Saltaire is the title of the Victorian model village in the metropolitan borough of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, by the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

It was founded by Sir Titus Salt in 1853. He got moved his entire business from either Bradford to the rural places touching Shipley to provide better sanitary arrangements for his workers than can be got within Bradford. He likewise built better houses, the park, the hospital & do-houses by having going water supply, as well as an Institute for recreation & education, by owning the library, the reading room, a concert hall, billiard room, science lab & gymnasium. There were likewise almshouses, allotments, bathhouses and the boathouse. A Mausoleum houses Sir Titus's system; he died around 1876.

Similar projects got been began two or three years earliest by Edward Ackroyd at Copley and when early as a beginning of the 19th century inside New Lanark, Scotland by Robert Owen (amongst others).

There exists disceptation when to whether Titus Salt was the philanthropist or simply the super shrewd capitalist. There exists little doubt that a quality of life for the workers in the village of Saltaire was better than that of several of their counterparts elsewhere. All the same, it was as well super extremely regulated, primarily to increase their lucrativeness. Notably, the town did non contain a pub; this was not because Salt was opposed to swallowing (he owned an extensive cellar) however because he saw saloon as a breeding ground for dissent & a formation of trade unions.

Whenever Sir Titus Salt's boy, also Sir Titus Salt, died, Saltaire was taken across by a partnership which involved James Roberts from either Haworth world health organization got worked at a mill since the age of 12, & world health organization would travel to Russia both season, speaking that language fluently. Sir James Roberts came to own Saltaire however invested heavy around Russia, losing his fortune at a Revolution. He endowed a chair of Russian at Leeds University & bought the Bronte's Haworth Parsonage for the united states. He is mentioned within T.S. Eliot's Waste. He is buried at Fairlight in Sussex.

Now, a mill complex contains the kind of businesses, by owning the old mill containing a shopping mall using a major gallery housing works per Bradford-born artist David Hockney. Its industrial apply continues, when these are as well house to the electronics manufacturer Pace Micro Technology. A Institute houses a Victorian Reed Organ Museum, while a fresh mill contains a Agents for the local NHS Trusts & flat.

Inside December 2001, Saltaire was recognised as a pioneering model village by existence intended as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

These are served by Saltaire railway station.

A Saltaire Festival, which first took place around 2003 to celebrate the 150th day of remembrance of the foundation of Saltaire, is currently held annually for a week around September.

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