Maria Glot Saltaireさんのイラストまとめ

Sir William Fairbairn, the best mill engineer of his time, was Peter’s elder brother. He was commissioned by #TitusSalt to design #Saltaire Mill & the first bridge over the #RiverAire, replaced in 1869 with a grander thoroughfare. https://t.co/PIxRBD93Ht

#TitusSalt Jnr enjoyed the applause for his magic lantern slideshows of local scenes & his travels abroad in #GradeIIListed Victoria Hall #Saltaire. There’s no record of a children’s #Yuletide show though. #ChristmasIsComing

The #Shipley branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born #OTD 1810. One of the largest #worsted manufacturers & contemporary of #TitusSalt he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in #GradeIListed All Souls #Halifax in 1887.

In a cottage dating from the 17th century, the Judsons started serving refreshments to #Victorian hikers at Newholme Dean nr #Keighley. Aged 89, inventor & MP Sir Isaac Holden signed the visitors’ book on a walk in 1896. The last cuppa was sipped in the 1960s

#TitusSalt donated £100 p.a (£12,500 today) to the 1864 Crossley Schools & Orphange in #Halifax established by Joseph Crossley & his brothers, stinking rich carpet manufacturers. Joseph’s daughter Catherine would marry Titus Salt Jnr 3yrs later. #Dynasty

#TitusSalt bought two cannons from the #NapoleonicWars as features for #Saltaire Park. One of the many stories told is that one was fired #OTD 1805 during the Battle of Trafalgar. Another is that they were melted down for the #WW2 war effort. Mmm #OnceUponATime

In 1886 public funds were used to send 5 children, all bitten by a rabid terrier, from Great Horton #Bradford to #Paris. They were successfully treated by Louis Pasteur, who died #OTD 1895. The disease had killed in #Saltaire. #Vaccination saves lives. #WorldRabiesDay

To celebrate his birthday in 1857, #TitusSalt commissioned 3 trains to take 2,600 of his #Saltaire millhands to the largest art show in Britain, the Art Treasures Exhibition in #Manchester. #BirthdayBash born #OTD 1803

Theories why the 1903 #GradeIIListed statue of #TitusSalt has its back to #Saltaire include to prevent the face being hit by stray #cricket balls & to symbolise looking at other horizons. But why place him in the line of fire from a #NapoleonicWars cannon?

An entry by #TitusSalt in his notebook in 1835 of 10 bags of Peruvian wool, the year before he found unsold #alpaca bales in #Liverpool. The raw fleeces carried #anthrax, the woolsorters disease, a killer in #Bradford & later #Saltaire. #GrimReaper