Salt and Roberts families visit Saltaire
At the end of July the Saltaire Collection and Shipley College welcomed three generations of the Salt family and two of the Roberts family to Saltaire
At the end of July the Saltaire Collection and Shipley College welcomed three generations of the Salt family and two of the Roberts family to Saltaire
Read about the tragic drowning of Mabel Webster, daughter of Halifax carpet magnate Henry Crossley and niece of Catherine Salt (née Crossley)
Find out about the first Bradford Heritage Festival. Events all across Bradford and district 11 to 13 July.
Signup for a free history-themed tour of the World Heritage village of Saltaire on Saturday 12 July.
Read how a progressive education at Salts Girls High school allowed Edith Dolby to study mathematics at Cambridge and become a renowned head teacher
Read how the Boer war led to the creation of a school dental clinic in Saltaire, but not without a fight!
Read about the dentist H Alvin Mahoney, appointed in 1912 as Saltaire’s dental surgeon and head of the new children’s dental clinic.
Find out about Albert Ernest Ellison, school dentist in Saltaire and co-inventor of ‘Nerve Destroyer’, an instant cure for toothache.
For National Lottery players only: sign up for a free guided tour of the World Heritage Site of Saltaire on Saturday 15 March 2025
Designing for Saltaire’s new museum The Saltaire World Heritage Education Association (the Saltaire Collection’s parent charity) is seeking proposals from museum and exhibition designers to… Read More »Design consultants required
There are alpacas all over Saltaire, carved in stone, wood and metal and sometimes even visiting for real. Our new online exhibition Alpaca wool: From the… Read More »Alpacas everywhere in our new exhibition
A free travelling exhibition by Chris Peltier in collaboration with the Saltaire Collection. ‘The Real McCoy’ is an interactive, educational exhibition designed for all ages,… Read More »The Real McCoy – an introduction to black inventors