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Living in Fountain St #Bradford 1838-9, Branwell #Bronte of #Haworth frequented the George on Market St & the Queen, Bridge St to wet his whistle with fellow artists. #DownTheHatch
Suddenly #OTD 1887 #TitusSalt Jnr, supporter of cremation, found in the billiard room at #MilnerField. Heart failure aged 44. Laid to rest in #Saltaire #UnitedReformedChurch
#OTD 1949, a train from Carlisle to Birmingham derailed between #Shipley & #Saltaire nr Salts Mill. No-one hurt. #RailwayAccident
1908 launching the “Dawn” on the #LeedsLiverpoolCanal from the boat yard at Dockfield, #Shipley not far from #Grade2Listed Junction Bridge (1774). #Heritage
Born #OTD 1850 #RobertLouisStevenson boarded at Burlington House School, #Isleworth in 1863 where Medina Griffiths Headteacher of #Saltaire Girls High School later became Head.
Before St Paul’s was built on an acre of land donated by the #LordOfTheManor, #CofE services in #Shipley were held at Mr Denny’s, now The Old House at Home. Consecrated #OTD 1826 #AllSaintsDay
#Bradford mass poisoning #OTD 1858. 20 dead, 200+ dangerously ill from peppermints made with #arsenic bought in Baildon Bridge #Shipley & sold by Humbug Billy. Acquitted of #manslaughter
Tidier coiffure for the younger #TitusSalt as depicted on the 1856 #birthday bust, his present from the workforce, in #Saltaire #UnitedReformedChurch. Once a #baronet, not so bothered. #NationalBeardDay
Born #OTD 1841 in #Bradford Fanny Salt had TB & despite wintering in the French #spatown of Pau & #StLeonards #EastSussex, she died just before her 20th birthday at home, Methley Hall. Immortalised in #Saltaire.
1,000 on the 1864 Salts Mill works outing went by train to #Scarborough, #TitusSalt’s favourite resort where son George showed off his super yacht, Oithona. Victorian #Tycoon