Saltaire, The Mill And The Cricket Pitch 1888
Photo ref: 21024
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Titus Salt's Victorian idealism led him to believe that a happy, healthy and fulfilled workforce was a productive workforce. His model village provided all the essential living amenities, and for recreation he provided a spacious park on the opposite side of the river and canal. Here splendid gardens, with statues of Salt, offered healthy living to the workers at the giant mill. The park was later called Roberts Park, after being bought by another industrialist, and was then offered to Bradford Council.

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A Selection of Memories from Saltaire

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Saltaire

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My husband's father Frank Baker, worked at Starting Post Farm on All Alone Road near Idle. His cousin Albert Drew, was in the fields with him when a German air plane came down. Does anyone have any memories of this and know the time of day when it happened? My husband's father later joined the Army and was killed in 1944, my husband then came back to South Yorkshire with his mum.
I was Julie Denny (now Julie Hale, I got married in 1998 to Alan Hale). I lived at 57 Albert Road for 30 years + with my mum, dad Roy and Betty and my brother Paul  I remember the street party, it was great. We had tables from the top of the road right down to the bottom, we had fancy dress, party games and a good old sing song, it was  great. Where has all that fun gone nowadays.