World Connections Exhibition finishes
We hope you have enjoyed this on line exhibition, I am the Archivist at Saltaire Stories but this would not…
Stories from our collection which demonstrate some of Saltaire’s global connections.
We hope you have enjoyed this on line exhibition, I am the Archivist at Saltaire Stories but this would not…
Acorns in a tin?? Yes, we have some rather odd items in the Archive! These belonged to Mary Isabel Salt,…
There are other places named Saltaire, or have similar place names, in the USA and in Australia. United States of…
The Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition was held in Saltaire in 1887. The Exhibition was held not only to celebrate Queen…
Two Dutch Students - Ajay Baldewsing and Thomas Koopman (aged 15/16 years) contacted Saltaire Village Info and were passed on…
Donald Hanson recalled that as a Director of Illingworth, Morris, who had their headquarters at Salts Mill, the group had…
The Ricciardo sisters came from Italy after the Second World War to work in the Bradford area. Their story starts…
Dora Ricciardo was born on the 22 August 1929, in a village called Avezzano about one and a half miles…
Mohammed Bashir travelled from Mirpur, Pakistan in the 1950s to work in the textile mills of Bradford. His story starts…
Mohammed Bashir was born in 1925 in a small village called Tangdew in Mirpur, now an area of Pakistan. His…