Saltaire Collection

Items

• 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.
• 2023.2: The life and work of Mohammed Aziz 1929-

  A personal history given by Aziz of his migrating to the United Kingdom to work in the textile industry. Aziz worked at Salts Mill in the 1980s during its last few years before closure. Aziz gave this account of his life to Saltaire Collection volunteer Maggie Smith.
• C2a-170: From Austria to Saltaire

  Booklet: 'From Austria to Saltaire - Theresa Schistal' with 3 loose photocopied photographs of Theresa Mortimer (nee Schistal). Account of Theresa Schistal travelling from Austria to Saltaire in late 1940s to work in Salts Mill.
• C3a-080: Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8

  Remarkable Journeys to Work in Salts Mill: 1947-8: Three stories of Polish people who experienced the horrors of World War2 - to later find employment in Salts Mill and new lives in the Bradford District of West Yorkshire' by Maggie Smith.
• C3b-078: The Irish Immigration into Saltaire

  An essay by Kathleen McKeating
• C4a-015.28: Exceptional journeys to work (In Saltaire), and Saltaire by numbers 1911 Census

  A4 laminated poster for Saltaire History Club for 14th February 2013. 'Exceptional journeys to work (In Saltaire)' by Maggie Smith & 'Saltaire by numbers 1911 Census by Colin Coates
• F1a-173a-b: The Italian Contribution to Shipley Textile Manufacturing The Ricciardo (Mackin) Sisters' story from 1957

  The story of Italian sisters Dora and Margherita Mackin with refrences to Velia Campbell (all nee Ricciardo). Account of their early lives in Italy and then travelling to Britain in the 1950s to work in the textile industry.