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100yrs later #TitusSalt Jnr released 4,000 trout into the #RiverAire & 2,000 into the lake at Crow Nest, rented from #GentlemanJack’s partner & where Sir Titus’s foreman was found dead in the shallow 1m lake, his hands tied with his own hanky. Verdict: #Suicide #PullTheOtherOne https://t.co/WTGlDW41si
Sir William Fairbairn, the best mill engineer of his time, was Peter’s elder brother. He was commissioned by #TitusSalt to design #Saltaire Mill & the first bridge over the #RiverAire, replaced in 1869 with a grander thoroughfare. https://t.co/PIxRBD93Ht
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.
#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