Open every day from Wed Dec 18 – Tues Dec 24 – early close 4pm Wed Dec 24
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Open every day Fri Dec 27 – Thur Dec 31, early close 4pm Thur Dec 31
Closed New Year’s Day
Open every day Thur Jan 2 – Sun Jan 5
Then back to our usual opening hours of Wed – Sun.
Different areas have very different hours so please check opening times.
A very merry Christmas and a happy new year! With love from all at Salts xxx
Please see opening times for more information.
Stunning classic, modernist furniture, homewares and designer gifts: in short, everything for the Home. Brands include Acme, Alessi, Cassina, Chemex, G-Plan, Fritz Hansen, Knoll, Kartell, Marimekko, Iittala, Ritzenhoff, Vitra plus many more. This is the place to find the beautiful, the useful and the unusual.
CALL 01274 530770 or 01274 531163
The World's largest selection of medieval, renaissance and baroque musical instruments. Come and see recorders, viols, lutes, harps, crumhorns, harpsichords, spinets, shawms, even hurdy-gurdies - as well as sheet music, CDs and accessories. A must for the musically minded.
See https://earlymusicshop.com/pages/opening-times
CALL 01274 288 100
Yorkshire Music School teaches you how to play in a relaxed and spacious environment. