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100+ members of the #HolmeValley U3A at a talk on #TitusSalt & #Saltaire. This thriving group meets in the 1976 Methodist Church at #Holmfirth, built on the site of the 1872 Wesleyan church that was demolished in 1970. #HistoryTalks
Some details from this morning’s Glorious Painting! course with Saltaire artist Ann Davies, focused today on underpainting #paint #painting #workshop #course #art #Saltaire #underpainting #learnsomethingnew
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.
Maull & Polyblank #photographers of London sold portraits of celebrities in the late #1850s and snapped #TitusSalt of #Saltaire & MP for #Bradford with his legendary silk top hat. #Dashing
@aireriverstrust @rh0desy @GargraveChurch @KeighleyLHS I’ve seen the 1912 film ‘Easter on Shipley Glen’ that features The Rose of #Saltaire pleasure steamer. It sailed towards #Bingley from where the #Bradford dragon boat races are now held.
#OTD 1908 #BadenPowell formed the 1st Scouts Group in England. The same year as the 1st #Shipley (Windhill) group met and later the 3rd at St Peter’s & the 5th at #Saltaire URC.
No week is complete without a mention of Jack and Iggy the monster kittens! They are growing super fast and will soon be venturing out into the big bad world. Read more: https://t.co/Yv0k9SQ6ZR
#pauladunnartist #yorkshireartist #catsofsaltaire
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.
Instead of doing National Service, #DavidHockney, conscientious objector, was an orderly for 2yrs at St Luke’s Hospital #Bradford. Originally the 1852 Workhouse Infirmary by Lockwood & Mason it was built when they were working on #Saltaire
13 January 1919 Lt Col (Dr) Rutherford of #Shipley shot dead #Australian Major Seton in London for an affair with his wife Alice, daughter of Sir James Roberts, owner of #Saltaire Mills & #Milnerfield. #Bounder
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
Suffering from heart trouble, Sir #TitusSalt of #Saltaire, self-declared #BagOfBones, an invalid using a bath-chair, joined the host above #OTD 1876 at home in Crow Nest #Lightcliffe nr #Halifax.
#CharlesDickens wrote a letter home about Bradford #OTD 1854, the year he visited #Saltaire & read to 3,700 in St George’s Hall #Bradford. #AChristmasCarol
Popping out for last minute gifts and provisions in #Saltaire & #Shipley? In the nick of time #ShopLocal #XmasEve
#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
I am teaching Hygge Winter Weaving workshop in Saltaire on 26th January https://t.co/hsOFHb3pi9 Discover easy weaving techniques to make your own Scandinavian style wall hanging on a tapestry loom.
@bantam84 The eccentric #Japanese Gardens were very popular with follies made out of clinker, arches, a ruined castle & small boating lake; all on #Shipley #Saltaire & #Baildon’s doorsteps. More information attached.