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Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition site, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom The main site of the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition held in 1887 in Saltaire. -
Salt Grammar School The successor school to the Salt High Schools following the education reforms of 1944. It subsequently became the comprehensive Sir Titus Salt school and is now located just outside Saltaire on the north side of Roberts Park. -
Salt High School The Salt High School opened in 1876. Initially it occupied temporary accommodation, mainly in the Saltaire Club and Institute. In 1878 it moved into the building on Victoria Road that had originally been built to house the Factory School for Salts Mill. The High School was open to both boys and girls although they were educated separately. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original buildingis part of Shipley College, a further education institution. -
Salt High School building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom The Salt School building on Victoria Road opened in 1868 as the location for the Factory School associated with Salts Mill. Before this, the Factory School was housed in the Dining Hall further down the road. There were both day scholars and half-timers, who would work at the mill for half a day and attend school for the other half. Boys entered on the right and girls on the left and the school was designed to cater for 750 children initially. In 1874, there were 806 half-timers and 454 day scholars, with an average attendance of 665. The schools were constructed with state-of-the-art technology: hot water central heating, gas lighting, and tip-up lavatories. In 1878, the school moved to the newly-built Albert Road Board School (today Saltaire Primary School). The Victoria Road building became the Salt High School catering for both girls and boys. The High School eventually moved to a new site on the far side of Roberts Park. Today the original building, along with the Exhibition Building, Dining Hall and the Jonathan Silver building, forms Shipley College, a further education institution. Outside the building there are two lions and two more on the opposite side of the road. Their names can just be made out, inscribed on their pedestals: Peace, War, Vigilance and Determination. Local legend has it that these were originally constructed for Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square. This is, unfortunately, almost certainly a myth. -
Salt, Caroline, Lady Born Caroline Whitlam. Wife of Sir Titus Salt who she married in 1830. -
Salt, Catherine Catherine was born in 1846 into one family of textile magnates, the Crossleys of Halifax, and married into another when Titus Salt Junior became her husband in 1866. In some ways Catherine was quite conventional, raising four children and running her privileged Victorian household, including hosting the Prince of Wales and later his sister Princess Beatrice at her home. But Catherine clearly had deep and wide interests in social and educational issues, particularly the education of girls. She helped found Bradford Girls Grammar School and served for many years on its board, and also the board of the Salt Schools. -
Salt, Daniel Daniel was the father of Sir Titus Salt. He initally worked as a drysalter and as a sheep farmer. He married Grace Smithies of Morley, near Leeds on 5 July 1802. Between 1813 and 1819 the family lived at The Manor House in Morley. From the 1920s up to 1833 Daniel ran a textile business of 'Daniel Salt and Son' with Titus. They made a lot of use of Donskoi wool from Russi in the production of worsted cloth. -
Salt, Denys Denys Salt was the Great-grandson of Sir Titus Salt, Grandson of Titus Salt Junior and Son of Harold Salt. For more than 50 years, Denys was the member of the Salt family who did most to sustain the family’s links with Saltaire. His encouragement to generations of historians, his contributions to local archives, libraries and museums, and his support of activities in Saltaire were of invaluable benefit to the local community. Denys donated an important set of documents, photographs and other objects to the Saltaire Collection, most concerning the Salt family. -
Salt, Grace Grace was the mother of Sir Titus Salt. She was born Grace Smithies and lived in Morley near Leeds. She married Daniel Salt on 5 July 1802. -
Salt, Isabel Isabel Salt, granddaughter of Sir Titus Salt, was the only daughter of four children of Titus Salt Junior and his wife Catherine. By the age of twelve her family had entertained two visits of Royalty and mourned the death of her father. By the late 1890s Isabel had started to work for the welfare of the poor and the independence and equality of women. She became continually active in the Women’s Liberal Association and became a prominent speaker on getting women’s right to vote, although she clearly stated that she was a suffragist not a suggragette. Isabel was also a committed and campaigning pacifist, a subject that became highly contentious during the First World War. Many of Isabel's campaigning speeches and letters to the newspapers are recorded in her own newscutting books, part of the Saltaire Collection alongside travel diaries, letters, photographs, clothing and an intriguing tin of acorns.
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