Saltaire Village Website

17/05/2026

Saltaire - May 1944 - the war years
Researched by Colin Coates

Explore the Angus family (with links to their biographies) of 3 Albert Terrace, Saltaire - and lots more stories.

Mrs. B. Angus, of 3 Albert Terrace, Saltaire, has five sons serving in the Forces. Her husband lost his life in the last war.
Pte. Joseph Angus, R.A., (38), has been in the Army for fifteen years, and is at present serving overseas.
Pte. Jack Angus (28), Durham Light Infantry, has been in the Forces four years, and is now serving abroad.
Leslie Angus, R.A. (26), has been serving six years, and has just returned from serving abroad. Before enlistment he was employed by the Shipley Co-operative Society.
A.C. Joss Angus, R.A.F. (23), has been in the Forces four years and is now overseas. Previously he was employed at Salt's (Saltaire) Ltd.
A.C. Thomas Angus, R.A.F. (23), has been serving four years. He was employed at Salt's (Saltaire) Ltd.
Mrs. Angus also has two sons in law in the Forces.

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17/05/2026

Saltaire 100 years ago
Researched by Colin Coates

Updated every month, with stories extracted from The Shipley Times newspaper, with some links to biographies of people appearing in the news - Ernest Marston, John Ince and Doris Ward.

Everything you need to know about Saltaire. History, research, tourist information.

08/05/2026

Take a snowy flight over Baildon moor. The orginal music is beautiful too. Filmed and composed by Michael De Greasley. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXBO_MRZg8o

A winter drone flight over the lightly snow-covered landscape of Baildon Moor in West Yorkshire. Captured after a fresh winter snowfall under bright winter ...

13/04/2026

Want to check a name of someone who worked and/or lived in Saltaire?
Consult the BIG LIST - names in alphabetical order with links to biographies researched by Colin Coates - online and updated monthly.

https://saltairevillage.info/database/Saltaire_biographies_by_Colin_Coates.pdf

13/04/2026

New and updated biographies added to Saltaire mill workers:

Wakefield, Amy (nee Newman) [Added 1 April 2026]
Newman, Henry [Added 1 April 2026]
Ogden, William [Added 1 April 2026]
Newboult, Ada (nee Newman) [Added 1 April 2026]
Grange, Ernest [Added 1 April 2026]
Burke, Harold [Added 1 April 2026]
Smith, Mary Catherine (nee Lambert) [Added 1 April 2026]
Lee, John Charles [Added 1 April 2026]
Martin, Alexander Hannah [Added 1 April 2026]
Smith, William Littlewood [Updated 1 April 2026]
Grange, Alfred [Updated 1 April 2026]
Lambert, Arthur [Updated WW1 Roll of Honour / Mill Worker - 4 April 2026]

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13/04/2026

Saltaire, WW2 Diary, April 1944
Researched by Colin Coates

FOUR SONS SERVING
Saltaire Brothers Meet in Italy

With links to biographies in text and more stories, including:

Mr. and Mrs. Sowman, of 19 William Henry Street, Saltaire, have received news by air mail that two of their sons have met in Italy.

Gunner Sowman has been in the Army since the outbreak of war; Leading Aircraftman Sowman, whose wife lives at 31 Baildon Road, Shipley, joined the R.A.F. nearly three years ago.

A third son, Driver Jack Sowman, is serving in the Home Forces. A fourth son, Private James M. Sowman, R.A.M.C., died of wounds in Madagascar.

JOHN SALT
(John Scarlett Alexander Salt (1905–1947) – son of Gordon Locksley Salt, grandson of Titus Salt jnr.)

AMERICAN wireless listeners to British programmes prefer Northern accents to “snooty upper class voices,” said Mr. John Salt, the B.B.C.’s Deputy North American Director—temporarily home from the States—in an interview tonight at Broadcasting House.

Mr. Salt is a member of the well-known West Riding woollen textile family of that name. He has named his young son, Daniel, after that Daniel Salt, of Shipley, whose son became Sir Titus Salt and the head of the great firm of Salt’s (Saltaire).

From 1936 to 1939 the B.B.C.’s North Regional director, Mr. Salt has been with the Corporation in New York since just after America entered the war. He said tonight that on the evidence of listener research investigations the number of American listeners to B.B.C. programmes has increased during the past two years in the face of the most severe competition.

13/04/2026

What was happening in Saltaire, 100 years ago?
Researched by Colin Coates

Lots of news including...

Saltaire Hospital
Individual out-patients, 137; attendances, 647; operations, 27; massage treatment, 48; dental treatment, 12; one paying patient had been admitted and was still in residence; at the commencement of the month there were 12 non-paying patients, since admitted 33, and 38 discharged, leaving seven in residence.

Wedding
At Bradford Cathedral, on Wednesday (21 April), the wedding took place between Mr. Wilfred Ryder, only son of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ryder, Great Horton Road, Bradford, and Miss Eunice Gertrude Martin, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alexander H. Martin, 57 Albert Road, Saltaire. The ceremony was conducted by the Rev. C. H. Pauling, and Mr. Coates was at the organ.

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22/03/2026

Photo added to Frederick Harvey Greaves' biography. Frederick served in WW1 and lived in Jane Street, and Mary Street.
Researched by Colin Coates.
https://saltairevillage.info/WW1_biography_G_001.html

09/03/2026

BIOGRAPHIES of people who lived and/or worked in Saltaire.

See the BIG LIST, with over 1800 names with links to biographies, researched by Colin Coates.

Latest names added:
Codling, Jane Ann (nee Scott)
Scott, Joseph
Ellis, Joseph Whitaker
Metcalfe, Sarah (nee Scott)
Portsmoth, William James
Scott, John Thornton,
Margaret (nee Scott)
Heaton, Seth
Milner, Ernest
Smith, Allan
Firth, Jack Richardson
Portsmouth, Alexander
Portsmouth, Leslie James
Milner, Jack

09/03/2026

SALTAIRE in WW2, MARCH 1944
Researched by Colin Coates, updated monthly

News and stories including:
BOAT HOUSE ESCAPADE OF NINE SHIPLEY JUVENILES

Nine Shipley boys aged 11 to 15 who did wanton and senseless damage to a boat house, boats, and canoes, leaving one canoe in the yard of the Saltaire Congregational Church and causing another to drift over a waterfall, were summoned at Bingley Juvenile Court yesterday (31 March) for doing malicious damage to the Bradford Amateur Rowing Club’s property at Hirst Wood, Shipley.

In all my 33 years’ police experience I have never known of such irresponsible, wanton, and senseless damage...

SALTAIRE MAN’S COMMISSION

Mrs. A. Gott, of 3 Amelia Street, Saltaire, has been informed by her husband, Jack Gott, that he has been awarded his wings and a commission as a navigator, in South Africa, where he has been training. Before joining the R.A.F. V.R. in 1942, he was a member of the N.F.S. and before that he worked at Salts (Saltaire) Ltd.

Pilot Officer Gott was at one time a member of the Shipley A.T.C. He is also a deacon at Saltaire Congregational Church.

WINGS

Sergeant-Pilot Jack Firth, R.A.F., aged 21, younger son of Mrs. A. Firth, Victoria Road, Saltaire, was recently awarded his wings after training in Canada. Before joining the R.A.F. Sgt.-Pilot Firth worked with his mother at their confectionery business at Saltaire.

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