. Includes the following photographs relevant to Saltaire: page 113, the statue of Sir Titus Salt in its original position outside Bradford Town Hall (it is now located in Lister Park in the outskirts of Bradford); page 115, Salts (Saltaire) LImited private fire brigade pictured with their fire engine in 1939; page 127, the Salts Silver Band in the village in 1931.
• 2022.21: Memories of Bradford: Wonderfully nostalgic images of Bradford people, places and events, 1930 to 1970.

  A book of black and white photographs mainly from the commercial archive of Wood Visual Communications, Bradford. The book includes an 'At work' section which has several images of people involved in various parts of the textiles industry.
• C3a-011g: Saltaire World Heritage Site: Management Plan leaflet

  A gate-fold printed leaflet informing people of the plan to submit Saltaire to UNESCO for consideration as a World Heritage Site and the need for a Management Plan. Includes advertising for public workshops to be held in 2000.
• 2017.2: Sir Titus Salt and sons: A farming legacy

  Recounts the interest of Sir Titus Salt and some of his sons in agriculture and farming. Includes Sir TItus's continuing interest in this area; his fourth son Herbert who became a gentleman farmer rather than going into the textile business; and TItus Salt Junior's establshment of a 'model farm' next to his grand new house at Milner Field.
• 2017.3: Bingley: A living history

  History of Bingley fom the middle nineteenth century to the early twenty first century. Has four sections: Governance including Chronological Time Lines - Change; Photographs of Bingley Town Centre Capturing the Changes; Places and People Places; Living History. Inlcudes some details on Milner Field, the home of TItus Salt Junior.
• Lancaster, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  City in northern Lancashire
• New Lanark, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom

  New Lanark was founded in 1785 as the site of a new cotton mill and housing for its workers. Under the later progressie ownership of Robert Owen the site became famous. It is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Stromness, Orkney, United Kingdom

  Stromness is the second largest town in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland. The first lifeboat station in the Orkneys was opened here in 1867. Sir Titus Salt gave money for the purchase of a 33 foot (10 metre), 10-oared wooden lifeboat.
• Austwick, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Small rural village in North Yorkshire. Location of the retirement home of Harriet Byles, the second head teacher of the Salts High School for Girls.
• Albert Road School buildings, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  As the population of Saltaire grew, the Factory School on Victoria Road (today the Salt Building) became inadequate for the number of children requiring an education. The Salt family provided land on the Western side of Albert Road for the building of a new school for primary education.The local school board opened the Albert Road Board Schools in 1878 to cater for 815 younger children. The original Factory School on Victoria Road remained in use as the High School. The building is still in use and today hosts Saltaire Primary School.
• St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  Seaside resort in southern England. Location of a school attended by Shipley textiles businessman, MP and philanthropist SIr Norman Rae.
• 2023.2: The life and work of Mohammed Aziz 1929-

  A personal history given by Aziz of his migrating to the United Kingdom to work in the textile industry. Aziz worked at Salts Mill in the 1980s during its last few years before closure. Aziz gave this account of his life to Saltaire Collection volunteer Maggie Smith.
• Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village near Halifax, West Yorkshire. Location of Crow Nest, a large house in its own grounds and the favourite home of Sir Titus Salt.
• Settle, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Market town in North Yorkshire
• D1-162: Sir Titus Salt

  A biography of Titus Salt by his friend and contemporary the Reverend R. Balgarnie. Originally written in 1877 shirtly after Titus's death, this book is a 1970 reprint.
• 2023.8: Saltaire: a look a the past

  A paper-backed booklet by Dorothy Burrows. Contains historical photographs of Saltaire with accompanying brief descriptions.