Saltaire Collection

Items

• 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
• 2022.14: Bradford Fifty Years Ago 1847-1897

  A Jubilee Memorial of the Bradford Corporation and a Literary and Pictorial Record of Bradford by William Scruton
• 2022.15: Holroyd's Collectanea

  'A Collection of Papers on the History of Bradford and the Neighbourhood' ' Collated and edited by Abraham Holroyd'
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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'
• 2022.32: '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
• 2022.34: Model Industrial Communties in Mid-Nineteenth Century Yorkshire- Edited by J.A.Jowitt

  A series of papers by various authors on various 'model villages' in Yorkshire - Including Saltaire, Copy , Ackroydon,West Hill Park etc.
• 2022.35: Textile History 1968-70 - volume 1. Edited by K.G. Ponting

  Chapters on various textile businesses including 'Titus Salt's Day Book 1834-7 by J.R. Iredale. Includes black and white photographs
• 2022.36: Milner Field - The Lost Country House of Titus Salt Jnr by R.L. Van den Daele and R.D. Beale

  A book of text with colour and black and white photographs telling the story of Milner Field house and the people who lived in it. Frontispiece contains the coat-of-arms of Titus Jnr and the signatures of Richard L. Van den Daele and David Beale