On a recent trip to Northern England, we travelled from Liverpool to the Brontë Parsonage in Haworth. On our way to Manchester, we stopped at Salts Mill, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. I plan to return to blogging about some of the things we experienced.

Often, the day of travel is lost due to transportation. In this case, we had our luggage with us, and thankfully, it didn’t hinder our sightseeing. There is an excellent app called City Mapper, which I find very useful. You plot your destination, and all available ways of transportation pop up in a second. Our travel companion is a weaver, so anything related to weaving interests her. This area of Northern England has a rich history of sheep and wool mills. This one has a special history as the founder, Sir Titus Salt (1803-1873), was an innovator, industrialist and philanthropist.

Raw materials were brought to the mill, and the factory produced fine-quality cloth.

Saltcollection.org is an excellent page about his life if you want to know more. His legacy is that he created the industrial community of Saltaire. He built shops and housing for the workers, a park, a church, and schools. When he died, as many as 100.000 people followed his funeral cortège.

The next chapter of this story will follow…