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Always enjoy a visit to @SaltsMill in the village of Saltaire, Yorkshire. Currently showing David Hockney’s fantastic ipad pictures from his exhibition ‘The Arrival of Spring’.
#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
Crowds paying respect at the #Shipley #WW1 memorial by renowned local sculptor J H Cawthra. It was moved from Nab Wood Cemetery to Crowghyll Park. #Saltaire’s memorial is in the grounds of the #UnitedReformedChurch #RemembranceSunday
There’s no truth in the rumour that giant #Bradford City goalkeeper William Henry Foulke was related to the Salt family of #Saltaire. The 6’4”, 24 stone giant “Fatty” was a great #CrowdPuller. #WhoAteAllThePies #BCAFC
#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
#OTD 1907 a benefit concert was held in the Congregational Sunday School for petite Ada Fieldhouse 22, who had lost her right arm in an accident at #Saltaire Mill. With the proceeds & compensation, Ada acquired a drapers at 24 Shirley St. #HealthAndSafety
Designed by Lockwood & Mawson, architects of #Saltaire, part of the 6th floor collapsed at the 1873 Legrams Mill #Bradford #OTD 1908 & crashed to the basement. Five mill girls were injured & one worker died. Now #GradeIIListed student accommodation.
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?
All you needed to know in 1956 about the #Shipley Glen funicular #Tramway. A top speed of 20mph, tuppence to travel up & a copper to come down. Still a #BankHoliday treat for #Saltaire & #Shipley families. #YourCarriageAwaits
His clothes left on the bank, William Donnell 22 of 4 Constance St #Saltaire was fished out of the #RiverAire by New Hirst Mill weir #OTD 1879. Unemployed, it was said he was depressed, but not at the inquest at the Rosse as #suicide was a crime until 1961.
Thomas & Mary Ann Cooper & 8 children lived in the original thatched Bracken Hall in 1850. They were the first to sell teas on #Shipley Glen when stepping stones were the only way over the #RiverAire at #Saltaire & where sozzled poet John Nicholson slipped for the last time.
#TheStoryGoes that the older #TitusSalt liked playing random tricks. Once when walking in #Saltaire with friends, a gypsy tried to sell him a broom. He bought the lot, gave one to each startled pal & the rest to gawping children. #HaHa
11yr old William missed out on the Amelia & George St parties. A #chorister at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 in Westminster Abbey, he grew up to be the allotment-holder Lord Wallace of #Saltaire. #Curtsey
Some of my fave pics of the fantastic landscapes near me in #Bradford 📷🧡 #Yorkshire @ThePhotoHour @visitBradford #SparklingBradford #Saltaire @VisitBritain #Ilkley @EarthandClouds @BBCEarth
Stages in the life of hirsute #TitusSalt (1803-76), founder of #Saltaire UNESCO World Heritage Site. Even Titus had a swift half to cool down on a day like today. #HairyHistoryDay #Heatwave
Sir #TitusSalt’s hospital to the rescue after a terrible accident in #Shipley, four years after the formation of the 1895 #Saltaire Cycling Club. https://t.co/wIVFQAAI33