Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
The Institute, Victoria Square, 1869-72.
By Lockwood & Mawson.
Grade ll* listed.
Now known as Victoria Hall.
A view from Exhibition Road.
The institute cost £25,000 to build and contained a main hall to seat 800, a lecture room, two art rooms, a laboratory, a gymnasium, a library of 8,500 volumes and a reading room. A quarterly fee was charged and ranged downwards from 2s. for adult males.
The institute is set back from the road and the front area, along with that of the school opposite, forms a gardened square. Part of Saltaire model village.
Saltaire Village.
Established as a World Heritage Site in 2001, Saltaire village was originally founded in 1853 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry.
He built a new factory, Saltaire Mills, and around it a model village for his workers. The new stone houses were a huge improvement on the slums of nearby Bradford and the village also had its own bathhouses, hospital, school, library, church, reading room, concert hall, gymnasium, almshouses, allotments and park. Conditions for the workers at Salt’s Mill were substantially better than for those at nearby mills, even though the hours they worked would still have been long and arduous.
Sir Titus died in 1876 and was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the church he funded in Saltaire.
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Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
16-17 Helen Street.
By Lockwood & Mawson.
Grade ll listed.
Houses on Helen Street.
Complete by 1857 - type : workman - living room, scullery, two bedrooms, half-cellar.
Sir Titus Salt provided several different types of house, roughly intended to correspond to the social hierarchy of the village. All houses were owned by the company.
Saltaire Village.
Established as a World Heritage Site in 2001, Saltaire village was originally founded in 1853 by Sir Titus Salt, a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry.
He built a new factory, Saltaire Mills, and around it a model village for his workers. The new stone houses were a huge improvement on the slums of nearby Bradford and the village also had its own bathhouses, hospital, school, library, church, reading room, concert hall, gymnasium, almshouses, allotments and park. Conditions for the workers at Salt’s Mill were substantially better than for those at nearby mills, even though the hours they worked would still have been long and arduous.
Sir Titus died in 1876 and was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the church he funded in Saltaire.
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