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  Titus Salt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Titus Salt (20 September 1803 - 29 December 1876), born in Morley, was a manufacturer and benefactor in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.
In 1848 Titus Salt became mayor of Bradford.
Salt was a benefactor to the Congregational Church.
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 Mulberry Alpacas in Ashland, Oregon: Titus and the Golden Fleece
Titus was born at the Old Manor House, Morley, on 20th of September 1803 and, according to the record in the family Bible at "four o'clock in the morning".
Titus was now the father of three children and happened to be in Liverpool to attend one of the public wool sales, when as he was passing through one of the dock warehouses he noticed a pile of dirty looking bales.
Salt and his secret team had the idea of binding alpaca weft with cotton or silk warps*; and this gave the characteristic lustre which made it such an attractive cloth, and produced at the same time a durable, relatively light and reasonably priced cloth which was well suited to the fashions of the day.
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 Titus Salt
Titus Salt, the son of Daniel Salt, a woolstapler, was born in Morley near Leeds on 20th September, 1803.
At the centre of the village was Salt's textile mill.
Salt employed young children in his factories and were totally opposed to the 1833 Factory Act that attempted to prevent children under the age of nine working in textile mills.
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 Buchanan Street Stamps - News and Articles - First Day Cover News
Titus Salt was born near Leads, the eldest of 6 children, in 1804.
Titus Salt was by now planning to build a new mill on the outskirts of Bradford with the aim of improving conditions for his workers and he chose a site on the River Aire adjoining the Leeds - Liverpool canal and the new railway station.
Salt's Mill continued to be used until well after the Second World War, but with the decline in the textile industry, the mill was virtually redundant by the 1980's.
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 Titus Salt. - Coursework.Info
Titus Salt Titus was the eldest of seven children, his father was once involved in the white cloth merchandise.
Titus had wanted to become a doctor but when he left school he went to work in Wakefield with a wool-stapler.
During this period Titus was constantly alert to the possibility of new materials and methods.
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Titus Salt, his ambition to be a doctor foiled by his inability to stand the sight of blood, is placed with Mr Jackson of Wakefield to learn woolstapling.
But Salt undoubtedly became the leading manufacturer of alpaca since, although other manufacturers were involved in the developing trade, Salt's experience with Donskoi wool made him the leading manufacturer of mixed fabrics (a wool weft on a cotton or silk warp) and thus of the most favoured fashion textile.
Titus Salt becomes Alderman and Magistrate; shortly afterwards he is appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of the West Riding.
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 Salt Family Tree and History
Titus was born in 1803 the son of Titus Salt who died in 1804 and whose father was Daniel Salt of Bradford.
Born in 1780, the youngest of eight children of Thomas and Alice Salt of Lichfield, Thomas Salt was a doctor in Lichfield for 50 years, and was the son of a tradesman from Bingley.
Myrtle Salt (1899-1986) daughter of Thomas Salt (born Echunga 1859), explained that she was told there were three brothers who came out from England - Robert, Harry and Tom - and that the Henry Salt mentioned in the book gave each brother one volume.
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 "The Daybook of Sir Titus Salt"| Learning Support Services | University of Bradford
The daybook is a small notebook in which Salt recorded personal notes of special transactions and experiments between 1834 and 1837.
Salt had seen this wool in Liverpool in 1834 and became interested in its use.
Titus Salt and his assistants spent over a year working on the problems involved in spinning alpaca, then pioneered the use of alpaca weft with cotton or silk warps ; this produced a durable lightweight fabric with a sheen.
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 Titus Salt and Saltaire - source related study. - Coursework.Info
Titus Salt and Saltaire - source related study.
GCSE History Essay - Titus Salt and Saltaire - source related study.
GCSE History Coursework Titus Salt and Saltaire 1.
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It was from him that Titus Salt bought some of the land on which Saltaire was built.
Writing of the township of Morley, to the south of Leeds and the birthplace of Titus Salt, local historian William Smith said that: "Oats were at one time a favourite cereal, and the crops were for home consumption, as oatcakes or 'haverbread' was the staple article of diet.
The Salt statue has since been removed from its original position outside Bradford Town Hall and is now at the north end of Lister Park, Manningham near Emm Lane and behind the pastiche of a 15thC gateway known, for some reason, as the Norman Arch.
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 Biographies of people at Salts Mill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Sir Titus Salt had Salts Mill built as a very grand textile mill, providing improved conditions for mill workers in the days of poverty and disease.
This continued for about a century, then the original function gradually became obsolete, and the Mill was in decline.
When Jonathan discussed his plans to create a permanent collection of Hockney art galleries, David was interested, and indeed a close friendship developed between them.
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