Saltaire Collection

Items

• D1-071.12: Notes on the Saltaire Archive

  Notes on the contemporary growing collection of the historical items relating to Saltaire.
• 2018.3.24: Cheques book

  Cheque book with a plain cover numbered 4684/4713 containing unused cheques for The Bradford Bank Company Limited Bradford. There are also 5 loose blank cheques, which all appear to have been taken from this book. The cheques are headed Milner Field with the Salts crest to the left of the check. The book is in the name of Titus Salt Junior. As Titus Salt Junior died in 1887 and this book has never been used by him, its likely that it was issued to him in the 1880's just before he died.
• A2-006/1: written quote

  Copy of a hand written quote from Wormesley and Co of St James Street, Leeds ' Public Decorators and Bazaar Contractors providers of temporary room and marquees for balls, weddings, royal visits and coming of age festivities'. The quote is made out to Mrs Salt and is dated August 10th 1895. The quote is for fixing and laying a raised oak and walnut parquet floor in the drawing room and library and for the erection of a 60ft by 30ft ballroom with a polished parquet floor lined with amber and cream drapery, to supply seating and to cart goods to and from Bingley station.
• E2-061a-d: Fee Receipt for James Lambert's Art Class

  'The Salts School: The Institute Class Fee Receipt for James Lambert's Art Class (24th May 1886)
• D1-071.9: Accounts for the Saltaire Village Society

  Accounts for the Saltaire Village Society
• 2018.36.4: Winding up of Sir Titus Salt, Bart & Co Ltd

  Original document written by Wade, Bilbrough, Booth & Co. regarding the winding up of Sir Titus Salt, Bart & Co Ltd and its sale to the Syndicate: Messrs Smith, Rhodes, Maddocks and Roberts
• B1-112: Alpaca designs

  Two sheets of paper with small prints of Alpaca designs. One of the sheets has a hanwdriting suggesting some type of selection procecess. See also B1-547 which are the actual stamps used to make the imprints.
• D1-071.10: Meeting minutes the Saltaire Village Society

  Meeting minutes the Saltaire Village Society
• 2025.115: Minutes of the Salts Mill Association

  Minutes of the Salts Mill Association 1. Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee 1st July 1986 2. Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee 25th February 1987 3. Minutes of the Meeting of the Committee 15th June 1987 4. Minutes for the AGM of the Association 12th September 1989
• C2a-125: Never absent never late

  A pack of 33 attendance cards from Albert Road School awarded to Donald Berry for good attendance.
• C2a-127: Attendance card

  Card of 'Albert Road School: Presentation for one weeks perfect attendance' Picture of chaffinches in a bush
• C2a-133a-d: School attaendance card

  4 small cards marked: 'Shipley Education Committeee - Central School (Infants Department) M. Schofield -Head Master 'Presented for One Weeks Perfect Attendance' [Reverse has coloured pictures of country scenes)
• C3a-183a: Partial Exemption Labour Certificate

  Original copy of a school leaving 'Partial Exemption Labour Certificate' (20th March 1915) for Mary Ann Wood (1903-1984)
• E1a-008g: Payments to pupil teachers

  Letter from Shipley Education Committee regarding payments to pupil teachers at the High School
• E1a-010: Report on Albert Road School

  Typed copy of a report on Albert Road School in Shipley & Saltaire Times
• E1b-158: School medical examination note

  Original form from Shipley Education Committee for the Medical Examination of Eric Sutcliffe 1913. With statistics on E. Sutcliffe
• 2019.53.2: Attendance Register

  Attendance register from Salt School (boys). 1 of 2 school registers rescued from a skip.
• 2022.42: 'Saltaire - the origins of a model industrial community'

  A collection of 20 reproductions of old documents, prints and photographs relating to Saltaire
• 2022.43: 'Poverty and Progress - Social conditions in early and mid ninteenth century Bradford'

  A collection of 20 reproductions of old documents, prints and photographs relating to the history of Bradford - also contains an index list of the documents and a paper by G.Firth on 'Poverty and Progress Social conditions in early and mid ninteenth century Bradford'
• 2018.45.3.1: Shipley Technical School, Textile Department, frontispiece of work book

  First page from a Shipley Technical School work book for John Love of 26 Shirley Street, Saltaire. Book is for the subject of Spinning for the Winter session 1907-1908. Page is signed by teacher George Long.