30-537: Saltaire ( Shipley , City of Bradford ) Stewart Park ( Marton , Borough of Middlesbrough ) Team Valley ( Borough of Gateshead ) Wakefield city centre ( City of Wakefield ) Askham Bryan College is a specialist land-based college based in Askham Bryan , York , England. It also has centres in Newcastle , Middlesbrough , Saltaire and Wakefield . It was built in 1936, but not opened until after World War II as
60-677: A 250 Holstein Friesian dairy herd and the National Beef Training Centre; East Barrow Farm which houses the college Equine Department with 53 horses and Animal Management Department; and Headley Hall Farm which is the arable farm formerly of the University of Leeds . Newton Rigg College , based in Penrith, Cumbria , became part of Askham Bryan College in 2011; while Liz Philip was Principal; in 2020 Tim Whitaker announced that teaching at
90-563: A landmark example of enlightened 19th century urban planning . The building phase was nearing completion in 1871. The census from that year shows that Saltaire had 800 dwellings (755 houses and 45 almshouses), which contained 4,389 people. In October 1872, Saltaire, along with Dean Clough Mill in Halifax , were featured highlights of the Japanese Government's Iwakura Mission tour of modern industrial Britain. Sir Titus died in 1876 and
120-532: A municipal museum for many years still stands on the edge of the gothic-style, stone-built model village, which survives more or less intact. The crowning feature of the scheme, Sir George Gilbert Scott's white limestone All Souls' Church (1856-8) still dominates the area, its lofty spire reaching 236 feet into the Yorkshire sky: the second tallest in the county ( Wakefield Cathedral has the highest spire). Both St Stephen's Copley and All Souls itself are now vested in
150-541: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Saltaire Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley , West Yorkshire , England, situated between the River Aire , the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . Salt's Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford. The mill ceased production in 1986, and
180-400: Is also a World Heritage site, was founded by David Dale in 1786. Salt built neat stone houses for his workers (much better than the slums of Bradford), wash-houses with tap water, bath-houses, a hospital and an institute for recreation and education, with a library, a reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science laboratory and a gymnasium. The village had a school for the children of
210-578: Is surrounded by a buffer zone established to protect the context of the World Heritage Site. Concerns have been raised over plans announced by Bradford Council and Action Airedale to site a bypass through the buffer zone to either side of the World Heritage Site and to tunnel beneath the village. Within sight of the mill, the tunnel would follow the line of the railway and exit behind the United Reformed Church. As it would pass alongside
240-700: The City of Bradford , of the Saltaire and Hirstwood ward of Shipley Town Council, and part of the parliamentary constituency of Shipley , currently represented by Anna Dixon of the Labour Party . From 1999 to 2005, parliamentarians from three chambers, Chris Leslie MP in the House of Commons, Lord Wallace of Saltaire in the House of Lords and Richard Corbett MEP in the European Parliament, all lived in Saltaire. Saltaire
270-550: The House of Commons , William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire in the House of Lords , and Richard Corbett MEP in the European Parliament . Edward Akroyd Lieutenant Colonel Edward Akroyd (1810–1887), English manufacturer, was born into a textile manufacturing family in 1810, and when he died in 1887, he still owned the family firm. He inherited "James Akroyd & Sons Ltd." from his father in 1847, and he became
300-549: The Leeds and Liverpool Canal , it could impact on this Conservation Area. The route would impact on an ancient semi-natural woodland and the Woodland Garden of Remembrance at Nab Wood Cemetery. No progress on a bypass for Saltaire has been made as it has been described as "financially unviable". Instead Bradford Council are focussing on the Shipley Eastern Relief Road, which will feed traffic into Bradford along
330-592: The Russian Revolution . He endowed a chair of Russian at Leeds University and bought the Brontës' Haworth Parsonage for the nation. He is mentioned in T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land . Roberts is buried at Fairlight, East Sussex . His legacy can still be seen in Saltaire: he named Roberts Park , to the north of the river, after his son when he gave it to Bradford Council in 1920. Saltaire village remained under
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#1732855559410360-606: The Yorkshire Agricultural Institute . It first opened to students in 1948. The college runs courses in Agriculture, Animal Management, Veterinary Nursing, Equine, Engineering, Motorsport, Horticulture, Arboriculture, Floristry, Countryside Management, Outdoor Adventure Sport, Sport Coaching and Fitness, Uniformed Public Services and Foundation Vocational Programmes. The college farm is 1,022 acres (414 ha) and supports three farms: Westfield Farm which accommodates
390-637: The Yorkshire Penny Bank (to encourage workers to save), and he worked closely with the Halifax Permanent Building Society (later the Halifax Building Society ) to promote home ownership through his model village Akroydon . This was built after his initial housing development, which he had undertaken with his brother at Copley, to show people how housing conditions could be improved. He was partly responsible for bringing
420-514: The 150th anniversary of the foundation of Saltaire, is held every year over eleven days in September. The Saltaire Arts Trail is a visual arts festival that takes place each May. Its public events include art exhibitions, children's activities, a Makers Fair, and Open Houses where residents open their homes which become temporary art galleries. Politically, Saltaire is part of the Shipley electoral ward of
450-558: The Akroyd business empire has passed well into history, what remains of it in Halifax is something of the architectural heritage to remind one of the scope of Akroyd's vision. The small church at Copley survives (without the colossal mill which stood nearby). At Haley Hill the mill survives in multiple occupation as part of the Dean Clough business park; the Akroyd mansion, Bankfield , which has been
