Links
Links
This page is
intended to provide a comprehensive
guide to Saltaire on the internet. Updated regularly.
Notice:These sites
are not under our control and we are in no way responsible for
them or for any effect
whatsoever that they might have. Your using any link on this site(whether
on this page or any other) is a sign of acceptance of these
conditions.
General
Titus Salt (warning:
there are some errors and an overemphasis on smoke polution in
this account but despite that this encyclopaedia of 19thC British
History is invaluable)
From a local family website a brief account of Sir Titus Salt and Saltaire
Salts Mill Today
Interactive
Map of Saltaire
- Leads to a historical and architectural guide to Saltaire.(Warning: there is one important mistake on this
map - the station should be Saltaire
not Shipley.
The 1853
Gallery
Yorkshire Links - Probably the most comprehensive collection of
Yorkshire websites
Yorkshire Net tourist and business links
Bradford Links
Bradford Festival -New site for the 2000 festival
New website for Shipley
Bradford Timeline events in Bradford linked to those elsewhere. This site
is especially useful for the study of Bradford architecture
North East England History PagesThis is the best introduction to the history of
both Yorkshire and the North-East of England
West Yorkshire Photographs
(from the same stable comes 14sandwiches UK music e-zine mentioned recently on the Jo Whiley show on BBC Radio 1)
Victorian Web These links act as an introduction to British history
and culture of the Nineteenth Century
Scott Motorcycles were built at Saltaire from about 1910
Steam Power was the key to the mechanisation of the Wool
Industry. Fred
Dibnah's site on the BBC
Education pages explains how and why steam was so
important.
Of particular importance is this animation of power transmission. (At Saltaire
power was transmitted under the floor rather than by
overhead belts - an example of Titus Salt's desire to promote
health and safety issues.)
Wool processing
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Alpaca
What is an
Alpaca?
Pacaweb - The Alpaca gathering
place
Alpacacam -webcam at the Lone Juniper Ranch,
Gorman, California USA. The whole site is worth a look having quizzes
about alpacas, alpaca fibre and links to many other US alpaca
ranches.
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Mohair
History of Mohair
International
Mohair Association
Angora Goats
Notes on the Angora Goat
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FASHION
HISTORY
These links may be useful for projects on
textiles and fashion fabrics
Fashion Library at Kent State University
Saltaire
& Education *
Main Page
(with constantly updated
news of Saltaire)
*
* Getting to Saltaire* Pictures of Saltaire * Books at
Saltaire* Tourist information
* Victoria Hall -
Saltaire's unique international and community venue
* Events at Victoria
Hall August, September, October 1999*
History of Salt and
his times to 1853*History 1853 -1876*Books
about Saltaire
*a walk along Albert
Terrace * Maps of Saltaire Region
* The Marble Likeness
of their Liberal Master *Links
Northern Tourist
Links(Bradford) * Northern Tourist Links (North)