Items

• B1-206: Salts Mill

  Enlarged photograph of Salt's employees on Blackpool promenade
• B1-208a-b: Long service certificate for Billy Firth

  Photos of presentation of long service certificate to Billy Firth
• B1-209a-b: Salts Mill

  Photo of presentation of long service certificate to a woman. Picture also shows Billy Firth
• B1-210: Salts Mill

  News cutting of presentation of long service certificate to Billy Firth
• B1-214a-b: Salts Mill

  A board-mounted - blank Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Long Service Certificate
• B1-215a: Long service ceritificate for William Firth

  Framed Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Long Service Certificate presented to William Firth for 50 years service
• B1-215b: Long service certificate for Henry Firth

  Framed Salts (Saltaire) Ltd Long Service Certificate presented to Henry Firth for 50 years service
• B1-216: Saltaire plaque

  Bronzed cardboard 'Saltaire' plaque with the Salts Alpaca logo
• B1-217b: Saltaire Folk - Peter Randall

  Article for the Saltaire Sentinel, about Peter Randall by Roger Clarke. Peter Randall was a Barber on the edge of Saltaire Village for 32 years, starting his career on 1 Gordon Terrace on the corner of George street.
• B1-218: Celebrations at Salts Mill

  Photocopy of a reproduction of article 'Celebrations at Salts Mill' by John Mayhall
• B1-218b: Poetry or Bust

  Booklet: 'Poetry or Bust' a play by Tony Harrison. It tells the story of John Nicholson a sometime woolsorter but published playwrite and poet known as the 'Airedale Poet'. Despite some success, Nicholson moved to Bradford and found work with Titus Salt as a woolsorter. He died while trying to cross the River Aire in 1943 in what became Saltaire about 10 years later. Tony Harrison's play tells the story of Nicholson's life and was first performed in Salts Mill in 1993, 150 years after his death and only 100 metres or so from where he tried to cross the river.
• B1-220a-m: On the Construction of Fire-proof Warehouses

  Extract from 'On the Construction of Fire-proof Warehouses' by William Fairbairn. Fairbairn was the chief engineer employed by Titus Salt when designing Salts Mill.
• B1-221: Alpaca cards

  Packet of assorted 'Alpaca 'Saltaire' ' cards
• B1-223: Salts Mill and Museum : A short history and guide

  Contains a brief history and black and white photographs
• B1-227a-c: Notes of the Roberts, Rhodes, Smith, Maddocks consortium

  3 Notes on the Roberts, Rhodes, Smith & Maddocks consortium that in the 1890s purchased the business of Sir Titus Salt Bart and Company from the Salt family.
• B1-237a-b: Workers leaving Salts Mill

  Photograph of employees leaving Salts Mill c.1950's
• B1-238a-c: Workers leaving Salts Mill

  2 copies of photograph of employees leaving Salts Mill c.1930s
• B1-240a-b: Salts Mill - General

  Mounted card with 2 photos of staff in Burling and Mending dept, in mill and at Blackpool
• B1-250a: Burling and Mending Department at Salts Mill 1936.

  Photograph of the Burling and Mending Department in Salts Mill. Christmas 1936. There are several women standing at their working positions, with a larger number standing behind them and to the right. Two men, one dressed in a white coat, are stood on the left. Everyone is looking at the camera. There are Christmas decorations hung from the ceiling.
• B1-266: Steam barge

  Photograph of Steam Barge towing fly boats at Salts Mill 1936