Items

• A1-125: Notes on two documents related to Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co. Ltd.

  Detailed notes on two original documents 'Memorandum and Suggestions',1883 and 'Statement and Scheme for reconstruction', 1892 relating to the Salt family business. The original documents are available as 2024.65 and 2024.66 (with a typewrtitten copy also availalbe at 2018.36.3). Local historian David King gives a detailed interpretation of two key documents in the history of the Salt textile business and Saltaire. The first doucment is a suggestion for a financial reconstruction of Sir TItus Salt Barts. Sons & Co. Ltd to meet its liabilities. The second document describes the status of the company in 1892 when it was facing voluntary liquidation and being bought by a consortium of local businessmen inlcuding James Roberts.
• A1-134a-b: Salt family

  Copy of 'Memorandum & Suggestions for Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co September 1883. The original document (and more details) are available as item 2024.65.
• A1-185: Salt family

  Newspaper article from the Telegraph and Argus, dated December 29th 1990 written by Mike Priestley. The article explores new work on Saltaire by John Styles author of 'Titus Salt and Saltaire - Industry and Virtue' which challenges the notion that Salt's paternalism was purely benevolent. The article contains a black and white photgraph of Sir Titus Salt and an engraving of Saltaire dating from the late nineteeth-century.
• A1-190: Salt family at opening of Saltaire Studies Centre

  A collection of photographs on the visit of the Salt family for the opening of the Saltaire Studies Centre at Shipley College in 1995
• A1-191.1+.2: Salt family at opening of the Saltaire Studies Centre

  Photograph of members of the Salt family for the opening of the Saltaire Studies Centre at Shipley College in 1995. Copy photograph has identifying labels.
• A1-192: Salt family in 1995

  Photograph of members of the Salt family-1995
• A2-001: Milner Field Estate

  Description of main physical features of Milner Field Estate, including housing, woodland etc.
• A2-002: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field

  Plan of Milner Field Estate (George Belk Smith - Estate Agent & Surveyor) Laminated Copy
• A2-004: Milner Field Estate

  List of the acreage of the Milner Field Estate May 1960
• A2-008a: Milner Field, For Sale

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date.
• A2-009a: Milner Field Estate plan

  Plan of Estate from sale catalogue, showing the entire estate for the 1922 sale and the lot numbers
• A2-010a-b: The annual staff party at Milner Field

  A photograph from annual staff party at Milner Field, with description & notes by Roger Clarke.
• A2-012a,b,c: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field

  Inventory of Milner Field Estate, amended 02/09/1963 (by Mr A.J. Wilson?) Original & copies
• A2-013: Salt Family - Residences; Milner Field

  Red binder containing miscellaneous items on Milner Field, including architect's drawings, correspondence, and extracts from The Builder
• A2-016: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest

  Set of photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe (laminated copies, undated):
• A2-016/1: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest

  Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Entrance
• A2-016/2a-b: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest

  Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Main house + 1 Photocopy
• A2-016/3a--b: Salt Family - Residences; Crow Nest

  Photographs of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe. Conservatory + 1 Photocopy
• A2-017: Salt Family - Residences; Methley Hall

  Photograph of Main house, Methley Hall
• A2-019: The Gardens at Milner Field

  The Gardens at Milner Field (Word doc by Roger Clarke, includes plan of grounds)