Saltaire Mills
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Basic information
- Name
- Saltaire Mills.
- Township
- Shipley.
- Civil Parish
- Shipley.
- Country
- West Yorkshire.
- Type of record
- A.
- NMRfn
- 41553.
- NGR
- SE 142 382.
- UTM
- 53.83985819, -1.785686565
Description
Titus Salt's great factory, the main part built 1850-3 with later expansion. Designed by Lockwood and Mawson of Bradford in conjunction with William Fairbairn of Manchester, the original complex provided an integrated worsted mill on a massive scale. Main components were warehouse and mill (five storeys and basement, sixty bays), arranged in a T-plan, combing shed, weaving shed, offices, and power plant. Close to the mill Salt built the village of Saltaire with workers' housing, public buildings and a park. Salts dominated the speciality fibre trade and the mills were said to produce eighteen miles of alpaca cloth every day in the late 1850s. Lower part of site between canal and river developed first in the 1850s with construction of gas plant, later by construction of dyehouses and New Mill (1868), with campanile chimney. Further sheds for storage and scouring added to main site. In 20th century, replacement of gas plant by mill buildings.
Ortophotographic map
Aerial photographic view of Saltaire Mills (Shipley, West Yorkshire).
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