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• Shipley College

  Shipley College is a college of further and adult education based in several buildings in Saltaire. Opening in 1969, it was a successor to the Technical School based in the Exhibition Building. As well as this building the College also uses the former Salt High School and Dining Hall premises on Victoria Road, parts of Victoria Hall, and the new, purpose-built Jonathan Silver Building on Exhibition Road.
• Shipley College Centenary

  Today Shipley College occupies several buildings in Saltaire. The College's origins lie in the Technical and Art School based in the Exhibition Building in Saltaire. Briefly named the School of Art and Science, the new school was conceived by Titus Salt Junior and opened in 1887. The 100th anniversary of foundation of the College, and its predecessors, was celebrated in 1987.
• Shipley College Collection
• Shipley Education Committee

  The local organisation responsible for overseeing the provision of education in the Shipley area, which included Saltaire. Succeeded the Shipley Schools Board.
• Shipley Glen & Tramway Collections
• Shipley Glen, Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  A green space of woods and open moorland on the valley side to the North of Saltaire. In the later nineteenth century it became the site of pleasure grounds including a toboggan run, switchback roller coaster and other amusements. It was very popular with the residents of nearby Saltaire, Shipley and Baildon as a place of recreation.
• Shipley Times and Express

  A local newspaper published in Shipley
• Shipley Urban District Council

  Shipley Urban District Council was the local authority for the Shipley area, including Saltaire, from 1895. In 1974 it was abolished in a reorganisation of local government and Shipley became administered as part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan Council.
• Shipley, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Town in West Yorkshire about 3 miles west of Bradford. Became heavily industrialised and expanded rapidly during the nineteenth century. Saltaire was built about 1 mile to the West of the town centre. Saltaire has always been part of Shipley for local government purposes.
• Shuttleworth Collection
• Silver, Jonathan

  Jonathan Silver was a Bradford-born entrepreneur who bought the vacant Salts Mill in 1987. He led the regeneration of the Mill into a thriving commercial, retail, leisure and artistic centre.
• Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons & Co Limited

  Salts Mill was originally owned and operated by Titus Salt, Sons & Company. In 1869 Titus Salt was awarded a baronetcy, and the company was renamed Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Company Limited. Although there was a change of ownership in 1893 and again in 1918 the name was retained until 1923 when the owning company was floated on the stock exchange as Salts (Saltaire) Limited.
• Sir Titus Salt's Hospital

  Sir Titus Salt’s Hospital was opened in Saltaire in September 1868 and provided crucial medical help many decades before the foundation of the National Health Service.
• Sir Titus Salt's Hospital building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Titus Salt built an infirmary in Saltaire to care for the village residents. It had enough wards and beds for 27 patients, a dispensary and a surgery for treating workers injured in Salts Mill. The hospital was taken over by the NHS in 1948. It was sold in 1974 and became a private nursing home. It has since been converted to private residences.
• Skegness, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

  Skegness is a coastal town in Lincolnshire. In the nineteenth century Skegness bercame a popular seaside holiday destination for people from West Yorkshire.
• Slaithwaite, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Slaithwaite is a town in West Yorkshire about 8 miles from Huddersfield. It was the location for several textile businesses from the nineteenth century onwards. Slaithwatie was the birth place of Donald Hanson, one of the last managing directors of Salts Mill as a textile factory.,
• Smith Collection
• Smith, Isaac

  Isaac Smith was a member of a consortium with James Roberts, John Rhodes and John Maddocks who purchased Sir TItus Salt Bart. and Sons Limited from the Salt family in 1892/93.
• St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, United Kingdom

  Seaside resort in southern England. Location of a school attended by Shipley textiles businessman, MP and philanthropist SIr Norman Rae.
• Stables building, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Originally the stables for Salts Mill. Now converted to residences.