Saltaire. According to Source two the same year Titus Salt a mill-owner who found the method of using alpaca wool for lamas, had an idea for a model village.

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In Source 4 Saltaire is shown to be in 1850 to be next to nothing. Just green fields and a small mill (Dixon’s mill) a canal and train track running though it. What we now call Victoria road was called Dixon mill road. This was a quite area three miles from the hassle of Bradford. It was a near perfect place for a model village. According to Source two the same year Titus Salt a mill-owner who found the method of using alpaca wool for lamas, had an idea for a model village. He saw a way of leading his workers into a new way of life, away from the stink and stews of Bradford at the time to a new place, a village to be built among fields and woods, with good fresh air and as much sunlight as could be had from a sky which touched the Pennines. He sought to create a worker's utopia with striking landscapes and substantial architecture.  The place was Saltaire, Salt after himself and Aire because of the river that runs though it. He bought the entire site and started to build the very next year. There was a railway and a canal to bring in raw materials and take away the finished cloth this cut cost as there where no need to build transportation ways where needed as they were already there. To perfect the site was to demolish Dixon’s mill.

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   Salt saw the village as we do today. But his dream wasn’t fulfilled over night it took another twenty-one year to complete. This was an extremely large change to the site of Saltaire. Firstly the Salts mill the train station and canal stop was built the mill took two years to complete. Also being the largest mill in the world at completion in 20th September 1853 Saltaire mill is opened on Titus Salt's fiftieth birthday. The Mill represented the bleeding edge technology of its time integrating all the processes of the trade. This development had been made possible by the progressive ...

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