UK's C19th model village: Saltaire

Titus Salt (1803-76) was born near Leeds, educated in Wakefield and served an apprenticeship with a wool-stapler in Wakefield . He moved to Bradford in 1821 with his parents & siblings at 18. In his years in Bradford he worked with William Rouse & Son , learning textile manufacture. Titus’s father, Daniel , founded a Bradford business as a wool-stapler . In 1824, Titus joined his dad’s business,…