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#TitusSalt chased by #Scarborough fisherwoman. Having borrowed her spectacles to examine her wares, Titus walked off with a cod & her specs on his nose. As told in Balgarnie’s 1877 biography. #FourEyes
It’s today! There’ll be dancing in the aisles & #bumsonseats at Bar 56, #Saltaire. #Sunday afternoon entertainment #NoCharge
British Pathé has a film of the #RoyalVisit to Salts Mill by George V & Queen Mary #OTD 1918 with shots of crowds at Fox Corner & Victoria Rd. They wrote: “..what a pleasure it was ..to pass through the thickly populated centre of #Shipley & #Saltaire”.
Newly released date for Lucienne de Ville & guests’ next performance in #Saltaire, #NoCharge. Another Sunday of entertainment, music & dance. Bar 56 on Bingley Rd. Saltaire’s #GotTalent
The 1904 #Bradford Exhibition was to be the greatest seen on this side of the atlantic. Opened #OTD by the Prince & Princess of Wales, they drove down #Manningham Lane to the park where #TitusSalt’s & other textile firms exhibited in the industrial hall.
Marie Studholme, former Salts Grammar School pupil, #Saltaire & international #MusicHall singer & actor, was besieged by fans at the opening of the Alhambra theatre in #Bradford #OTD 1914.
Going to #Bradford Industrial Museum tomorrow 3rd Feb for stalls, food & #brassband music celebrating Bishop Blaise, patron saint of #woolcombers.
#StainedGlass windows by the 1859 London firm of Saunders&Co were installed throughout #TitusSalt Jnr’s 12thC medieval style #MilnerField mansion nr #Bingley in 1869. #NoExpenseSpared
Herbert b.1840, son of #TitusSalt of #Saltaire was buried in 1912 with his 1st wife Elizabeth & her sister Margaret his 2nd wife, in the 1837 #WestNorwood Cemetery, which has just secured £6.7m funding to restore it.
The #Saltaire #BrassBand led 3,000 mill hands to #Bradford Station for the journey to #Lightcliffe for #TitusSalt’s birthday bash at Crow Nest mansion in 1856. #AlcoholFree but it wasn’t January