Saltaire Collection

Items

• 2018.16: Mr G Armstrong, Long Service Certificate

  'Coronation Year The Yorkshire Observer Roll of Honour' Long Service Certificate awarded to Mr G Armstrong, for employment at Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, from 1907 to Coronation Day, 1953.
• 2018.47: The Victorian Town Child

  A book covering the life of children in the Victoran Age
• 2018.9.2.3.1: Wage and Household Account Books

  Two Wages Books for Mabel Mary Hutchinson at Springwood, Oxted (1918-1968)
• 2018.9.2.3.2: Wage and Household Account Books

  Household Account Book (1953-1961). Household Account Book contains loose flyer for public meeting of League of Nations Union & Federal Union, with speakers' topics on 'The Industrial Problem in the Post-War World' and 'Federation: Peace Aim and War Weapon'.
• 2018.9.2.3.3: Wage and Household Account Books

  Small booklet of 'papier poudre' papers for the skin
• 2018.9.2.3.4: Wage and Household Account Books

  Envelope containing parchment papers for vacuum flask use
• 2019.54.2a-b: Worker at a printers

  Photograph of Lily Muschamp (1898-1967) aged 17 working at a printers in Stead Street, Shipley. Lily's son and his wife Ivy (nee Severs) ran a shop in Victoria Road during the 1950s.
• 2019.57.1: Dorson Firth

  Mounted photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe
• 2019.57.1.1: Dorson Firth

  Laminated photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe
• 2019.57.2: Dorson Firth

  Board-mounted photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe, with 4 other unidentfied men
• 2019.57.2.1: Dorson Firth

  Laminated photograph of Dorson Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe, with 4 other unidentfied men
• 2019.57.3: Tom Firth

  Photograph of Tom Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe with members of the Saltaire Rifle Volunteers
• 2019.57.3.1: Tom Firth

  Enlarged laminated copy of a postcard of a photograph of Tom Firth, Gamekeeper of Northcliffe with members of the Saltaire Rifle Volunteers
• 2019.59: Textile Voices: a century of mill life

  A book by Tim Smith and Olive Howarth of Bradford Heritage Recording Unit. Contains reminiscences of textiles workers about working in mills around Bradford, as recorded by the Unit. Illustrated with photographs of mills, workers and the streets of Bradford and nearby towns
• 2019.60: Here To Stay

  Here To Stay-Bradford's South Asian communities (A pictorial guide) by Bradford Heritage Recording Unit
• 2020.2.10: The Worsted Overlooker's Handbook

  This copy of 'The Worsted Overlooker's Handbook'. shows calculations, rules and tables useful for a worsted overlooker. It has details about Warping, Spinning, Yarns and Weft. Handwritten inscription inside front cover: 'William Gale, Burnside MIll (Swan Hotel), Addingham. Nov. 8th 1905'. The booklet was used by Harold Kendall during his time at Salts Mill
• 2020.22: Photos of William Firth working at Salts Saltaire Limited together with his retirement photos

  William Firth photos working at Salts Mill 1. Small black and white photograph showing 4 workmen outside the front of Salts Mill, two of whom are named as Albert and Billy Firth 2. Close up black and white photograph of five workmen and the Salts Saltaire Limited lorry. Two men are named as Ernest Sellers and Billy Firth 3. Black and white photograph of the same five workmen standing in front of the Salts Saltaire Limited lorry 4. Black and white photograph of William Firth winching bales of wool in the yard of Salts Mill. On the reverse side the photographer 'J.E. Tate 4 Rhodes Street Shipley Tele. 56736' is listed 5. Black and white photograph of William Firth leaning against a Salts Saltaire Limited lorry 6. Coloured photograph of William Firth leaning against a green Salts Saltaire Limited lorry William Firth 50 years at Salts Mill 7. Black and white photograph of William Firth and his wife at his long service presentation for 50 years service working at Salts. The reverse says 'J. Norman Preston & Co. photographer Bingley 12th May 1972' 8. Black and white photograph of William Firth taken at a presentation at Salts Mill in April 1967. The reverse says 'J. Norman Preston & Co. photographer Bingley 19th April 1967' William Firth, son of Harry Firth, worked for 50 years at Salts Saltaire Limited. Other members of his family also worked at Salts Mill. Albert Firth, his brother, worked for eighteen years at Salts. His sister Nancy worked for fourteen years. William worked in the transport department/yarn warehouse. he drove the salts wagon between Saltaire and Uddingston, Lanarkshire
• 2021.18: Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl

  Reminiscences of a Bradford Mill Girl by Maggie Newbery. The story of an East Riding girl who comes to work in a Bradford Mill
• 2021.23: Regrave's Factories, Truck & Shops Acts

  Regrave's Factories, Truck & Shops Acts by John Thompson and Harold R. Rogers - Relates to industrial working conditions and laws in the 1940s
• 2022.31: Employers and Labour in the English Textile Industries 1850-1939 by JA Jowitt and AJ McIvor

  Various aspects of the textie trade covering: Employers, trade Unions and Women in textiles.