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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
How last minute #XmasEve shopping in #Bradford’s Kirkgate used to look like. #SeasonsGreetings
#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
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
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
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.