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@bantam84 The eccentric #Japanese Gardens were very popular with follies made out of clinker, arches, a ruined castle & small boating lake; all on #Shipley #Saltaire & #Baildon’s doorsteps. More information attached.
#Frozen woman at the #Japanese Gardens on #Shipley Glen nr #Saltaire. Built by Tom Hartley friend of #TitusSalt Jnr in the 1880s & missed since the 1970s. #WeatherWarning
Jack & The Beanstalk at Windhill #Shipley, Cinderella & Humpty Dumpty in #GradeIIListed Victoria Hall, #Saltaire. #LookBehindYou #PantoDay
The #Wesleyan Chapel built with £50 on land from #TitusSalt 150yrs ago, replaced 1972 by the #Saltaire #Methodist Church. Celebrating Xmas 2018 #MerrilyOnHigh
Joshua Fletcher’s factory in #Leeds made bottles for his Fletcher’s Sauces, produced at the Airedale Works in #Shipley until 1915. Good on #Xmas dinner, discontinued in the 1990s. #OldBottles
Day 1 #Saltaire Living #AdventCalendar at Myrtle Place, home to Abraham Broadbent b.1868 & 5 siblings. Worked in Salts Mill, became a nationally acclaimed #sculptor: his work at the #V&A & #Eton College. Should have a #BluePlaque
Bradford’s annual #HorseFair was held on #StAndrewsDay on Bridge St nr the Bowling Green Hotel until 1866 when the Council banned street fairs. #PartyPooper. 20yrs later the St Andrew’s Society at #Bradford was formed.
Did Elizabeth Windsor know about the #priceless 1953 tribute from loyal subjects in a #Saltaire side street on her succession to the throne? #HRH should be told.