Items

• Collins Collection
• Collins, John

  General manager in the estates division of Illingworth Morris. John worked at the mill for 11 years.
• Colne, Lancashire, United Kingdom

  Colne is a market town in east Lancashire
• Congregational Sunday School site, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  The Sunday School was the last building constructed in Titus Salt’s lifetime, built on the corner of Caroline Street and Victoria Road. Initially, the site was going to be used for a hotel but it was repurposed for the Sunday School. Salt was a keen proponent of Sunday Schools and lived just long enough to see his own completed. Titus and his wife Caroline attended the opening ceremony but were forced to leave early due to his failing health. His grandson, Harold Salt, opened the Sunday School in May 1876. Sir Titus died in December the same year. The Sunday School was demolished in 1973 and is now a council-run car park.
• Coomber Collection
• Copenhagen, Denmark

  Capital city of Denmark
• Cotson Collection
• Crofton, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A viilage near Wakefield in West Yorkshire. Titus Salt's parents moved the family to a farm at Crofton in 1813 and stayed until 1822.
• Cromer, Norfolk, United Kingdom

  Cromer is a coastal town in Norfolk, United Kingdom. It became popular in the nineteenth century as a holiday destination.
• Cross Roads, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Cross Roads was originally a small village situated between Keighley and Haworth. It was the site of a textile mill operated by Salts (Saltaire) Limited.
• Crossley, Edward

  Edward Crossley was a son of Joseph Crossley, a major textile industrialist in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Edward was also an industrialist, an MP and mayor of Halifax, and a keen amateur astronomer. His main connection to Saltaire is that his sister Catherine married Titus Salt Junior. There were financial dealings between Edward and the Salts.
• Crow Nest, Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Crow Nest was a large house in its own grounds originally buitl in 1775 by the prominent Walker family. It bercame a favourite home of Sir Titus Salt. He first rented it between 1844 and 1858 (during the time Saltaire was starting to be built). Salt eventually bought it from the Walkers in 1867 and live there until his death in 1876.
• Cullercoats, Northumberland, United Kingdom

  Cullercoats is a village on the coast of Northumberland in England. Cullercoats has a good beach and is a popular holiday and day-trip destination. Students from the Salts Grammar School visited the village in 1955.
• D1-001a-b: Rules of the Saltaire Club and Institute

  Copies of the 'Rules of the Saltaire Club and Institute'
• D1-002: Leisure - Groups & Societies

  Modern typed notes on the facilities of the Saltaire Institue in 1869
• D1-003: Lecture at the Saltaire Institute

  A copy of a report from the Saltaire Magazine of 1871 of the first lecture to be held in the Saltaire Club and Institute on 18 January . The lecture was given by W.F. Barrett of London on the subject of 'Electricity and the Electric Telegraph'. The article reports that there were 600 people present. The lecturer demonstrated ideas using successful experients. Half the article is taken up with a condemnation of the actions of 'boys' in the audience who had 'chewed tobacco, and polluted the floor in several parts of the hall with their filthy spittals'.
• D1-004: Advertisement for 'The Institute'

  Mounted advertisement for 'The Institute' (mid 20th century)
• D1-005: Saltaire an Introduction

  Copy of an item on the Saltaire Club and Institute from Jack Reynolds entitled 'Saltaire an Introduction'. Describes how Titus Salt viewed the Club and Institute as a means of encouraging a sober and industrious workforce by providing them with an alternative to public houses and beer shops.
• D1-006: Saltaire Club and Institute Logo

  Copy of the Saltaire Club and Institute Logo
• D1-007: Display about the Saltaire Club and Institute

  Display board of mounted items relating to the Saltaire Club and Institute