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at 74 Victoria Rd. In 1881 it was home to Hannah Fell a widow & her 9 children and all but Harry (6) were toiling for There was however plenty on the table on

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2022-12-14

Barely a month after the 1901 burglary at Mansion a seldom recalled tragedy struck. Jnr’s widow hosted the Bradford Postmen’s Water Polo match in the lake, watched by 300. How nobody, not even his wife, saw 26 yr old Tom Mirfield drowning remains a mystery https://t.co/fMgG8NbSvQ

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2022-11-15

“Too timid to read to the congregation..” the young was the librarian of the Horton Lane Congregational Chapel The Horton Lane church was demolished, the Sunday school survives.
Listed city centre building is finally sold https://t.co/P3m7T9CJYA

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2022-03-30

Opened 1914, the Alhambra was built on the site of Rands Mill, which was next door to family home. Former pupil Marie Studholme, gaiety girl & Music Hall star, was mobbed at the opening of the theatre in her home town.

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2022-03-19

Ann Walker’s death 1854 was bad news for her tenant in Crow Nest Lightcliffe. Busy with his mill at not a year old, the Salts had to leave the home they loved. In 1867 Titus grabbed the mansion at a bargain price when it failed to sell at auction. https://t.co/z9BB8xZt43

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2022-02-26

Day 6 of the Living Advent Calendar. The wonderful window at 8 Amelia St may have been influenced by Jnr’s trips to Egypt & the Holy Land. 150yrs ago his magic lantern slideshow of his travels entertained the village in Victoria Hall.

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2021-12-07

Married for 21 years, Catherine Salt wife of Jnr was widowed 1887. Son Gordon was born 277 days after the wedding, just in time to quash any rumours. Left with 4 children, the youngest two aged 13 & 11 Catherine sold mansion & moved to Denton Hall. https://t.co/WL7WCdtUNn

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2021-11-20

150yrs ago was handed the list of the 2,296 subscribers of his portrait plus the finished article by artist J P Knight RA, who also painted for Queen Victoria’s royal collection. It’s not known whether Titus sent https://t.co/w8aJkE0lRv

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2021-10-11

had a built in his 1871 park & would be delighted that live music was still entertaining the crowds during the the annual event first staged in 2003 to commemorate 150yrs of his model village & his birthday, of course! https://t.co/B53TJvuMPR

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2021-09-18

was favourite holiday destination where he had a home on The Promenade. He enjoyed buying fish from women at the quayside & admitted once walking off wearing borrowed spectacles. She didn’t let him get far. https://t.co/vx6athL3Jv

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2021-06-27

Hosting the royals at MilnerField in 1887, the strain of the loss-making Jubilee Exhibition in is clearly visible on 44yr old He collapsed fatally in his mansion 6 months later. https://t.co/VUWqcfGAmO

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2021-05-19

Born in Christopher Gifford Ambler (1886-1965) left school, worked in & attended evening classes at the School of Art. Famous for dogs & horses he illustrated the 1782 comic ballad by William Cowper, the GtGtGt Uncle of Denys Salt Gt Grandson https://t.co/0Bv8oWPHa6

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2021-03-14

7 months pregnant at the opening banquet of Mill, wife Caroline gave birth to their youngest child Ada 1853 in Crow Nest. Ada married aged 29 & had one child. The last of the Salt children, Ada died at home in Bickenhall Mansions, London in 1935. https://t.co/7ciK4CPvhl

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2020-11-19

Not welcome in the 18thC Kings Arms, William Nicholson preached temperance in denouncing those who supped the A message supported by who banned pubs in whilst the bar a 1 Victoria Rd would have met with his approval.

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2020-11-18

100yrs later Jnr released 4,000 trout into the & 2,000 into the lake at Crow Nest, rented from partner & where Sir Titus’s foreman was found dead in the shallow 1m lake, his hands tied with his own hanky. Verdict: https://t.co/WTGlDW41si

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2020-05-25

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

Sir William Fairbairn, the best mill engineer of his time, was Peter’s elder brother. He was commissioned by to design Mill & the first bridge over the replaced in 1869 with a grander thoroughfare. https://t.co/PIxRBD93Ht

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2020-01-04

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

The branch of the Penny Bank est by Sir Edward Akroyd born 1810. One of the largest manufacturers & contemporary of he founded Akroydon village & lived in Bankfield, now a Museum. He was buried in All Souls in 1887.

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2019-11-29