Items

• 2018.3.16.3: Exhibit of Angora Goats, for the top of the Triumphal Arch

  Photograph of the Angora Goat used on the top of the Archway, welcoming visitors to Saltaire on Victoria Road. The Arch was for the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887, which was opened by Princess Beatrice. Possibly purchased by Denys Salt from C.H. Wood. [The C.H. Wood Collection is now owned by Bradford Industrial Museum Collection]
• 2018.3.17: The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition, Saltaire 1887, Programme of the Proceedings on the opening of the Exhibition Programme by the Royal Highness the Princess Beatrice in the Queens Name and by her Majesties command.

  Original Programme for the opening of the Royal Jubilee Exhibition. The programme includes a short history of the exhibition and the words to a song, 'Great Britain's Sons and Daughters, by Joseph C Bridge.
• 2018.3.18.1: Near Tunbridge Wells, Kent

  Framed original drawing by Sir Titus Salt as pupil at Mr Harrison's academy - 'Near Tunbridge Wells, Kent'
• 2018.3.19.1: Will of Daniel Salt

  Copy of the will of Daniel Salt & codicil to the will dated 14th December 1843. Daniel Salt (6.5.1781 - 28.12.1843) was a wool stapler and was the father of Sir Titus Salt. His wife was Grace Smithies who Daniel married in 5.7.1802.
• 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.
• 2018.3.30: Annual Conversazione and Ball at Saltaire

  Original page from The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, of black and white drawings of the High School, and the Institute in a London Newspaper on the Conversazione at Saltaire
• 2018.9.1.1.2: Correspondence

  Letters written to Isabel Salt
• 2018.31: 3 handled cup ornament

  Souvenir ornamental 3 handled china mug decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
• 2018.32: China vase ornament

  Small China vase with transfer of Sir Titus Salt Bart's crest, and text on rear, 'Roman Urn from original in Hospitium found at York'
• 2018.33: china jug

  Small ornamental souvenier jug decorated with a view of a valley with a stream running through it. Above this its given the title in the Glen Saltaire.
• 2018.34: China ornament

  Small souvenir vase with 5 handles decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.
• 2018.35: China ornament

  Small China souvenier ornament loving cup decorated with a coat of arms and the word Saltaire underneath.
• 2018.36.1: A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field

  A poem titled 'A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field. The poem was privately printed to celebrate the opening of the Technical Schools in Bradford. The poem is set out in the centre of the page in gold lettering and is surrounded by a border of the Prince of Wales feathers.
• 2018.36.2: Letter to Mrs Titus Salt about royal visit

  Letter to Mrs Titus Salt from Abraham Holroyd about the poem to A Welcome for Prince & Princess of Wales on the visit Bradford, Saltaire and Milner Field. The letter states that the poem was set by his son who was an apprentice in a printing company.
• 2018.36.3: Statement and Scheme for the reconstruction of Sir Titus Salt Bart & Sons Ltd

  A twelve page document, written on behalf of the trustees of the Will of Sir Titus Salt Bart. concerning the financial status of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co. Ltd. in 1892, and proposals for it going into voluntary liquidation and of being purchased by a consortium of four local businessmen including James Roberts. This appears to be an official copy of he orignal legal document which is availabe as item 2024.66. Local historian David King provides a detailed description of the document in item A1-125.
• 2018.36.6: Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Batenburg planting a tree.

  Black and white tinted large framed photograph of Princess Beatrice, and her husband Prince Henry of Battenburg planting a tree. The tree planting may have been at either Milner Field or in what is now Roberts Park. The tree planting was part of the Royal visit to open the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition in 1887 to celebrate the opening of the new School of Art and Science in Saltaire.
• 2018.37.6: Large platter

  Large platter, one of a full Davenport, decorated dinner service purchased by Catherine and Sir Titus Salt Junior. They were probably from used for dinner parties, but were definitley used for the Royal Visits in 1882 for the visit of Prince and Princess of Wales.
• 2018.39.1: Minton China Service

  1 of 6 China plates from a Minton China Service which was made for the Opening of Salts Mill in 1853.
• 2018.26: China sugar bowl or conserve dish

  China sugar bowl or conserve dish with lid marked 'A present from Saltaire' in gold.
• 2018.28: Saltaire China cup and saucer

  Small china cup and saucer decorated with the Saltaire crest and Saltaire written underneath.