Shutterlag

By Shutterlag

Salts Mill

Saltaire
Built by Titus Salt around 1850, he decided to build his mill large enough to consolidate his textile manufacture in one place, He opened it with a grand banquet on his 50th birthday, and set about building houses, bathhouses, an institute, hospital, almshouses and churches, that make up the model village of Saltaire. He built the Congregational church which is now Saltaire United Reformed Church, at his own expense in 1858–59
Obviously a philanthropist, it is sometimes suggested that he was teetotal but this is untrue. He did, however forbid 'beershops' in Saltaire.
So, not all good then...!

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