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Photograph of Darlington College in early twentieth century

Sarah Anne Walker: visionary educator

Sarah Walker was born in Shipley, educated in Saltaire. She became a leading proponent and practitioner of the training of women teachers and elementary education.

Drawing of Electrical current flows in the four-cell bath from: Galvanism and Faradism by E M Magill

Ethel Magill: pioneering radiologist

Read about Dr. Ethel May Magill who studied at Salt High School and went to be a pioneering British physician, radiologist, and author

Austin, Aaron and Nick Salt, Jamie and Angus Roberts, 2025

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

Photographs of Lady Mabel Webster and her husband Sir Augustus. Sunday Pictorial 17 June 1917

Farthing Pond tragedy

Read about the tragic drowning of Mabel Webster, daughter of Halifax carpet magnate Henry Crossley and niece of Catherine Salt (née Crossley)

United Reformed Church, 2022

Free guided tour of Saltaire

Signup for a free history-themed tour of the World Heritage village of Saltaire on Saturday 12 July.

E1b-065: Girl students at Salts High School

Edith Dolby

Read how a progressive education at Salts Girls High school allowed Edith Dolby to study mathematics at Cambridge and become a renowned head teacher

C2b-191: Sir Titus Salt's Hospital with three storeys

The School Dental Clinic

Read how the Boer war led to the creation of a school dental clinic in Saltaire, but not without a fight!