480-508: The existing Canal Road Corridor. Salts Mill closed as a textile mill in February 1986, and Jonathan Silver bought it the following year and began renovating it. Today it houses a mixture of business, commerce, leisure and residential use. In the main mill building are: The "New Mill", on the other side of the canal, is divided between offices for the local National Health Service Trusts and residential flats. Film footage of Saltaire and
510-483: The fortunes of Halifax and the terrible social conditions that grew out of the Industrial Revolution . He funded and supported a local allotment society and many institutions for the working classes, a school for child labourers, a workers' pension scheme, several churches (he was a staunch Anglican ) and a cemetery. He founded a Working Men's College, the first outside London. In the mid-1850s, he helped found
540-619: The highest level of protection given to the Congregational church (since 1972 Saltaire United Reformed Church ) which is listed grade I. The village has survived remarkably complete, but further protection is needed as the village is blighted by traffic through the Aire Valley, an important east-west route. A bypass is proposed to relieve traffic pressure. Roberts Park , on the north side of the river, suffered from neglect and vandalism but has been restored by Bradford Council . In July 2014 it
570-557: The name of the river. Salt moved his business (five separate mills) from Bradford to this site near Shipley to arrange his workers and to site his large textile mill by the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the railway. Salt employed the local architects Francis Lockwood and William Mawson . Similar, but considerably smaller, projects had also been started around the same time by Edward Akroyd at Copley and by Henry Ripley at Ripley Ville . The cotton mill village of New Lanark , which
600-531: The nearby Shipley Glen Tramway in 1914 is held by the Yorkshire Film Archive. A two minute short clip showing workers leaving Salt's Mill on 24 July 1900 is held by the British Film Institute . 2009 2014 2015 2017 2018 2019 2020 2022 In the early 2000s, Saltaire was home to three parliamentarians, each a member of a different parliament: Chris Leslie MP in
630-411: The owner of one of the country's largest worsted manufacturers. He established mills at Haley Hill in Halifax and then at Copley , two miles or so to the south. He proved to be a very successful businessman, and his firm made him very prosperous. At Haley Hill, not far from his mills, he extended a large mansion , Bankfield , and then went to live there. Akroyd was well read and concerned about
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#1732855559410660-534: The ownership of the Mill until it was sold by Messrs. Salts (Saltaire) Ltd. to the Bradford Property Trust Ltd. on 31 July 1933. In October 1933, the new owners came to an arrangement with Shipley Urban District Council to carry out improvements, including the renewal of gas services, provision of mains electricity, along with sewerage and sanitary improvements. This included "a comprehensive scheme to eliminate
690-423: The railway to the town. Edward Akroyd became a Lieutenant Colonel of the 4th Yorkshire West Riding (Halifax) Rifle Volunteers in 1861, and served as a member of Parliament . Akroyd's kindness was well known, and many had cause to be grateful to him. They felt his problems as keenly as their own when some of his overseas investments failed and he suffered great financial loss. The unkindest cut of fate, however,
720-582: The site would cease in July 2021. According to Cumbrian Lord Inglewood, the process of asset stripping may be "unlawful". Between 2016 and 2020 student numbers at Newton Rigg fell by 40%. Alumni include Geoffrey Smith , a horticulturalist, writer and broadcaster; and Joe Maiden , a horticulturalist and broadcaster for BBC Radio Leeds . 53°55′16″N 1°09′40″W / 53.921°N 1.161°W / 53.921; -1.161 This United Kingdom university, college or other education institution article
750-408: The waste water lavatories and the old type of coal store, and to erect new in their places." The full scheme included the removal of 43 houses to open out certain parts of the village. In December 2001, Saltaire was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . This means that the government has a duty to protect the site. The buildings belonging to the model village are individually listed , with
780-408: The workers, almshouses , allotments , a park and a boathouse. Recreational initiatives were also encouraged such as the establishment of a drum and fife band for school age boys and a brass band, precursor of today's Hammonds Saltaire Band , for men of the village. With the combination of quality housing, employment, recreation, educational facilities and social services the model town represented
810-535: Was announced that planning officers had compiled a list of replacement front doors that were deemed to be "not in keeping with the buildings' historic status." Saltaire is a conservation area . Victoria Hall (originally the Saltaire Institute) is used for meetings, community events and concerts, and houses a Wurlitzer theatre pipe organ. The village is served by Saltaire railway station . The Saltaire Festival , which first took place in 2003 to celebrate
840-511: Was converted into a multifunctional location with an art gallery, restaurants, and the headquarters of a technology company. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and on the European Route of Industrial Heritage . Saltaire was commissioned in 1851 by Sir Titus Salt , a leading industrialist in the Yorkshire woollen industry. The name of the village is a combination of the founder's surname and
870-571: Was interred in the mausoleum adjacent to the Congregational church . When Sir Titus Salt's son, Titus Salt Junior, died, Saltaire was taken over by a partnership which included Sir James Roberts from Haworth . Roberts had worked in wool mills since the age of eleven. He had significant business interests in Russia, and spoke Russian fluently . Roberts came to own Saltaire, but chose to invest his money heavily in Russia, losing some of his fortune in
900-442: Was when he fell from his horse and received severe head injuries. After this, his failing health caused him to leave Halifax for a secluded life at St Leonards-on-Sea , attended by only one manservant, and it was there that he died in 1887. At his funeral, 15,000 mourners crowded outside All Souls' Church and many businesses closed for a few hours as a mark of respect. On his death, he left an estate of £ 1,234 1s. 10d. Now that
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