Join us for the first of our virtual Study Tours, led by Neil Jackson, SAHGB President, through the streets of Saltaire.
This virtual tour will visit one of the most extensive and complete model towns of the nineteenth century. Built between 1853 and 1875 by Sir Titus Salt to provide housing for the workers at his Alpaca wool mill, Saltaire was designed as a complete town by the Bradford firm of architects Lockwood and Mawson. This tour will lead visitors through the streets from the picturesque, Italianate terraces of William Henry Street to the humble houses along Whitlam Street and the grand villas of Albert Road. In demonstrating how the town developed in seven building phases over almost twenty-five years, it will introduce the visitor to the changes in plan, appearance and orientation of the houses, and the different social hierarchies which characterised their use. The tour will also take the visitor past the public buildings which, from the Institute to the Congregational Church, served the inhabitants of the town. Sadly, the tour will not be able to stop at a pub as might be usual on such events because Saltaire, at the express direction of its founder, did not have one.
Lockwood and Mawson, Salts Mill, Saltaire (1851–53)
Neil Jackson is the joint author, with Jo Lintonbon and Bryony Staples of the book, Saltaire: The Making of a Model Town (Reading: Spire Books, 2010). As an historian of nineteenth-century architecture, he is also the author of Nineteenth-Century Bath: Architects and Architecture (Bath: Ashgrove Press, 1991, 1998) as well as studies of constructional polychromy published in the Society’s journal, Architectural History (vols. 43, 45 and 47). His most recent book, Japan and the West: An Architectural Dialogue (London: Lund Humphries, 2019) discusses the influence of Western architecture on Japan during the late-Tokugawa and Meiji eras (1854-1912), and the effect that Japanese architecture had on the West.
This event will take place via Zoom. Registration has now closed.
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