Saltaire Village Website

22/09/2026

People who lived and/or worked in Saltaire
Researched by Colin Coates
New additions - (see also the A-Z index on that page)
Bacon, Florence Caroline [Added 20 September 2026]
Bacon, Richard James [Added 20 September 2026]
Helliwell, Evelyn Minerva (nee West) [Added 20 September 2026]
West, William James [Added 20 September 2026]
Newhall, Doris Mabel (nee West) [Added 20 September 2026]
Robinson, Gertrude (nee West) [Added 20 September 2026]
West, Frank Edwin [Added 20 September 2026]
West, Ernest [Added 20 September 2026]
West, Leslie[Added 20 September 2026]
West, Lucy [Added 20 September 2026]
West, William Morris [Added 20 September 2026]

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22/09/2026

People who worked in Salts Mill, researched by Colin Coates
New additions this month:
Dewhirst, Arthur [Moved from Saltaire Biographies to Mill Worker / Updated, 20 September 2026]
Holden, Susannah (nee Seddon) [Added 20 September 2026]
Seddon, Peter [Added 20 September 2026]
Illingworth, Richard [Added 20 September 2026]
Middleton, Octavia Eva (nee West) [Added 20 September 2026]
Naylor, John [Added 20 September 2026]
Wainwright, Lena (nee Seddon) [Added 20 September 2026]
West, Edith (nee Excell) [Updated 20 September 2026]
West, Hilda Adeline [Added 20 September 2026]
Wigglesworth, John Henry [Existing WW1 Roll of Honur. Added 20 September 2026]
See the A-Z index on that page for further names.

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22/09/2026

Saltaire, WW2 years. Researched by Colin Coates, published monthly.
September, 1944
Including: THANKS TO SHIPLEY - letter to the Editor
Sir,—I should like to pay tribute to the truly wonderful hospitality afforded to the buzz-bomb evacuees from the East End of London, by the folk of Shipley and Saltaire.
I have visited my wife and child at Shipley and have nothing but praise and unbounded admiration for the manner in which these kindly folk have taken unto themselves complete strangers, and, in many cases, made them “one of the family.”
The adverse criticism which has appeared in the London Press of the treatment meted out to evacuees by the inhabitants of various reception areas, is at variance with my own experiences, and with those of all East Londoners who have their loved ones evacuated to Yorkshire.
JAMES F. BICKEND
London, E. 16.

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22/09/2026

Saltaire 100 years ago. Researched by Colin Coates
Taken from Shipley Times newspaper, September 1926, which was published every Friday. Stories, with links to biographies, including:-
MILL GIRL’S DEATH
Common Disease that Rarely Proves Fatal
A mill girl’s death from a rare disease was explained to the Bradford Deputy-Coroner (Mr H. E. Milnes) yesterday at an inquiry held into the death of Florence Caroline Bacon (14), of Constance Street, Saltaire...
HIS MIND A BLANK
SALTAIRE MAN’S ATTEMPT AT SU***DE
Richard Illingworth, a Saltaire fireman, was at Bradford West Riding Court on Monday (6 September) charged with attempting...
INJURED WHILE CHASING HIS HAT
Clarence Mounsey (25), labourer, of Shirley Street, Saltaire, on Saturday night (11 September) sustained a fracture...

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23/08/2026

New biographies added to Saltaire Village website, researched by Colin Coates
To find - Go to Colin Coates Research, and follow the links to Mill Workers, Extra Biographies, & WW2 Roll of Honour
https://saltairevillage.info/WW1_Colin_Coates.html
MILL WORKERS - Worked in Salts Mill
Crabtree, William Greaves Legard [Added 15 August 2026]
Gibson, Edith Alice (nee Hopkinson) [Added 15 August 2026]
Sturdy, Alice Maud (nee Eccles) [Added 15 August 2026]
Hopkinson, Walter [Added 15 August 2026]
Hopkinson, Reginald Theobald [Also WW2 Roll of Honour. Added 15 August 2026]
EXTRA BIOGRAPHIES - People who lived or worked in Saltaire
Rhodes, Thomas (b.1868) [Added 15 August 2026]
Sutton, Harold [Added 15 August 2026]
Sutton, Richard [Added 15 August 2026]
WW2 Roll of Honour - Saltaire
Sutton, James Richard [Added 15 August 2026]
Hopkinson, Reginald Theobald [Also a Mill Worker. Added 15 August 2026]
Hopkinson, Edgar Bernard [Added 15 August 2026]

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23/08/2026

Saltaire news, WW2 years, August 1944
Researched by historian Colin Coates
https://saltairevillage.info/WW2_Saltaire_Diary.html
Stories, including: SALTAIRE AIRMAN AWARDED D.F.C.
Flew Damaged Planes
Flight-Lieut. James Richard Sutton, who has been awarded the D.F.C. for keenness and devotion to duty in India, lives at 4 Victoria Road, Saltaire.
The official citation states: “On more than one occasion this officer has proved his skill and resource as a pilot by flying a damaged aircraft safely to base. His numerous operational sorties have included many attacks on Rangoon. He has also achieved much success on low-level operations.”
Aged 23, he is an old boy of the Salt Boys’ High School, and later went to Oxford University, where he was a member of the University Air Squadron. In 1941 he joined the R.A.F. and trained in America. In his school days he was a keen cricketer.

With link to more info on James Richard Sutton.
The website is updated every month.

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23/08/2026

Saltaire website updates: Saltaire 100 years ago, August 1926
Researched by historian, Colin Coates
https://saltairevillage.info/Saltaire_diary.html
Stories, including (with link to more info on Thomas Rhodes) :_
WIFE’S ORDEAL - HUSBAND FOUND HANGING AT SALTAIRE
When Mrs. Louisa Elizabeth Rhodes, of 6 Victoria Road, Saltaire, came downstairs yesterday morning (26 August) expecting to find her husband gone to work, she found that the key was still in the lock and the door bolted.
She made a search of the rooms but found nothing until she felt a draught coming up the basement stairs. On going into the yard at the back she found her husband, Thomas Rhodes, a wool-sorter, hanging by the clothes line in a disused coal house.
It is stated that Rhodes, who was 58 years of age, has been in indifferent health since an operation about 15 months ago.

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26/07/2026

Isreal is committing genocide.

15/07/2026

WW2 DIARY, SALTAIRE TIMES, JULY 1944
Researched by historian Colin Coates

Lots of stories, including :-

SALTAIRE SOLDIER KILLED
Never Seen Daughter

Mrs. Louie Smith, of 23 Jane Street, Saltaire, has received information that her husband, Lance Bombardier Ronald Smith, R.A., son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Smith, of 80, Hirstwood Road, Shipley, has been killed in action. ...

In civil life he was employed as a hairdresser at Marie’s, Leeds Road, Bradford. ...

Lance-Bombardier Smith leaves a daughter, aged three, whom he has never seen.

EMPLOYERS’ CALL FOR LENIENCY Workers’ Thefts

Pleas by two Bradford employers for leniency toward workmen who had admitted robbing them were made at Bradford City Court yesterday (13 July), but the Stipendiary Magistrate (Dr. F. J. O. Coddington), while taking note of them in his decisions, said that generally speaking his view in such cases, unless there were exceptional circumstances, was that the offenders should go to prison.

Harold Pilkington (39), a french polisher, of Ada Street, Queensbury, and Ernest Hoyle (29), a machinist, of Ada Street, Saltaire, both pleaded “Guilty” to thefts from Fred Holmes and Son (Bradford) Ltd., and a director of the firm described them as being his best workmen.

Pilkington was sent to prison for 10 weeks, and Hoyle was fined £7.