Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet was a manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire.
Illustration of Salt, 1872
Bust of Titus Salt (not then a baronet) presented to him by his workforce in 1856 and now in Saltaire United Reformed Church.
Titus Salt's statue in Roberts Park
Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England. It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough. It had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 census, making it the second-largest subdivision of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area after Leeds, which is approximately 9 miles (14 km) to the east. The borough had a population of 552,644, making it the 9th most populous district in England.
Image: Manningham Mills (2019)
Image: Wool Exchange, Market Street, Bradford geograph.org.uk 4021324
Image: Fountain in City Par, Bradford (Taken by Flickr user 4th September 2012)
Image: Bradford Cathedral and entrance gates geograph.org.uk 5794400
