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Northcliffe, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Northcliffe is an area on the south side of the Aire Valley near to Saltaire. It was a site of woods, agriculture, coal mining and stone quarrying from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, In 1919 Norman Rae, a local mill owner and MP for Shipley, donated £12,500 to the local council to purchase 114 acres of Northcliffe for use by the public. It is now a park, allotments and playing fields. -
Oxenhope, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom Oxenhope is a rural village near to Haworth and Keighley in West Yorkshire. Sir James Roberts was born in Oxenhope. -
Pace Micro Technology Pace Microtechnology Ltd was a Bradford-based company that originally sold software for early Apple personal computers. During the 1980s the company began designing and manufacturing data communication modems and later satellite TV receivers and video recorders. By the late 1990s and into the 21st century, PACE collaborated with major, well-known tech giants such as BSkyB and Amstrad. This local business had become an international multi-million-pound enterprise and put Pace at the front of the digital revolution. From the late 1980s Pace based its business in Salts Mill. They became the first major tenant of local entrepreneur Jonathan Silver who purchased Salts Mill in the late 1980s following its closure as a working textile mill. The huge success of Pace and the company's presence in Salts Mill played an important role in the transformation of Saltaire from an old, decaying industrial mill and village into a thriving modern enterprise and desireable place to live. -
Parsons, Lawrence, Earl of Rosse Member of the Irish peerage, famed amateur astronomer, and large landholder in the Shipley area.
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