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#TitusSalt Jnr released 9,000 trout into the beck at #MilnerField, 4,000 into the #RiverAire nr #Saltaire & 2,000 into his father’s lake at his Crow Nest mansion Lightcliffe, nr #Halifax. #Conservation in 1870
@artistsmakers @thegentleauthor @cultauthor @soundcube @caravangallery @ludicrooms @philkirby @russbravo @betterussell The 1826 St Paul’s Church #Shipley in Yorkshire has bells made at the Whitechapel foundry.
1876 after visiting their eldest son in #Leicestershire infirm #TitusSalt & Caroline went to #Kensington where eldest daughter Amelia & husband Henry Wright JP, deacon at the local Congregational Chapel lived. #FarewellTour
Suffering from heart trouble, Sir #TitusSalt of #Saltaire, self-declared #BagOfBones, an invalid using a bath-chair, joined the host above #OTD 1876 at home in Crow Nest #Lightcliffe nr #Halifax.
#CharlesDickens wrote a letter home about Bradford #OTD 1854, the year he visited #Saltaire & read to 3,700 in St George’s Hall #Bradford. #AChristmasCarol
Popping out for last minute gifts and provisions in #Saltaire & #Shipley? In the nick of time #ShopLocal #XmasEve
How last minute #XmasEve shopping in #Bradford’s Kirkgate used to look like. #SeasonsGreetings
Sweets at #Xmas 1930s to 1960s were often in tins with #Dickensian scenes, like these made by E I & Co of #Shipley. #BarkisIsWilling #Vintage #Collectables
#OTD St Thomas’ Day the poor went a-thomasing, children in #Saltaire queued for a gift from #TitusSalt & were counted twice to make sure no-one had more than one. #ShortestDay #WinterSolstice