Items

• 2024.56.4: Trolley bus at the Midland Street depot

  Photograph of an early trolley bus, number 240, with a destination notice of 'Laisterdyke Dudley Hill. The bus is in the centre of the image. The front of the Midland Street depot in Bradford is on the right. Some houses are partly visible in teh background.
• 2024.56.5: Lister's Mill and its housing for its workers, from Lilycroft Road 1920s

  Photograph shows a wide street (Lilycroft Road) running in front of terraced houses on the left. Behind the houses, furhter down the road, can be seen Lister's Mill, a very large textile mill built in the late nineteenth century by Samuel Cunliffe Lister. A horse and cart and some children are visible on the road on the right of the image.,
• 2024.56.6: Little Horton Lane

  Photograph of a large crowd of people completely filling a square on Little Horton Lane in Bradford on 4 May 1904 during a visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales. Bunting is hung at the sides of the streets. One building has a sign 'Appleton & Co.'. People are also visible in windows and on the roofs of buildings.
• 2024.56.7: Shop on the corner of Ivegate and Kirkgate, circa 1860

  Photograph of a large, double-fronted building consisting of two shops at the corner of two streets in Bradford. A large sign 'T. Hunter' appears over the left-hand shop. A second sign 'Blackburn' appears above the shop on the right. The second shop has smaller signs 'Chemist and druggist' and 'Patent & proprietary medicines'.
• 2024.56.8: Trolley bus overtaking a horse-drawn cart, Laisterdyke, 1914

  Photograph shows a wide road with an early trolley bus on the left overtaking a horse-drawn cart laden with 4 large bales. A row of shops is visible on teh left. Both sides of teh streets are lined with people looking at the camera.
• 2024.56.9: Works outing aboard a charabanc, 1920

  Photograph shows an open top small bus full of seated people on several rows. People appear to be well-dressed. The driver in a hat is stood at the front of the vehicle.
• 2024.57: Historical Notices of Shipley, Saltaire, Idle, Windhill, Wrose, Baildon, Hawksworth, Eccleshill, Calverley, Rawdon and Horsforth

  A colllection of articles on the history and notable people in districts of Bradford and surrounding towns and villages. Includes three chapters related to Saltaire: (1) Sir Titus Salt. (2) Saltaire (3) Story's Poem on Saltaire. See also 2024.55 for a facsimile copy from 1985.
• 2024.58: The Salt Saga volume 1

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, the mill and Sir Titus Salt, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.59: The Salt Saga volume 2

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.6: Bingley - a look at the past

  History of Bingley with photographs and bried descriptions.
• 2024.60: The Salt Saga volume 3

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Saltaire village, Salts mill and Sir Titus, compiled in 1971.
• 2024.61: Scipeleia and all that

  Blue hardbacked lined notebook with handwritten notes and cuttings. Research notes about Shipley (Scipleia is an Old English spelling of Shipley) compiled in 1971.
• 2024.62: Saltaire - An album of postcards and prints

  Red album with black pages containing 104 postcards and prints of images of Saltaire
• 2024.63: Saltaire, publications on etc

  Album with plastic pockets containing miscellaneous images and loose items. Contains 26 images in the pockets with 4 loose items. Images are a mixture of buildings, people, Salt family and mill and 2 images of Compound Engines at Salts Mill together with images of the railway station. Loose items include: poster from The Yorkshire Post and Leeds Mercury October 19th 1956 titled 'Salts Saltaire Ltd, Saltaire a guide by D Larvin'; a photograph of Titus Salt House Sailors Children's Society 1966; and an envelope containing a black and white image of Saltaire and farmland.
• 2024.64: Sir Titus Salt and George Moore

  Sir Titus Salt and George Moore by James Burnley. Green hardback book with image of oil lamp. Part of The World's Workers series. Contains two biographies, one of Sir Titus Salt and the other of his contemporary George Moore who was a lace merchant and philanthropist. This particular book has a handwritten enscription on the first page. It states that the book was presented to 'Wm. Hollingsworth' as a prize for attendance at the Wesleyan Synday School in 1886. Signed by 'Thos. Townsend, Secretary'
• 2024.65: Memorandum and suggestions 1883

  Original paper, handwritten document relating to the Salt family business. The memorandum suggests an arrangement for the setting up of a fund out of the income and profits of Sir Titus Salt, Bart. and Sons Co. Ltd. The fund is designed to to pay for various liabilities on the compnay and its directors and also to provide a regular income for the share and debenture holders (largely the Salt family). A detailed intepretation of the document by local historian David King is available in item A1-125.
• 2024.66: Statement and scheme for reconstruction

  Original paper handwritten document relating to the Salt family business. The document sets out the details of the proposed takeover of Salts Mill and Saltaire village by a consortium of four Bradford businessmen: Isaac Smith, John Rhodes, John Maddocks and James Roberts. The document outlines the will of the the late Sir Titus Salt, describes the capital structure of Sir Titus Salt Bart. Sons and Co. Ltd. It also the describes the incorporation of the firm as a limited company and its recent decision to apply for voluntary liquidation. It finally outlines the proposed takeover by the consortium. A detailed intepretation of the document by local historian David King is available in item A1-125. A copy, typewritten version of the same document is available in the Denys Salt Collection as item 2018.36.3
• 2024.67: The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990 Site name Hirst Wood.

  The Schedule of Sites of Scientific Interest in West Yorkshire 1990. Site name Hirst Wood A4 photocopied typewritten documents and maps, one with 8 pages and the other has 7 pages with 2 extra maps and information about Ogden Water
• 2024.68: Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen

  Second tier sites of ecological importance in West Yorkshire. Site name Shipley Glen. 13 pages of A4 photocopied typewritten pages and maps
• 2024.69: Destination Bradford: A century of immigration

  A publication of the Bradford Heritage Recording Unit providing a brief history of various waves of immigration to the Bradford area from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Contains photographs, statistics and descriptions to tell the story of immigration to Bradford mainly associated with the development of textile industries in the area.