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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

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

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

In Church 1873 Caroline & eldest daughter Amelia 37 married Henry Wright a wealthy industrialist & Congregational deacon at Allen St London. They lived in exclusive 22 Upper Phillimore Gdns & had no children.

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2020-04-03

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 hospital to the rescue after a terrible accident in four years after the formation of the 1895 Cycling Club. https://t.co/wIVFQAAI33

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2019-07-13

In the 1870s residents kept pigs past the boathouse by the & outbreaks of swine fever led to the village being declared an infected area in the 1890s and 1918. What a good idea of to ban livestock in back yards.

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2019-06-15

Ada Salt, secretary, moved with her mother & sister to Broadoak After Lady Caroline died Ada lived in & where she died 1924 leaving £2.2m equiv. Her ashes were scattered in Golders Green Crematorium.

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2019-06-12

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

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2019-05-16

The 1904 Exhibition was to be the greatest seen on this side of the atlantic. Opened by the Prince & Princess of Wales, they drove down Lane to the park where & other textile firms exhibited in the industrial hall.

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2019-05-05

The led 3,000 mill hands to Station for the journey to for birthday bash at Crow Nest mansion in 1856. but it wasn’t January

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2019-01-07

1,000 on the 1864 Salts Mill works outing went by train to favourite resort where son George showed off his super yacht, Oithona. Victorian

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2018-06-08

1812 Dickens parodied the legendary discovery of wool in visited in 1854 & his magazine “All The Year Round’ described village as a “colony”.

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2018-02-08