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• Venice, Italy

  Venice is a large city in the north east of Italy. The Italiante-styled chimney of the 'New Mill' extension to Salts Mill is based on the design of the Campanile, the bell tower of St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Venice was also visited by Sir James Roberts on holiday.
• Victoria Hall, Saltaire, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Originally, this building was known as The Saltaire Club and Institute, with only the main hall called Victoria Hall. Completed in 1871, it was one of the final pieces of Titus Salt’s vision of a model village, providing everything a person needs in life. The institute was intended, first and foremost, to provide a social gathering space for residents (rather than a pub) and, secondly, as an educational institute. The building housed rooms for billiards, bagatelle, chess and drafts, reading, classrooms, a library, a laboratory and a large hall for lectures and concerts. It also housed the Schools of Art and Science, which later moved to the Exhibition Building. Today, the building is managed by the Salt Foundation and provides a venue for community events and weddings.
• W. J. Morley & Son
• Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Wakefield is a city in West Yorkshire. It was traditionally a market town but became a centre for textile production during the industrial revolution.
• Washington D.C., United States of America

  Washington D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America.
• Watson Collection
• West Riding County Council

  The council was the county-level administrative body that contained Shipley and Saltaire. It was abolished in 1974 as part of the local government reorganisation. Much of its responsibilities passed to the new West Yorkshire County Council which functioned until 1986.
• Whitaker Collection
• White Collection
• Wilkinson Collection
• Wilkinson, Tom

  Tom Wilkinson was the head of the design office for Salts (Saltaire) Limited, at Salts Mill, from the 1950s. Tom kindly donated a number of his technical design books to the Saltaire Collection. These included a work-book used to develop new designs.
• Wilsden, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  Wilsden is a village in West Yorkshire about 6 miles west of Bradford.
• Wilson, Samuel

  Samuel Wilson was Titus Salt's Cashier. He spoke at the major occasion in St George's Hall, Bradford in 1865, when Sir Titus was presented with the famous bust which now stands in hte entrance of Saltaire United Reformed Church.
• Woods, Clive

  Clive Woods gave up his life as a teacher and moved to Saltaire in 1986 to continue his researches on Titus Salt and his model village. He opened a bookshop, worked for a while as a caretaker at Victoria Hall, and became a well-known guide, leading tours around Saltaire. Clive helped found the Village Society and became a vigorous campaigner to preserve Saltaire and its heritage. In the late 1980s he was part of the successful campaign against plans to build a major trunk road through Saltaire. He also worked to get Saltaire listed by English Heritage, work that helped prevent the village from being recklessly changed. In the late 1990s he became a leader of the campaign, supported by the local MP and Bradford Council, to have Saltaire recognised by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. This was awarded in 2001, a success widely hailed as the most important for Saltaire since its foundation 150 years before. Sadly, Clive died in 2007 but his legacy is a Saltaire preserved for the future. The Saltaire Collection is proud to host his archive of research documents, books, leaflets and photographs.
• Woolley Collection
• World Heritage Day

  World Heritage Day is an informal name for International Day for Monuments and Sites, nominally 18 April. Annual events are organised around this date to celebrate the concept of UNESCO World Heritage sites, such as Saltaire. In Saltaire, events are often held at the weekend near to 18 April. The actual celebrations vary from year to year, but have included heritage exhibitions, small festivals based in Roberts Park, and public processions at dusk featuring a range of lights.
• Wright, Joseph

  Born into very humble circumstances in Idle, Bradford. Basic school education was at the Salt Factory School, Saltaire. Wright went on to study at the University of Heidelberg and eventually became a professor of philology at the University of Oxford and an eminent linguist.
• York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

  York is city, established in ancient times, in North Yorkshire.
• Yorkshire Observer

  A local newspaper published in Bradford during the early to mid twentieth century.