Saltaire

Question 1

Describe Titus Salt

Answer 1

• born near Leeds
• moved to Bradford to work with his father as a wood-stapler
• set up soup kitchens for unemployed wool combers
• paid for 2,000 workers to have a day out in the country on the newly opened rail-way
• shrewd- bought whole harvest of alpaca cloth
• introduced 10 hour day a year before the Ten Hour Act

Question 2

Describe what Titus Salt used to make worsted cloths

Answer 2

• Donskoi wood> Russia
• alpaca fleece> South America
• Mohair> angora goats in Turkey

Question 3

Describe the Great Exhibition

Answer 3

• 1851

* exhibited by the firm of Titus Salt

Question 4

Describe the workers of Titus Salt

Answer 4

• 1803- 13,000
• 1851- 100,000
• grim conditions- 200 factory chimneys
• life expectancy for poor in Bradford: 20 years
• cholera

Question 5

Describe Lister

Answer 5

• 1843
• Bradford
• invented wool-combing machine
• thousands of wool combers fell unemployed

Question 6

Describe Titus Salt’s new mill

Answer 6

• 1850- moved factories from Bradford to sites at Shipley, Leeds and Liverpool Canal and River Aire- built the largest and most up-to-date milk in Europe
• 1853- mill opened- 3,500 workers

Question 7

Describe Titus Salt’s mills

Answer 7

• 1850- owned and ran 5 separate spinning and weaving mills in Bradford- biggest employer in the area
• sent cloth internationally and Queen Vicky

Question 8

Describe Saltaire

Answer 8

• model village for new mill workers built by Salt
• named streets after 11 children
• over 800 houses, wash houses with running water, bath houses, hospital, an Institute (with reading rooms), a library, a billiard room, a science lab, a concert hall, a school, a church, alms-houses, allotments, a park and a boathouse
• no pubs
• donated land for a Methodist church

Question 9

Describe the advantages of Saltaire

Answer 9

• start at 7am, not 8
• earn over £1,000 a day more
• show off power and wealth
• Christian duty

Question 10

Describe Titus Salt as a politician

Answer 10

• supported Chartists and free trade
• 1848- second mayor of Bradford- tried to persuade council and local factory owners to improve living and working conditions- failed
• 1859-1861 - MP for Bradford, supported many reforms
• 1869- knighted

Question 11

Describe Salt’s funeral

Answer 11

100,000 people lined streets of Bradford to watch funeral procession