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Sunrise, Albert Terrace, Saltaire. This is the original which is still available (limited edition giclee prints also) Watercolour, Pen and Acrylics.

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2022-04-18

Saltaire. Limited edition giclee prints available from the online shop

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2022-02-09

& thank you to all my followers. Freezing Friday in the Japanese Gardens on Shipley Glen, the & on the River Aire at https://t.co/dCiF1byUoi

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2021-01-02

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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2020-02-10

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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2020-01-31

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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2020-01-25

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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2019-12-16

There’s no truth in the rumour that giant City goalkeeper William Henry Foulke was related to the Salt family of The 6’4”, 24 stone giant “Fatty” was a great

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2019-10-28

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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2019-09-29

11yr old William missed out on the Amelia & George St parties. A at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II 1953 in Westminster Abbey, he grew up to be the allotment-holder Lord Wallace of

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2019-07-27

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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2019-07-08

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

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2019-06-09

Shooting in Victoria Hall reported 15 May 1893. Injured treated at Sir 1868 hospital. Drama in

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2019-05-16

Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter Beatrice & husband Henry of Battenburg planted a tree at to commemorate their 1887 visit to Later that year, host Jnr would die in the billiards room. The tree may still be there...somewhere.

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2019-05-13

100+ members of the U3A at a talk on & This thriving group meets in the 1976 Methodist Church at built on the site of the 1872 Wesleyan church that was demolished in 1970.

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2019-04-15

woman at the Gardens on Glen nr Built by Tom Hartley friend of Jnr in the 1880s & missed since the 1970s.

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2018-12-15

Jack & The Beanstalk at Windhill Cinderella & Humpty Dumpty in Victoria Hall,

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2018-12-15

Born 1841 in Fanny Salt had TB & despite wintering in the French of Pau & she died just before her 20th birthday at home, Methley Hall. Immortalised in

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2018-08-08

1928, Tony Richardson lived on Rd Married to Vanessa Redgrave, parents to actors Joely & Natasha. BFI

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2018-06-06

Martha Brown, servant in from age 11 left Bronte drawings & relics to sister Ann Binns’ family, of 16/17 Victoria Rd Auctioned in 1886

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2018-02-24