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More Glorious Stitching! 🧵✨#Stitch #stitching #embroidery #workshops #localtalent #Saltaire
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
#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
#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
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
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.
#BOTD 1928, Tony Richardson #OscarWinner #filmdirector lived on #Bingley Rd #Saltaire. Married to Vanessa Redgrave, parents to actors Joely & Natasha. BFI #BluePlaque
Before #Saltaire was built #TitusSalt exhibited alpaca cloth at the 1851 Great Exhibition #HydePark opened #OTD 1851. He was advised not to buy part of the building for a weaving shed. #Vibrations
These big guns from the #NapoleonicWars that #TitusSalt bought for Roberts Park #Saltaire were melted down in #WW2. Replacements arrive 21 April at noon for #WorldHeritageDay shindigs.
#OTD 1996 the 1st Salts Walk from the 1st #Saltaire Information Centre with Clive Woods #historian & #HongKong students. Another #HappyBirthday
A wacky #Victorian #HappyEaster. Wishing all in #Saltaire - traders, guides,volunteers & twitter followers a terrific day. Especial thanks to the #GoodEggs in the #VisitorInformationCentre.
2018 #Saltaire Arts Trail Postcard #Exhibition #OpenToAll at the #UnitedReformedChurch 4 May & then at the CellarTrustCafe. Entries by 11 April https://t.co/vK6TZ2PRH3
#BOTD 1812 #Charles Dickens parodied the legendary discovery of #alpaca wool in #Liverpool, visited #Saltaire in 1854 & his magazine “All The Year Round’ described #TitusSalt’s village as a “colony”.
#Bradford made cannons inspired by 2 from the #NapoleonicWars bought by #TitusSalt will be back in Roberts Park #Saltaire on 21 April. Get ready to pose. https://t.co/nyjFhdAMCp
Stunning new oil on canvas paintings by #saltaire #artist @IanBurdall just arrived in store. All I want for #christmas ...
#GeneralBooth founder & 1st genera lof the #BloodAndFire #SalvationArmy visited #Saltaire & #Bingley #OTD in 1907. Arriving at #VictoriaHall
This weekends Pop-up #Saltaire Arts Trail! Take a look at our daily activities, art, stall holders & workshops here: https://t.co/nqOymBaW1n