THE AIRE SCULPTURE TRAIL OPENED IN MAY 2013 The project is a collaboration The trail is an integral part This exciting development has “The Aire sculpture trail Hive is a community arts organisation between CBMDC Dept of of improving the use of the been created for the benefit was officially opened on based in Shipley that has been delivering high quality creative activity across Regeneration & Culture, footpath alongside the river of residents and visitors to the 25th of May 2013 by Bradford for the last 30 years. Newmason Properties Ltd, Aire between Baildon Bridge Saltaire and Shipley. It adds a Andrew Mason, Managing Canals & Rivers Trust, Hive and Saltaire. visitor attraction to the area Director of Newmason Hive uses creative thought and processes Community Arts Organisation and encourages the use of this Properties Ltd.” to engage communities in regeneration and develop the skills and confidence of At the top of Albert Road, turn left and and Wycliffe Primary School. footpath link. those involved. use the zebra crossing to cross Saltaire THE AIRE SCULPTURE TRAIL Saltaire Village Road. Continue straight ahead and then walk left around the corner to reach Heritage Walk Bingley Road. Stop here to browse or for a break if you wish before continuing. ROBERTS An ideal family walk through the streets of PARK Titus Salt’s Model Village. At the top of George Street you can see 9 how Lockwood and Mawson have used 8 10 The walk is suitable for most reasonably fit and occasional the natural slope of the land to their 6 7 11 walkers and can be accessed by wheelchair users. 12 advantage to create a dramatic view of 3 4 5 the church against the backdrop of the 1 2 13 hillside. Saltaire is named after Titus Salt and Turn left down the ramp and follow the 14 15 the River Aire, which runs through the path around to the right to cross the village. Titus Salt rose from modest River Aire by the modern footbridge. Salt believed leisure was good for beginnings to become one of the SALTS MILL BAILDON country’s most successful his workers’ health, particularly as a distraction from the temptations BRIDGE industrialists. He was deeply religious of alcohol. Public houses were not and a firm believer in the benefits of permitted in the village. A park was education. Salt had the village built so included in Salt’s plans from an early This trail, which starts from the bridge that he could make fine wool fabrics stage. It was completed in 1871. You on Victoria Road, is an integral part KEY using the most efficient methods can extend your tour by taking a walk of, improving the use of the footpath 1988. He makes sculptures for indoor 1 Octopus 4 Tortoises 7 Cat bath 10 Snowman 13 Submarine available and provide a healthy around it. In Britain the public town park Opportunities for adult learning and socialising alongside the River Aire between were provided in the Institute. Facilities included a environment for his workers. Henry first appeared in the 1830s. They quickly All houses were owned by the company. Baildon Bridge and Saltaire. lecture hall, library, gymnasium and games room. 2 Pirate ship 5 Fish & drawers 8 Bird 11 Dog 14 Frog on leaf Lockwood and William Mawson were became a symbol of civic pride and Regardless of the tenant’s status each had running This exciting development has been created for the benefit of residents and the young architects employed to prosperity. water, an outside toilet, gas lights and paved yards, making them exceptional for the period. Continue along Victoria Road past the visitors to Saltaire and Shipley, it adds a visitor attraction to the area and 3 Salt pot slug 6 Fish 9 Skater frog 12 Alpaca 15 Dinghy dog realise this vision. Saltaire took Retrace your steps back to the railway row of shops to complete your tour where encourages the use of this footpath link Newmason Properties Ltd, Canals & River Trust, Hive Community Arts Organisation and Wycliffe Primary School. twenty-five years to complete and bridge and look towards the mill chimney. Continue along Bingley Road and then it began at the railway bridge. turn left into Victoria Road. Grouped began with the building of the Mill in Can you feel a breeze behind you? Salt Holmfirth based artist Mick has been a was concerned about the harmful effects around Alexandra Square are the In designing and building Saltaire, Key 1851. professional sculptor since leaving Leeds Mick7 Kirkby Geddes of smoke produced by factories and so Almshouses. This pleasant green is one Titus Salt and his architects 8 of several open areas located at regular It is not just the people who have lived located his mill where the prevailing demonstrated that planning a town intervals along Victoria Road. Spaces in Saltaire that have benefited from westerly winds would blow the smoke was preferable to allowing them to like these were normally found only in the