Items

• D3-106a: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Original photograph of the Linley family of the Japanese Gardens
• D3-107: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Photocopy of postcards of Switchback, Tramway & Airedale Harriers
• D3-108a-b: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  2 copies of typed article: 'Memories of the Japanese Gardens' by Margaret Ellis
• D3-109a: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Booklet: 'Shipley Glen: An explantory outline of Physical Features etc. by W.P. Winter
• D3-110: 1d up 1/2d down

  Booklet '1d up 1/2d down' by Whitrick & Leak 'Trackless Publication' 1982). A bookley about the Shipley Glen tramway.
• D3-111: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Laminated Photocopy of Telegraph & Argus article 'Fun in the Glen' by Mike Priestley (25th June 1997)
• D3-112: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Laminated copy of Aire Valley Target article 'Historical Tramway is Top for Tourists' (13th May 1999)
• D3-113: Article entitled 'The Glen' by Alan Cattell

  Copy of 'The Prosider' magazine with article 'The Glen' by Alan Cattell (Winter 2011)
• D3-114: Shipley Glen Fairground

  Typed page ' Shipley Glen Fairground' by Roger Clarke from The Saltaire Senital 31st Jan. 2013
• D3-115: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Newscutting 'Ticket prices frozen at Tramway' Airevalley Advertiser 11th Jan 2013
• D3-116: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Laminated copy of poem 'Roses in December' by Margaret Napier
• D3-117: Chinese Sculpture

  Chinese stone sculpture found during the excavations prior to building the greenhouses for Shipley College Gardens and horticulture students. It is believed that the sculpture was part of a Japanese Village which was part of the in the 1887 Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition. It is a Taoist scuplture depicting several deities, accourding to a letter from the Deputy Keeper of Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1968. From the left the deities are the Ch'ang the Moon Queen, Ch'ih-chang the Sun King, Shou Lau the God of Longevity with his deer and the central figure is Fu Hsing or Lu Hsingthe God of happiness or weath.
• D3-118.1: Letter regarding the Chinese Scuplture

  Letter from J.G. Ayers the Deputy Keeper of Ceramics at the Victoria & Albert Museum to A Taylor from Shipley Intitute of Further Education. regarding the Chinese sculpture from the Royal Yorkshire Jubillee Exhibition of 1987. The sculpture had been discovered during building works. Information was being sought from the Victoria & Albert Museum about its origins.
• D3-118.2: Photograph sent with the letter regarding the Chinese Scuplture

  Photograph of the Chinese Sculpture sent with the letter from J.G. Ayers the Deputy Keeper of Ceramics at the Victoria & Albert Museum to A Taylor from Shipley Institute of Further Education, regarding the Chinese sculpture from the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition. On the reverse of the photograph is the stamp of the photographer and a quote from the Shipley Times about the Exhibition.
• D3-119a: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  'Flowers From The Glen' A book of poems by James Waddington (original & copy)
• D3-120: Plan of Saltaire Park

  Photocopy of a plan of Saltaire Park (1870)
• D3-121: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Newspaper cutting: 'Fun in the Glen for Generations' (25th June 1997)
• D3-130: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Copy of a postcard showing people on the Glen Tramway c.1950s
• D3-131: Roberts Park

  Photocopy of photograph (1910) and info-sheet re. Roberts Park (1971)
• D3-132: Leisure - Park & Amenities

  Postcard of the park lodge + plan of park