Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2024.150.3: High Tea

  An advertising poster for a High Tea event in the Glen Room of Victoria Hall as part of the 2015 Conversazione. The poster annouces 'A unique vintage tea experience.Serving a selection of sandwiches and freshly baked cakes.'
• 2018.37: Dinner service

  Part of a full Davenport, decorated dinner service purchased by Catherine and Titus Salt Junior. They were probably used for dinner parties, but were definitely used for the Royal Visits in 1882 for the visit of Prince and Princess of Wales.
• 2018.39: Minton China Service

  6 China plates from a Minton China Service which was made for the Opening of Salts Mill in 1853.
• 2022.1: Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' silk scarf

  Silk scarf printed with 'Royal Yorkshire Exhibition 'Saltaire 1887' surrounding the Salt Coat of Arms, multiple times. See also 2021.2 for a similar item.
• 2024.33: Salt before Saltaire

  A research document from local historian Les Brook on the history of Sir Titus Salt before the move of his business to Saltaire in 1853. In four parts: Part 1: The investigation starts with snippets of evidence […in Part 2 onwards, I try to make sense of these] 3 Part 2: The Salts’ Early Years in Bradford 12 Part 3: Titus Salt’s Bradford mills 16 Part 4: A Cartographic Summary of Titus Salt’s Bradford before Saltaire
• 2018.42.2: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1870

  2 of 5 volumes of the public ation 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. There are no prints in this volume
• 2018.42.3: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1870

  3 of 5 volumes of the public ation 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. Contains prints of Bradford, Saltaire etc. This volume contains a history of the principle cities of Yorkshire.
• 2018.42.4: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 1. 1873

  4 of 5 volumes of the public ation 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. Containing prints of Rivaulx and Bolton Abbeys and Bradford Wool Exchange. This volume contains the early history of Yorkshire from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th century. Includes Daniel Defoes 'Tour of Yorkshire'. Includes the history of the Woollen and Worsted Manufacture of Yorkshire.
• 2018.42.5: Yorkshire Past and Present Vol. 2. 1875

  5 of 5 volumes of the public ation 'Yorkshire Past and Present'. This volume contains the history of several boroughs in Yorkshire, details of the Parliamentary divisions of Yorkshire and prints of Halifax and York, Leeds etc.
• 2018.45.1: 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.
• 2019.49: 'Saltaire The Making of a Model Town

  'Saltaire The Making of a Model Town' by Neil Jackson, Jo Lintonbon, Bryony Staples
• 2020.18: Bright Boots

  Autobiography of the life of Fred Greswell. He owned Bradford Property Trust which bought the village of Saltaire from Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. in 1933. Fred Gresswell 1890-1985 startred work in the grocery trade, then moved into Insurance and then property management
• 2021.13: Images of Bingley

  Images of Bingley by Helen Mills and Heather Baldwin. Containing photographs covering the social life of the people of Bingley
• 2021.14: Sir H. Norman Rae 1860-1928 - Our Local Benefactor

  Sir H. Norman Rae 1860-1928 by G. Shuttleworth and M. Walker. Covering he life of the man who gave Northcliffe Park to the people of Shipley
• 2021.15: Balgarnie's Salt - with commentary and additions by Barlow & Shaw

  Balgarnie's Salt - with commentary and additions by Barlow & Shaw, bringing more information to the original Balgarnie biography of Sir Titus Salt
• 2021.16: Railway Byways in Yorkshire

  Railway Byways in Yorkshire by R,.N. Redman. Containing information on Shipley Glen Tramway
• 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.
• 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-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 Dixon's Mill (which was later demolished and replaced by the 'New Mill' part of Saltaire's Salts Mill)