Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2024.35: Small section of lead gas piping for lighting

  A small section of lead piping used for the supply of gas in a house in Saltaire. Pipe was found during redecoration of a first-floor rear bedroom in the 2020s. The lower end of the pipe was embedded in original lime plaster and connected to what may have been a wall mounting for a gas mantle. The lack of disturbance to the plasterwork, where the pipe joined the wall, suggests that the pipe was installed during construction of the house. This section of pipe provides direct evidence to corroborate contemporary newspaper reports that gas lighting was provided in Saltaire housing at the time of construction.
• 2018.55: Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Co Limited

  Promotional booklet for the Salt company. Booklet is similar to others from the same time but has text in French. Contains photographs of processes in the mill. Has two pages of introductory text.
• 2018.9.1.1.1.2: Letter to Catherine Salt from Isabel Salt in Germany

  Correspondence sent to Isabel's mother Catherine Salt. A letter from Isabel Salt, to Catherine Salt at Milner Field. In envelope postmarked Berlin [1895]. Written on a train travelling from Dresden. Includes account of her time spent in Dresden with friends.
• 2018.9.1.1.1.3: Letter to Catherine Salt from Isabel Salt in Harrogate

  Correspondence sent to Isabel's mother Catherine Salt. Letter to 'Dear Mother', The Old Rectory, Boston Spa, from Isabel, 20 Spring Grove, Harrogate. Pre-1930. - letter, envelope and transcription
• 2024.41: Milner Field - the lost country house of Titus Salt jnr

  Paperback book by Lee-Van den Daele, Richard and Beale, R. David. Illustrated history of Milner Field, a mansion near to Saltaire built for Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine. The house was later owned by Sir James Roberts. It has a rather infamous history for a series of tragedies assocatied with it, including the death of Titus Salt Junior at a young age.
• 2024.43: On Tenterhooks

  Paperback book with full title 'On Tenterhooks - a compendium of textile words, terms and expressions'. Compiled by Eugene Nicholson. A glosary of words, terms and expressions used in the British textile undustry.
• 2024.44: Textiles

  Hadback book by Hugh Bodey. A history of making textiles from ancient times until the twentieth century.
• 2024.48: Bradford

  Hardback book by Joseph Fieldhouse. A history of Bradford.
• 2024.56.1: A weaver loads a pirn of weft thread into a shuttle, 1940s

  Picture of a room in a mill containing several machines. A woman is stood at a machine loading a shuttle.
• 2024.56.10: The second Midland station at Forster Square during the late nineteenth century

  Photograph shows the fron the Midland Railway station at Forster Square in Bradford. Several horse drawn carriages are visible in front of the building, A connected building has a sign 'Refreshment rooms'
• 2024.56.11: The transport fleet of Lister and Company at the rear of Manningham Mills

  Photographs shows aline of vehicles parked in front of Manningham Mills (also known as Lister's Mill). a large textile mill in Bradford. Four of the vehicles are early internal cumbustion engine small trucks,. Three are steam powered trucks.
• 2024.56.12: An Italian 'Tingelary' man in Little Germany

  Photograph shows a street performer stood behind a hand-drawn cart in Peckover Street in the Little Germany area of Bradford. Three monkeys are visible on the cart. Two are wearing clothes and are holding a tambourine and a cymbal.
• 2024.56.2: Tram setting off for Saltaire from forster square

  Picture of Forster square in Bradford. A tram is setting off for Saltaire within a busy street scene
• 2024.56.5: Lister's Mill and its housing for its workers, from Lilycroft Road 1920s

  Photograph shows a wide street (Lilycroft Road) running in front of terraced houses on the left. Behind the houses, furhter down the road, can be seen Lister's Mill, a very large textile mill built in the late nineteenth century by Samuel Cunliffe Lister. A horse and cart and some children are visible on the road on the right of the image.,
• 2024.56.6: Little Horton Lane

  Photograph of a large crowd of people completely filling a square on Little Horton Lane in Bradford on 4 May 1904 during a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Bunting is hung at the sides of the streets. One building has a sign 'Appleton & Co.'. People are also visible in windows and on the roofs of buildings.
• 2024.56.7: Shop on the corner of Ivegate and Kirkgate, circa 1860

  Photograph of a large, double-fronted building consisting of two shops at the corner of two streets in Bradford. A large sign 'T. Hunter' appears over the left-hand shop. A second sign 'Blackburn' appears above the shop on the right. The second shop has smaller signs 'Chemist and druggist' and 'Patent & proprietary medicines'.
• 2024.56.9: Works outing aboard a charabanc, 1920

  Photograph shows an open top small bus full of seated people on several rows. People appear to be well-dressed. The driver in a hat is stood at the front of the vehicle.
• 2024.58: The Salt Saga volume 1

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, the mill and Sir Titus Salt, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.59: The Salt Saga volume 2

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.60: The Salt Saga volume 3

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.