Saltaire

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Selection of collections/documents for Saltaire held at WYAS Bradford

Catalogue Reference	Date	Description
12D75	1873-1973	Saltaire Albert Road Schools Records, Log books and Shipley School Board visitors' book 1875-1903
73D80	1938-1965	Shipley Saltaire Road School Log books
38D98	1875-1898	Shipley Baker Street County Infants School (formerly Shipley Central Board School), log books Log books 2 items
BBD 1/1/31	1920	Bradford Borough Council Town Clerk, papers re Bradford Extension Bill 1920 Including plans and photographs showing existing local authority boundaries; photograph albums of insanitary housing in Shipley, Saltaire and Windhill c40 boxes
BBD 1/1/108	Late 19th century - 20th century	Bradford Borough Council Town Clerk, papers re Sir Titus Salt's charity Including copy deed of endowment 1877, financial statements 1880-1905, hospital bye-laws 1910, leaflet with history of hospital 1945 1 box
BMT/SH 3/8	1870-1950	Sir Titus Salt Charities, records Including Saltaire Club and Institute minutes 1870-1877, charity minutes 1891-1948, correspondence etc re Sir Titus Salt's Hospital and Schools 1911-1950
BMT/SH 6	1857-1974	Shipley Urban District Council, Planning Department records Including registers of building plans 1857-1974, plans reports to committee 1947-1955, building plans 1857-1974
BMT/SH 7	c19th century - 20th century	Shipley Urban District Council, Architects' Department records Comprising series of plans of Shipley mainly consisting of architects' plans of council buildings and plans of road improvements; also with a township map of Windhill 1865 and plan of Saltaire 1860s
40D76 2/10	1865-1959	Saltaire (W) Chapel, records Including register 1868-1896, collection journals 1887-1948, finance committee minutes 1938-1954, leaders' minutes 1893-1944, stewards' accounts 1905-1042, seat rent ledgers 1868-1926, Sunday School minutes 1868-1955, treaurers' accounts 1865-1902, trustees' cash books 1900-1959, trustees' minutes 1865-1902 and Band of Hope minutes 1912-1932
40D76 2/11	1840-1961	Shipley Low Lane/Saltaire Road (PM) Chapel, records Including baptism register 1840-1960, Saltaire Road finance committee minutes 1917-1934, leaders' minutes 1933-1960, trustees' minutes 1871-1962 and deeds and correspondence 1887-1961
9D77	20th century	William Byles, editor of Bradford Observer, letters 1833-1883 (photocopies) Including mainly political correspondence with reference to Titus Salt, Robert Milligan, George Hadfield, Richard Cobden and William Busfield and John Bright
31D78	1868	Saltaire Almshouses, Bible
1D78/104	1870	Plan of Saltaire Park
31D80	1898-1902	Stuart Brothers Ltd, spinners and silk manufacturers, Saltaire, cash book
18D84	1953	Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, textile manufacturers, Saltaire, employees handbook And centenary pamphlet
1D87	c1930-1968	Saltaire, The Salt Grammar School, ms. history; Bingley, miscellaneous poems; Bradford, miscellaneous bills 1 box
3D87	1871-1914	Shipley and Saltaire, railway plans 1 box
27D87	1899-1939	Saltaire (Primitive Methodist) Chapel and Sunday School, records Including Sunday school accounts 1899-1921 and minutes 1900-1911, choir minutes 1919-1925; Young Men's Institute accounts 1926-1931, cricket club accounts 1928-1936, Men's Fireside accounts 1935-1939, Band of Hope attendance register c1930 1 box
28D87	1946-1955	Saltaire Conversazioni Charity, accounts and letters
29D87	1870-1910	Saltaire Institute and Salts Schools, records, with miscellaneous Salt family papers 2 boxes
