Items

• 2018.45.2: Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, student book, Spinning

  The book is a student work book, which has been beautifully written in Copper plate writing. It has been used to record the lesson on Spinning, detailing the process with images, that the student learnt at Shipley Technical School, which later became Shipley College. Many students at the college went to work in the Mill and then attended classes in the evening.
• 2018.45.3: Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, student book, Spinning

  The book is a student work book, which has been beautifully written in Copper plate writing. It has been used to record the lesson on Spinning, detailing the process with images, that the student learnt at Shipley Technical School, which later became Shipley College. Many students at the college went to work in the Mill and then attended classes in the evening.
• 2019.53.1: Staff Register

  Staff register from Salt School (girls). 1 of 2 school registers rescued from a skip.
• 2019.53.2: Attendance Register

  Attendance register from Salt School (boys). 1 of 2 school registers rescued from a skip.
• 2022.24: The Story of Bradford - authoured by Margaret C.D. Law

  A basic history of Bradford from ancient times to modern times (circa 1930s)
• 2022.25: Round About Bradford - Volume One - authoured by William Cudworth

  Round About Bradford - A series of sketches (Descriptive and Semi-Historical) of Forty-Two Places Within Six Miles Of Bradford. Short History of Bradford
• 2022.26: Round About Bradford - Volume Two - authoured by William Cudworth

  Round About Bradford - A series of sketches (Descriptive and Semi-Historical) of Forty-Two Places Within Six Miles Of Bradford. Short History of Bradford - includes chapter of Saltaire
• 2022.27: The Journal of Dr. John Simpson of Bradford 1825

  Diary of Day to Day Record - Jan 1st to July 25th 1825 - by Dr John Simpson - Picture of John Simpson on 1st page. Originally published in 1825.
• 2022.28: Bradford City Hall - A History and Guide

  Coloured paperback book - Map of Bradford on 1st page. Coloured and black and white photographs inside
• 2022.29: Chasing the sixpence: The lives of Bradford mill folk

  Paperback book. History of textile workers in Bradford during the period 1920s to 1970s. Accounts of their working and living conditions based on interviews with dozens of former mill workers.
• Stornoway, Western Isles, United Kingdom

  Stornoway is the largest town on the island of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, off the West coast of Scotland. Sir Titus Salt paid for the first lifeboat to be stationed there.
• Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Oxenhope is a rural village near to Haworth and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Sir James Roberts was born in Oxenhope.
• Haworth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Haworth is a village near to Keighley in West Yorkshire. Haworth is most famous as being the family home of the literary Brontë sisters. Sir James Roberts, owner of Saltaire and Salts Mill in the early twentieth century, bought Haworth Parsonage and gifted it to the Brontë Society for use as museum.
• Ayr, Ayrshire, United Kingdom

  Ayr is a town on the South West coast of Scotland.
• 2019.55.1: Student reports for Ivy Severs

  Shipley Education Committee Central Girls School Student's Reports booklet belonging to Ivy Severs, 1929. Ivy later married and became Ivy Muschamp and ran a grocers shop on Victoria Road in Saltaire in the 1950s.
• York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  York is city, established in ancient times, in North Yorkshire.
• Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, United Kingdom

  Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England about 30 miles from London.
• 2022.30: The Great Paternalist - Titus Salt, The Growth of Ninteenth-Century Bradford by Jack Reynolds

  A general history of the story of Titus Salt and the origins of the textile history in the Bradford area - Includes hand-written-notes notes written by Phillip Barlow in preparation for the reprint and addition ainformation of the book 'Balgarnie's Salt' by 'Barlo & Shaw'
• 2022.31: Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries 1850-1939 by J.A. Jowitt and A.J. McIvor

  Various aspects of the textie trade covering: Employers, trade Unions and Women in textiles.
• 2022.32: 'A Penny for Going - A history of Saltaire and its regeneration told through its shops' by Roger Clarke

  Book of text and black and white and coloured photos relating the story of the history of shops in Saltaire and Shipley