Items

• 2025.15: The aesthetics of Utopia: Saltaire, Akroydon and Bedford Park

  Discusses three model industrail villages built in the second half of the nineteenth century. Includes consideration fo their different architectural styles. Has chapeters on: Saltaire (italianate style), Akroydon (in Halifax, gothic style); Bedford Park (west London - QUeen Anne Revival)
• 2025.16: Villages of vision: A study of strange utopias

  A detaled study of 'planned' villages - villages built for aesthetic, philanthropic or political reasons. Discusses such examples as New Lanark and Port Sunlight. Includes a brief section on Saltaire.
• 2025.17: A time in our lives

  SUbtitled: 'a youth club in the West Riding of Yorkshire, revisited'. A history, written by one of teh members, of a youth club founded in Saltaire during the 1960s. Discusses why the group was founded, its cultural norms, its management and leadership, its relationships, its prominent figures, and the activities that were pursued. Also has accounts of how major events in the 1960s impacted on teh group and its individual members.
• 2025.23: The Bradford Antiquary 2012

  The Bradford Antiquary The Journal of the Bradford Historical and Antiquarian Society Third series No.16 2012. Contains chapter entitled "The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, Saltaire, 1887" by Letitia Lawson and a review of "The Land Acquisitions of Titus Salt in Shipley and Baildon " by Ian Watson
• Ferniehurst, Baildon, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Ferniehurst was a grand mansion in Baildon, near Saltaire. It was built as the home of Edward Salt, the third son of Sir Titus, who was a director of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Company Limited. The house was demolished and is now mainly a recreational area.
• Gloucester, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

  Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire
• Wilsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Wilsden is a village in West Yorkshire about 6 miles west of Bradford.
• 2025.36: The Chartist Risings in Bradford

  The Chartist Risings in Bradford by D.G Wright. Includes history of Chartism and Radicalism
• 2025.37: Bingley and surrounds. Forgotten moments from history

  A book by local historian Alan Cattell. History of Bingley with lots of photographs. Contains chapter on Milner Field (the family home of Titus Salt Junior and CatherineSalt) and three chapters on Shipley Glen
• 2025.38: Street guide to Shipley

  Street guide to Shipley issued with the authority of the Shipley Urban District Council
• 2025.41: Woollen or worsted? An introduction to wool processing

  An introduction to wool processing by Bradford Industrial Museum. Includes photos and diagrams of machinery. The book is aimed at students of the textile industry
• 2025.42: Heritage site interactions in a post industrial city

  A student's Master's degree dissertation looking at Saltaire's heritage and its effect on local people
• 2025.43: Bradford history and guide

  History of Bradford with information on Sir Titus Salt. Contains photographic images, sketches and maps of Bradford
• 2025.44: Shipley official guide

  Shipley official guide issued by Shipley Urban District Council. Contains photographs and history of Shipley but no map
• 2025.45: West Yorkshire Canals and Navigations on old picture postcards

  A selection of picture postcards featuring scenes during the past century, with informative captions. Part of 'Yesterday's Yorkshire' series no.13. Contains information and photographs on the canal at Shipley
• 2018.63: Saltaire Building Conservation Policy

  An information pack explaining Saltaire's building conservation policy. Includes 6 separate booklets covering: 1. Shop front design 2. Maintenance and repair: programme of inspection 3. Home improvement check-list 4. Original designs and detailing 5.. Listed building repair work - advice notes 6. Some questions answered
• 2018.64: Saltaire: Our Memories, Our HIstory

  A booklet written by those who lived and worked in the early 1900s as young students, about their memories and experiences.
• 2018.66: Saltaire: An introduction to the village of Sir Titus Salt

  A booklet introducing Titus Salt and explaining the origins and features of Saltaire village.
• 2025.47: My cool allotment

  A book by Lia Leendertz on the modern allotment movement, subtitled 'An inspirational guide to allotments and community gardens'. Includes 31 examples of notable allotments, mainly in the United Kingdom but some from Europe.Includes a section on Saltaire's allotments.
• F1b-160.1: The Airedale Dyeworks pricelist (Spring 1922)

  Pricelist of dyeing clothing and household items. List covers ladies' dept, men's dept and household furnishings