SirJames Roberts of & spent 3 months in Russia every year in the 1880s trading for wool & lost a fortune when broke out. He gave £10k to the University of Leeds for a Chair in Russian Language & Literature.

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Another windy day in Hot on the heels of today is & in Japan it’s said that old gamps turn into fearsome ‘kaso obake’ ghosts. https://t.co/T3IlsR1Ia5

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in - a scene to inspire whose art included the Potato Eaters, Woman Digging Up Potatoes & The Potato Peeler. Not so humble spud after all. https://t.co/fYR1sydSNn

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After staying with & visiting Liverpool Docks where bought alpaca bales, Prince Rudolf toured Salts Mill 1878. He gave a shilling to a mill girl for “piecing up an end” & went into workers’ homes in Exactly 11yrs before https://t.co/wyGCkU7aFU

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Winston Churchill Minister of Munitions, was President of Salt School in 1917-18 but didn’t visit In 1942 he went to rival Samuel Lister’s Mill in & 65yrs ago was met by 200,000 when he arrived in during the election campaign. https://t.co/07fbhgJbUf

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

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Always enjoy a visit to in the village of Saltaire, Yorkshire. Currently showing David Hockney’s fantastic ipad pictures from his exhibition ‘The Arrival of Spring’.

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

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

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

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To celebrate his birthday in 1857, commissioned 3 trains to take 2,600 of his millhands to the largest art show in Britain, the Art Treasures Exhibition in born 1803

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

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An entry by in his notebook in 1835 of 10 bags of Peruvian wool, the year before he found unsold bales in The raw fleeces carried the woolsorters disease, a killer in & later

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It’s today! There’ll be dancing in the aisles & at Bar 56, afternoon entertainment

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British Pathé has a film of the to Salts Mill by George V & Queen Mary 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 &

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Newly released date for Lucienne de Ville & guests’ next performance in Another Sunday of entertainment, music & dance. Bar 56 on Bingley Rd. Saltaire’s

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House 14 (sponsored by The Craft House https://t.co/BUL9CiAPG5) on our Open Houses Trail is 6 Harold Place, where you will Arts Trail regulars Paula Dunn and Ian Burdall. The Saltaire Arts Trail runs from Sat 25 - Mon 27 May. More at https://t.co/gEfWsvsNk6.

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