Shipley College, our local Further Education college, cares for and uses many of the original public buildings in Saltaire. Without that, the village would probably not be thriving in the way it is. The Exhibition Building opened in 1887, built by Titus Salt Junior in memory of his father Sir Titus. The building costs were supposed to be covered by the Royal Yorkshire Jubilee Exhibition held in 1887 to mark 50 years of Queen Victoria's reign. In the end the sum raised wasn't sufficient but it seems Titus pressed ahead anyway, determined to add an adult education facility to the existing educational provision in Saltaire. It was built as the School of Art and Science, later becoming Shipley Technical College.
The only recent addition to our historic village (below) was added on the same site in 2015, designed by local architects Rance Booth Smith and named the Jonathan Silver Building in memory of the entrepreneur who bought and renovated Salts Mill after the textile business closed down. It was specifically intended to accommodate young people with learning difficulties and mobility challenges, free of the barriers they often face in accessing further education.
Adjacent to it is the college's horticultural training facility: greenhouses and gardens, with an allotment across the road.
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