Heritage Walk Route Salt’s carefully planned ‘model’ away from the village. The Mill is clearly grow haphazardly. Salt’s example most affluent areas of Victorian towns. village. This tour highlights how many separated from the housing by the was followed by other industrialists Exhibition More ambitious open spaces and Start of Countryside Walks of our towns in the United Kingdom, allotments where workers could grow and gradually the campaign for town gardens became a feature of company HIGHER COACH ROAD and even overseas, have been their own food, another healthy planning gained momentum. More Start of The Aire Sculpture Trail towns, housing estates and suburbs influenced by ideas first brought distraction from the temptations of drink! than fifty years after Saltaire was designed after Saltaire. together successfully in Saltaire. This zoning approach was copied at begun, national and local Viewpoint Bandstand other company towns and is echoed governments accepted that the social Our tour begins on the bridge over the today by concentrating noisy and dirty problems created by the rapid Start of World Heritage Site Walk railway line. Look down Victoria Road businesses in industrial estates. expansion of industrial towns were towards the countryside beyond the their duty to tackle. With the 1909 village. Salt’s most influential idea was to Housing and Town Planning Act the Shops / cafes / restaurants / bars relocate his entire business to a foundations of the modern planning system were laid. Today this governs Public entrance greenfield site in order to escape the 3 Play how all land is used wherever we live area chaos of Bradford, where he had started Picnic Public disabled entrance his first factories. It was the country’s in the United Kingdom. area fastest growing town; the population had Parking exploded from 13,000 in 1801 to 104,000 Cyclists: Please give way Bus stop in 1851. Bradford was a crowded and Saltaire welcomes visitors, it is, however, a to others when using the footbridge unhealthy place to live with limited space working, living village. Please respect the canal towpath and warn Disabled Parking Forty years before the first state pension, elderly privacy of residents. them of your approach - for a factory on the scale Salt envisaged. or infirm persons of good ‘moral character’ were pedestrians have priority. Cycle parking stands Many industrialists followed Salt’s provided with a home and a pension in the 15 Almshouses. For detailed information on Railway station example and built factory towns of their Salt’s Mill housed a complete multi-stage M own such as Bournville (George manufacturing process transforming raw llama and travel, opening times of attractions, ideas on things Towpath Walk Cash machine Cadbury) and Port Sunlight (W H Lever). alpaca wool into finished luxury cloth. Continue downhill until you reach the The Aire to do in Saltaire and the and National 2 Sculpture Continue downhill along Victoria Road, Turn around and walk down the cobbled crossroads, where the former Hospital surrounding area, contact: Cycle Network Route Trail World Heritage Site boundary building stands at the corner. Use the Bingley (2.3 miles/3.75km) continues passing the impressive church on the left Albert Terrace. Then turn left into William to Baildon steps Bridge Places of interest within the World until you reach the canal bridge. Despite Henry Street. As you walk along notice puffin crossing to continue along Victoria 1 Road. You will soon reach two of the Heritage Site open to visitors its rural location Saltaire was not isolated. the different types of houses around you, VISIT BRADFORD 10 ALBERT TERRACE Salt thought like any modern business they reflect the status of their nineteenth finest buildings in the village, the School BRITANNIA HOUSE 1.1 Salts Mill and 1853 Gallery on the left and the Institute on the right. 12 BROADWAY M person. He wanted to distribute his century tenants. The three storey steps 2.2 Saltaire United Reformed They are set back from Victoria Road BRADFORD products quickly and cheaply so he houses originally provided shared Towpath Walk and Church with an open space in front to form BD1 1JF National Cycle chose a site with excellent transport links. lodgings for single workers. Small front Network Route 16 3.3 Roberts Park The Mill was built beside the railway, the gardens and more spacious houses were Victoria Square. Named in honour after Shipley (1mile/1.3km) 4.4 Victoria Road retail area motorway of the nineteenth century. The provided for the ‘overlookers’, the the Queen, Victoria Road linked all the 4 canal linked the village to Leeds and foremen of the factory floor. Turn right community facilities and important Telephone: 01274 433678 5.5 Gordon Terrace retail area buildings together, creating another Liverpool and there were good local road onto Caroline Street.