48D87/1	1881-1985	Salts (Saltaire) Limited, textile manufacturers, Saltaire Including private ledgers 1898-1984, cash books 1962-1974, administration 1889-1978, directors' minutes 1896-1977, register of directors and secretaries 1923-1983, seal books 1881-1963, wage books 1918-1977, legal 1923-1966, plant and property 1923-1983, promotional material 1899-1982, sales, production and purchase 1914-1979, register of share members 1881-1907, miscellaneous financial 1898-1984
52D87	1950-1979	Shipley, Saltaire and Windhill, historical notes and newspaper cuttings 1 box
11D88	c1871-1968	Saltaire Institute and Salts Schools, records 2 boxes
2D88	1976-1977	Sir Titus Salt Centenary Committee, file 1 item
4D89	20th century	Saltaire Milner Field estate, sale catalogue, early 20th century (photocopy) 1 item
55D89	1907-1929	Salts Mill, Saltaire, overlookers' note book And specimen pages from tenancy register 2 items
23D90	1979	Saltaire and Shipley, Charity Commission scheme re charities Relating to Salt High School Foundation, Saltaire Institute, Shipley Technical School and The Old Salts Exhibition Trust Fund, all part of the former Sir Titus Salt Charity 1 item
67D90	20th century	Saltaire Bath House, drawings by P W Price prior to demolition c1938 (photocopies) 1 item
80D90	20th century	Saltaire Village Society, printed ephemera Re Saltaire
17D91/2	1867-1906	Saltaire (Wesleyan Methodist) Chapel (addnl), records Including accounts for building of Chapel 1867-1870, collection book 1868-1886, poor stewards' accounts 1868-1906 2 boxes
7D92/13	1884-1898	Saltaire (Wesleyan Methodist) Chapel, marriage register
72D92	1857-1991	Saltaire United Reformed Church, records Including church record books with baptisms 1859-1913, marriages 1861-1902, church meeting minutes 1857-1905 and roll of church members 1857-1907; rolls of church members 1857-1970, registers of attendance at communion 1857-1966, church meeting minutes 1857-1959, deacons' minutes 1875-1965, financial committee minutes 1896-1965, buildings committee minutes 1890-1892, seats and vestibule minutes 1890-1891, music committee minutes 1890-1891, jubilee celebrations minutes 1906-1907, church choir minutes 1920-1952, Young Men's Institute minutes 1926-1939 and 1947, district visiting society minutes 1928-1939, bazaar minutes 1937-1962, post-war reconstruction and war memorial minutes 1942-1950, financial 1879-1970, collection accounts 1901-1971, administration 1857-1967, year books 1870-1946, Sunday school 1857-1942 with register of scholars' 1857-1865 and plans by architects Lockwood and Mawson 1874, choir 1890-1980, printed matter 1895-1991 14 boxes
9D94/1	1851-1984	Salts (Saltaire) Limited, textile manufacturers, Salts Mills, records Including financial 1911-1966, administration 1929-1981, visitors' books 1966-1981, directors' reports 1924-1944, memoranda and articles of association 1949-1964, employment 1873-1984, legal 1902-1972, plant and property 1851-1976, promotional 1878-1983 with photographs of visit of George VI 1937, sales, production and purchase 1918-1979, papers re shares 1923-1961; also with papers re Sir Titus Salt and his family 1861-1981, Milner Field estate, Bingley 1873-1976 and historical material re Saltaire village 1903-1976
7D90	c1990	Saltaire buildings, drawings by P W Price (photocopies) 1 item
39D94	1939-1954	Shipley Saltaire Road Methodist Church, printed ephemera Programmes, posters, orders of service and other printed ephemera 1 bdl
68D95	1908	Saltaire, site plan of Almshouses in Victoria Road Copy of plan referred to in deed dated 1887 1 item
15D96	1906-1936	Salts (Saltaire) Ltd, textile manufacturers, Saltaire, pattern books Containing samples of material 4 items
53D00	1932-1999	Wycliffe Church of England Middle School, Shipley, records Includes admission register 5 boxes (0.10m) Some records closed for 30 years