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• Harden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village near Bradford in West Yorkshire
• Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Harrogate is a large spa town in North Yorkshire. Harrogate was the location of a home of Catherine Salt and also of the 'Roberts' Memorial Home for Invalid and Cripple Children' gifted by Sir James Roberts to the Barnardo's organisation.
• Haworth, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Haworth is a village near to Keighley in West Yorkshire. Haworth is most famous as being the family home of the literary Brontë sisters. Sir James Roberts, owner of Saltaire and Salts Mill in the early twentieth century, bought Haworth Parsonage and gifted it to the Brontë Society for use as museum.
• Hellawell Collection
• Hellifield, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Village in West Yorkshire on the outskirts of Haworth. Site of a mill owned by Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.
• Heritage Open Days

  An annual national event in England to celebrate the country's heritage. Usually held in September over a weekend. There is usually a theme. Heritage organisations are encouraged to provide access (usually free) to site of historical interest that are usually not open to the public. In Saltaire the Heritage Open Days normally occur during the Saltaire Festival. A variety of exhibitions, tours and other events have occurred over the years, including the notorious 'Secret tunnels' tours of 2017...
• Hill, Arthur

  Arthur James Hill was a director of Salts (Saltaire) Limited when it was floated on the stock exchange and became a public company in June 1923.
• Hirst Wood, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Hirst Wood was a large estate of land on the westernmost edge of Shipley, adjacent to Saltaire.
• Hockney Collection
• Hodson, Thomas

  Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson was born in Shipley and was a warehouseman at The Conditioning House in Bradford prior to enlistment in the army during the First World War. Hodson’s Division landed in Le Harve, France in August 1915. They served in front line trenches and several battles, including the Battle of the Somme where Hodson was killed in action on the 29th July 1916. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme and on the Rolls of Honour at Nabs Wood cemetery in Shipley, St Paul’s, and St Peter’s Church in Shipley. Lance Corporal Hodson was born in 1892, son of Tom and Rosa Hodson. His service number was 13083. His medals and memorabilia from World War 1 are The ‘Pip, Squeak and Wilfred’ medals (the popular names for The 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal respectively) and a ‘Dead Man’s Penny’ which was issued to next of kin of all British and Empire service personnel killed as a result of the war. In addition, a Princess Mary Gift Fund 1914 box was a present for all those serving during Christmas 1914, the box contents included cigarettes and/or chocolate, a photo of Princess Mary and a signed card. These and other items relating to Lance Corporal Hodson are in the Saltaire Collection. In 2017, the Saltaire Collection received a donation of World War One medals belonging to Lance Corporal Thomas Hodson that were found in the cellar of a house in Saltaire. Through local news items and the help of a local historian we were able to trace his relatives who were than reunited with these medals. The family generously decided to leave these in the collection.
• Holroyd, Abraham

  Holroyd wrote a history 'Saltaire and its Founder' in 1873 that was contemporary with the building of Saltaire.
• Holywood, Down, United Kingdom

  Holywood is a town near Belfast in Northern Ireland.
• Horsfall Collection
• Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A large town in West Yorkshire. A major centre for woollen textile production during the nineteenth century.
• Ilkley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Ilkley is a market town north of Saltaire, Shipley and Baildon in North Yorkshire. Ilkley was the location of Denton Hall, a large house in its own grounds that was the home of Catherine and Isabel Salt after they moved from Milner Field in Bingley in the early twentieth century.
• Illingworth Morris and Company Limited

  Illingworth Morris was a large Textiles business. Between 1957 and 1986 it owned and operated Salts Mill.
• Illingworth, Percy

  Percy Illingworth was the Member of Parliament for Shipley in the early 20th century. He presided at the opening of a new cricket Pavillion for Saltaire Cricket Club that had been funded by Sir James Roberts.
• Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom

  Ipswich is the county town of Suffolk
• Iwakura Embassy

  The Iwakura Embassy (or Iwakura Mission) was a diplomatic mission to North America and Europe from 1871 to 1873. Leading Japanese scholars and statesmen visited major industrialised nation to raise the profile of Japan following its period of isolation that had ended in the 1850s. They were also involved in trying to renegotiate trade agreements, and also tasked with gathering information on modern industrial, educational, military and political processes and structures. In Autumn 1872 the Iwakura Embassy visited Saltaire as an example of a model industrial village and modern, integrated textile mill. They were interested in the amenities of the village as well as the mill itself.
• J. Parkinson and Son Limited

  Joseph Parkinson founded his engineering company in 1865. The business specialised in making machinery for the booming textile industry.