Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2022.67: Milner Field Estate

  A photocopy of the Sales Brochure for the planned Sale by Gaunt and Foster of the Milner Field Estate in Bingley and the Coach Road land in Baildon in 1922
• A2-001: Milner Field Estate

  Description of main physical features of Milner Field Estate, including housing, woodland etc.
• A2-004: Milner Field Estate

  List of the acreage of the Milner Field Estate May 1960
• A2-008a: Milner Field, For Sale

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date.
• A2-009a: Milner Field Estate plan

  Plan of Estate from sale catalogue, showing the entire estate for the 1922 sale and the lot numbers
• A2-028: Salt Family - Residences

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date. This copy includes image of the inside of one of the gate houses and a newspaper cutting 'Sir Titus Salt - A man of Two statues' taken from the Times and Express April 20th 1966.
• A2-030: Milner Field for Sale

  Sale catalogue for the sale of Milner Field Estate, prepared by C.H. Lord - Estate Agent, for sale by Gaunt Foster which did not go ahead as planning permission was not granted. The catalogue includes image of the house both externally and internally at the time of sale, with some images from the Salts family. The details include who the Architect was and who owned the land prior to the Salts. However the Salts family sold the estate in 1903 to James Roberts, but there is no mention of him in in this document. The document looks later in style than the dated 1922 document but further research is requied to establish an accurate date.
• A2-055a-b: Mortgage for Milner Field

  One Transfer agreement and a second official duplicate copy of the Agreement for the purchase of Milner Field Estate with the furniture * and Declaration of the interests of the purchasers, dated 20th December 1888. Between Catherine Salt with Messrs Henry Crossley and Gordon Locksley Salt. The document is signed and sealed by both parties.
• A2-057: Contract relating to the Sale of Milner Field Estate

  Preliminary agreement of the sale of Milner Field Estate from Mrs Catherine Salt to James Roberts, this lays out the full agreement of sale and includes a schedule of items not to be included in the sale.
• A2-058a: Sale catalogue for Milner Field

  Original Sale catalogue for Milner Field. On the Frontispiece it states 'Milner Field Estate, Saltaire, Yorkshire. Plans, Particulars & Conditions of Sale of the above estate comprising Freehold Residential Mansion and Grounds, farms, woodlands, building site &c containing approximately three hundred acres. Will be offered for sale by Public Auction at the Grate Northern Victoria Hotel, Bridge Street Bradford on Thursday, 12th October 1922 at 3.30pm by A Gadie & Son Auctioneers and Valuers... Bradford. Surveyor: Wm. Illingworth ... Bradford. Solicitor Gaunt Foster & Co ... Bradford. The brochure includes particulars of sale and photographs of the house and grounds (not the farm) with a plan of the house as it was in 1922.
• A2-058d: Salt Family Residences.

  Map of the Milner Field estate, showing divisons of outline permission for house construction on the Coach Road
• B1-355-101: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  J.H.Raby to Salts re. planning regulations and zoning of Milner Field Estate
• B1-355-102: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Salts to Morley asking for opinion on the demands of the buyer of the remaining Milner Fields estate in Bingley
• B1-355-103: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Salts to Raby re. details of the Bingley land owned by the mill after sale of the Coach Road land to Shipley Urban District Council
• B1-355-104: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  J.H.Raby to Salts re.dispute on the price for the remaining Milner Field estate to a potential purchaser
• B1-355-105: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Salts to Morley re. dispute with Raby's client over the purchase of the Milner Field estate
• B1-355-106: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Salts to Morley suggesting a meeting with Raby
• B1-355-107: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Central Land Board form for payment of £5,800 under Town & Country Planning Act 1954
• B1-355-108: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Morley to Salts re. payment of £6,699 4s 10d from Central Land Board for land sold to Shipley Urban District Council & WRCC
• B1-355-109: Salts Mill: Morley & Woodhouse Files Messrs Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. ( Milner Field Estate).

  Morley to Salts re. payment of £21 for professional fees