Telling the stories of Titus Salt's mill and model village

Titus Salt opened his state-of-the-art mill in 1853 on a new site a few miles from Bradford. Over the next twenty years he oversaw the building of a new model village.

Saltaire’s neatly planned streets were a world away from overcrowded and insanitary Bradford. Saltaire had schools, a hospital, a social club, an educational institute, a park, and a magnificent Congregationalist ‘cathedral’. It even had proper sewers.

Today, Saltaire stands largely intact. In 2001 it was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO as an outstanding example of a nineteenth century model town that demonstrates the social and economic impact of the textile industry.