Items

• 2022.16: Bradford Trades Council- 100 years -1872-1972

  Bradford Trades Council- 100 years -1872-1972, by Mary Ashraf
• 2022.21: Memories of Bradford: Wonderfully nostalgic images of Bradford people, places and events, 1930 to 1970.

  A book of black and white photographs mainly from the commercial archive of Wood Visual Communications, Bradford. The book includes an 'At work' section which has several images of people involved in various parts of the textiles industry.
• 2022.29: Chasing the sixpence: The lives of Bradford mill folk

  Paperback book. History of textile workers in Bradford during the period 1920s to 1970s. Accounts of their working and living conditions based on interviews with dozens of former mill workers.
• 2022.3: An Italian Immigrant Abroad 1950

  Handwitten booklet donated by the author Assuntina De Matteis during a surprise trip back to Saltaire organised by her daughter Rossana Pinto. This is a reminiscence of leaving the Italian village of Montefalcione on 20 March 1950 to travel to Britain to find work. Describes arriving in Britain and travelling to Yorkshire by train. Brief description of working in a mill (unidentified) in Shipley where it was 'very noisy'. Also describes staying in a nearby hostel with other Italian women similarly employed in the mills. Includes copies and transcriptions of postcards sent from Assuntina to her mother as she travelled to Britain. Also inlcudes copies of photographs of Assuntina, friends and of her husband who she met in Britain.
• 2022.30: The Great Paternalist - Titus Salt, The Growth of Ninteenth-Century Bradford by Jack Reynolds

  A general history of the story of Titus Salt and the origins of the textile history in the Bradford area - Includes hand-written-notes notes written by Phillip Barlow in preparation for the reprint and addition ainformation of the book 'Balgarnie's Salt' by 'Barlo & Shaw'
• 2022.31: Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries 1850-1939 by J.A. Jowitt and A.J. McIvor

  Various aspects of the textie trade covering: Employers, trade Unions and Women in textiles.
• 2022.34: Model Industrial Communties in Mid-Nineteenth Century Yorkshire- Edited by J.A.Jowitt

  A series of papers by various authors on various 'model villages' in Yorkshire - Including Saltaire, Copy , Ackroydon,West Hill Park etc.
• 2022.35: Textile History 1968-70 - volume 1. Edited by K.G. Ponting

  Chapters on various textile businesses including 'Titus Salt's Day Book 1834-7 by J.R. Iredale. Includes black and white photographs
• 2022.37: Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt Bart. by Abraham Holroyd

  A book of text with black and white prints relating the life story of Sir Titus Salt, by a man who new him personally. Includes information on Saltaire Societies and Institutions, and the text of 'A Song of Saltaire'
• 2022.38: Saltaire and its Founder, Sir Titus Salt Bart. by Abraham Holroyd

  A book of text with black and white prints relating the life story of Sir Titus Salt, by a man who new him personally. Includes information on Saltaire Societies and Institutions, and the text of: 'A Song of Saltaire'
• 2022.40: 'Sir Titus Salt - George Moore' by James Burnley

  A book of text relating the life story of Sir Titus Salt, and George Moore, a self-made man. The frontispiece shows photographs of Sit Titus Salt and George Moore
• 2022.41: The Journal 1961-62

  The 1961-62 Annual of the Bradford Textile Society. Contains text and black and white and coloured photographs and drawings, plus advertisements. Contains several articles on various aspects of the Yorkshire textile trade. Also a loose copy of the Society's syllabus and application form for the 1962-63 season
• 2022.42: 'Saltaire - the origins of a model industrial community'

  A collection of 20 reproductions of old documents, prints and photographs relating to Saltaire
• 2022.43: 'Poverty and Progress - Social conditions in early and mid ninteenth century Bradford'

  A collection of 20 reproductions of old documents, prints and photographs relating to the history of Bradford - also contains an index list of the documents and a paper by G.Firth on 'Poverty and Progress Social conditions in early and mid ninteenth century Bradford'
• 2022.47: 'Bradford Chamber of Commerce Centenary 1851-1951'

  A book consisting mainly of advertisements relating to the textile trade, including one for 'Salts (Saltaire) Ltd'. Plus some articles, including one on 'Textile Machinery Through The Ages'. and 'Some Notable Industrial Enterprises'
• 2022.48: Overview of Bradford 1889

  A reprint of a pictorial 'aerial' view of Bradford, possibly taken from a book by William Cudworth
• 2022.49: 'The Ryburn Map of Victorian Bradford' by Elvira Willmott

  A reprint of an old map of Bradford 1871, drawn up by Dixon & Hindle, land agent and surveyors, with addition text by Elvira Willmott
• 2022.50: 'Bradford 1849'

  A reprint of an old map of Bradford 1849. Based on an OS map-Yorkshire Sheet 216. Produced by 'Heritage Cartography-Reproduction Victorian Maps
• 2022.53: Bradford Chartism 1838-1840 by A.J.Peacock

  A history of the Chartist Movement in Bradford (The book also includes a loose, blue index card with notes by Phillip Barlow ?) Includes reference to Titus Salt
• 2022.54: Joseph Wright by Dorothy White

  A brief hsitory on the life of Professor Joseph Wright - The Thackley-born editor of the English Dialect Dictionary who had some primary education and early employment in Salatire