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• Ajeeb, Mohammed

  Bradford councillor and Lord Mayor in 1985-1986
• Albert Road School

  A new primary school on Albert Road in Saltaire was opened in 1878, its creation supported by husband and wife Titus Salt Junior and Catherine Salt. It has remained a primary school until the present day. When it opened, Children at the Albert Road schools were taught in mixed classes of around 40 children, although boys and girls were still seated in separate halves of the room, and corporal punishment was forbidden. At the time, the Shipley and Saltaire Times reported that people were doubtful whether this new approach to education would work. Shortly after their opening, the same newspaper printed a report on the schools and retracted their earlier criticism.
• Albert Road School buildings, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  As the population of Saltaire grew, the Factory School on Victoria Road (today the Salt Building) became inadequate for the number of children requiring an education. The Salt family provided land on the Western side of Albert Road for the building of a new school for primary education.The local school board opened the Albert Road Board Schools in 1878 to cater for 815 younger children. The original Factory School on Victoria Road remained in use as the High School. The building is still in use and today hosts Saltaire Primary School.
• Almshouses, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Unlike many of his contemporaries, Titus Salt was determined to ensure a decent quality of life for his workers, even after they left his employ. In addition to the many educational institutions he built to allow workers to better themselves, he also commissioned the almshouses on Victoria Road. The 45 almshouses were built to provide shelter for those who couldn’t support themselves, such as widows and injured workers. Although preference was given to workers in Salts Mill and their families, anyone of ‘good character’ and unable to support themselves was eligible. Although this was unusually generous by the standards of the time, residents were subject to strict rules on their behaviour and the maintenance of the houses. In what is now No. 29, there was originally a small chapel to save residents walking down to the Congregational Church. On opening it, Salt is reported to have said: 'My sole desire is that you should be happy, and nothing would give me greater pleasure than to know that you are so'.
• Altiplano, Peru

  The Altiplano is a high plateau in the northern Andes of South America. Much of the area is in Bolivia but it reaches north into Peru and south into Chile. The Peruvian Altiplano is the home of the alpacas that provided wool for the textile business of Sir Titus Salt.
• Amerongen, Netherlands

  Amerongen is a town in the Utrect province of the Netherlands. The German Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in a castle in Amerongen after he abdicated in November 1918. Isabel Salt has a tin of acorns that (perhaps) were gathered in the Kaiser's garden.
• Anne, Princess

  Only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
• Austwick, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Small rural village in North Yorkshire. Location of the retirement home of Harriet Byles, the second head teacher of the Salts High School for Girls.
• Avezzano, Italy

  City in the Abruzzo region of Italy. After the Second World War this was one of the areas where people were recruited to work in Britain, particularly in the textile industry.
• Ayr, Ayrshire, United Kingdom

  Ayr is a town on the South West coast of Scotland.
• B1-031: The Famous Belwarp Fabrics

  Advert for 'The Famous Belwarp Fabrics'
• B1-032/3: Commentary by Dave Shaw on the photographs of and brochures about Salts Mill machinery from the Bowtell Collection.

  Commentary by Dave Shaw on the photographs of and brochures about Salts Mill machinery from the Bowtell Collection. 'Photographs exist of some of the machinery installed in Salts Mill during its days of textile production. Several of the photos were used in two promotional brochures produced by the company, the first (in French) in 1918 (approx) under the name Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co Ltd; the second, in 1924 (approx) under the name Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. (Further commentary on the two brochures can be found overpage). Additionally, there are photos of the Mill departments following removal of machinery, presumably taken in the 1980s. The photographs were held by the late Mr Albert Bowtell, and subsequently (2007) donated by his widow Mrs J Bowtell to the Saltaire Archive. The original photos have been digitally scanned to minimise further handling and many are reproduced here for easy reference. We are anxious to document as much as we can about the type of machinery seen in the photos, its date of use, the mill department in which it was used etc etc. If you can help us to this end, please add your comments (together with your name and contact details) to the sheets accompanying the photos. The Industrial Museum has in its Reference Library a few Salts Mill brochures which are a very good source of information. Two of the brochures date from around the 1920s, one being in French, the other being in English. The French-language brochure was designed and printed by W. N. Sharpe Ltd., of Bradford and London. The Mill's company name in the brochure is 'Sir Titus Salt Bart Sons & Co Ltd'. Its text has mention of a Royal visit in 1918, so it dates from after that event. I currently judge it to be 1920-ish. (Also it is judged to have been produced by letterpress (indicated by the imprint on p15/16). The English language brochure was designed and printed by Percy Lund, Humphries and Company Ltd, The County Press Ltd, Bradford. The Mill's company name in the brochure is 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd'. The brochure carries a page of photos of the company's board members of 1924, which presumably allows us to date it as being of that year. (This brochure is thought to have been produced by litho-press). Much of the text and the illustrations are common to the two publications. The French-language text is briefer than the English-language text, and the English-language brochure has more illustrations. Although most of the illustrations are common, many of those of the English-language brochure have been 'improved' — eg blemishes in photos have been removed; indistinct features have been sharpened by hand etc. Even the Belwarp and alpaca trademarks of the two publications are not quite identical. An illustration of the Mill, viewed from the SW, is common to both brochures but with modifications having been made in the later one — for example, cars have replaced horse-drawn carts seen in the other (earlier) brochure. What is also of interest is that several — perhaps the majority — of the photos are the same as those in Mr Bowtell's collection, including the ones which have been touched up. As we investigate the various photos in more detail, the two brochures will help date the textile machinery that features in the photos in the collection of Mr Bowtell.'
• B1-032/3/1: Carding 1

  Small machine in left foreground together with carding engines in shed
• B1-032/3/10: Burling and mending

  Photograph shows a number of burling and mending tables with a large pile of grey pieces (unfinished cloth) in the foreground. The shed is decorated with bunting and decorations
• B1-032/3/11: Hank winding

  Photograph shows close ups of four workers standing among machines. There are 6 cupboards containing yarn. The cupboard in the foreground is piled with bobbins. There are four baskets to the right of the picture
• B1-032/3/12: Dyeing 1

  Photograph shows New Mill. Three men are holding a piece of cloth to the right of a wheeled truck. In the background workers stand in front of dyeing machinery. There are two piles of clothv in the foreground - the left is piled with white cloth, the right with darker cloth
• B1-032/3/13: Dyeing 2

  Male worker standing in the left foreground behind a table piled with two different types of coloured cloth. A piece of cloth is suspended over his head. A group of men are in the background
• B1-032/3/14: Finishing

  Photograph shows finishing machinery. On the left hand side a man stands behind a small machine with a group of four men behind him. To the right stands a man with his left arm behind his back
• B1-032/3/15: Finishing and washing

  Photograph shows the finishing room with two men holding a length of white cloth. There is another pile of white cloth to the left of the photograph. To the right is a truck containing coloured cloth with a step ladder behind it.
• B1-032/3/16: Packing and dispatch

  Photograph shows piles of cloth both packed and unpacked. There are six packages to the left of the photograph with six piles of unwrapped cloth in the middle. A man stands to the left of some hats and coats with three dark suited men behind him and another man behind a table holding some cloth