Sunshine on Salts

Blue sky, bright sunshine - and Salts Mill was looking every inch worthy of its status as the focal point of the Saltaire World Heritage Site. Opened in 1853 by its founder Sir Titus Salt, and at that time the largest and most technologically advanced factory in the world, it brought together on one site all the stages of the process of making fine woollen cloth. 

It closed as a textile mill in 1986 and faced dereliction, before it was saved by the entrepreneur Jonathan Silver, who had a vision to turn it into a centre for business and recreation, with restaurants, shops and art galleries alongside the commercial spaces. It's still run by his family, though Jonathan sadly died in 1997 and his wife Maggie in 2023. Now their daughter, Zoe, is the leading force behind the enterprise. See HERE.