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Shipley College
Shipley College is a General Further Education college in West Yorkshire, England, The college is a small place mainly based in the village of Saltaire. Other Sites are used for Lifestyle and Adult Learning and include local schools and Community Centres. Shipley College rents a number of the buildings in Saltaire from The Salt Foundation - these are the Salt Building, Mill building and Exhibition Building. Victoria Hall is also partly leased by the college. All buildings are within walking distance of each other. The College reception, Student Services and Enrolment office are based in the Salt Building.
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Victoria Hall, Saltaire
Victoria Hall, Saltaire (originally the Saltaire Club and Institute) is a Grade II* listed building in the village of Saltaire, near Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, designed by architects Lockwood and Mawson.
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Saltaire Festival
Saltaire Festival occurs each September in the village of Saltaire, a World Heritage Site in the Metropolitan District of Bradford, West Yorkshire.
The Festival was founded in 2003 to celebrate 200 years since the birth of Titus Salt and the 150th anniversary of the date that he founded Saltaire. It now occurs every year for 10 days in September, attracting some 30,000 people to celebrate the local community and its heritage through the arts. Events include family and children's activities, live music, markets, drama and spoken word performances, exhibitions, and food and drink.
It is self-funding and not-for-profit, run by a registered charity staffed by a small team of local volunteers.
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Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the River Aire, the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Salts Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford. The mill ceased production in 1986, and was converted into a multifunctional location with an art gallery, restaurants, and the headquarters of a technology company. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
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Peace Museum
The Peace Museum in Saltaire, West Yorkshire is the only museum in the UK dedicated to the history and stories of peace, peacemakers and the peace movement.
The initial idea of creating a peace museum arose in the mid-1980s from Gerald Drewett of the Give Peace a Chance Trust. In 1990 this was carried forward when Shireen Shah, an MA student at Bradford University’s Peace Studies Department, wrote a dissertation proposing a ‘Museum for Peace’. Two years on, the International Network of Museums for Peace held its first conference at the University of Bradford in 1992, during which it was proposed that a Peace Museum be established in Bradford. A committee was established to seek finance and general support for the idea. Initially called ‘The National Peace Museum Project’, the museum was established in 1994 through a five-year grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Foundation and operated from a temporary site in Bradford in the Wool Exchange. In 1998 the museum moved to the top floor of 10 Piece Hall Yard, in Bradford city centre.
The museum has a varied temporary exhibition programme, hosting several exhibitions and displays throughout the year. Past exhibitions have included 'A force for peace? The History of European Cooperation' (ended 2016) exploring the peace history behind the European Union, 'Challenging the Fabric of Society' showcasing the protest banners that are part of its textile collection (until March 2017), and 'Remembering the Kindertransport' to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day (until April 2017).
The museum closed its Piece Hall Yard site in 2020 and reopened at Salts Mill, Saltaire, in August 2024. The museum's artifacts had been stored in the basement of Salts Mill in the interim.