Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2020.2.16: School exercise book for Textile department for 1912-1913 session

  Shipley Technical School - Textile Department note book. With'Students Name' 'Harold Kendall' 'Session 1912-1913' 'Subject: 3rd Year Woollen and Worsted Spinning' handwritten in ink. This exercise book was used by Harold Kendall while a student at the Technical School, now Shipley College. The book includes notes from his 'Woollen, Worsted and Spinning' classes. The exercise book icludes notes on: Textile Fabrics, Mineral Fibres, Sketches of rollers, physical properties of wool and other materials, Sketches of machines to clean and wash wool. How different countries climates etc. produce different wools. The quality and use of wools. Sketch maps of the different sheep in different countries, and the different yarns from sheep. Trade terms and names, wool values. 'Gret details for anyone studying the history of wool textile production.'
• 2020.2.17: School exercise book for Textile department for 1913-1914 session

  Shipley Technical School - Textile Department note book. With 'Students Name' 'Harold Kendall' 'Session 1913-1914' 'Subject: 4th Year Woollen and Worsted Spinning' handwritten in ink. This exercise book was used by Harold Kendall while a student at the Technical School, now Shipley College. The book includes notes from his 'Woollen, Worsted and Spinning' classes. The exercise book icludes notes on: Woollen and Worsted Threads, Carding, Diagrams of spindles and cards in machines, Worsted carding engine details, How to prepare machines to put wool in, How to wash and clean machines, Types of combs to use in machines, Sketch drawings of different textile equipment. 'Great details for anyone studying the history of wool textile production'.
• 2020.2.18: School exercise book for Textile department 1914-15 session

  Shipley Technical School - Textile Department note book. With 'Students Name' 'Harold Kendall' 'Session 1914-1915' 'Subject: Woollen and Worsted Spinning' handwritten in ink. This exercise book was used by Harold Kendall while a student at the Technical School, now Shipley College. The book includes notes from his 'Woollen, Worsted and Spinning' classes. The exercise book icludes notes on: Drawing, afirst operation after Combing, Extensive notes and drawings of textile machines and parts, Details of production of fine mohair, alpaca and camel hair, and cashmire yarns. 'Great details for anyone studying the history of wool textile production'.
• F1a-118: Christmas card

  A Christmas card from Norman Rae thanking his supporters for their help in the recent election as MP for Shipley.
• D1-071.4: Invitations to Dances hosted by the Saltaire Village Society

  Invitation cards for their New Year's and Early Spring dances, hosted in Victoria Hall and featuring the Dale Country Band. They featured a raffle to raise money for the Society.
• C2a-131b: Front page of school magazine

  The front page of: 'Quid Non' - The school magazine of Salt Grammar School No.31 Summer 1963
• E1a-013: Quid Non January 1954

  Photocopy of 'Quid Non' Jan.1954 (Salts Grammar School Magazine)
• E1a-014: Quid Non January 1955

  Photocopy of 'Quid Non' Jan.1955 (Salts Grammar School Magazine)
• E1a-015: Quid Non Summer 1960

  Photocopy of 'Quid Non' Summer 1960 (Salts Grammar School Magazine)
• E1a-033: Quid Non April 1936

  Copy of Salts School 'The Quid Non' April 1936
• E1a-040: Quid Non May 1947

  Original copies of Salts Grammar School's 'Quid Non' May 1947
• E1a-041: Quid Non December 1947

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' December 1947
• E1a-042: Quid Non July 1948

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' July 1948
• E1a-043: Quid Non December 1948

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' December 1948
• E1a-044: Quid Non July 1949

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' July 1949
• E1a-050: Quid Non July 1948

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' July 1948
• E1a-051: Quid Non December 1948

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' December 1948
• E1a-052: Quid Non DEcember 1949

  Original copies of 'Quid Non' December 1949
• E1a-064: Quid Non Summer 1960

  Original copy of 'Quid Non' Summer 1960 (Autographed by class members)
• F1a-192: Alpaca; Foretelling the Future, stock and fibre in the 21st century, Volumn II.

  'Alpaca', a Magazine produced by the British Alpaca Society, this is the Winter 1999 edition and includes an article on fibre quality, and updates from around the world, including Australia and the USA.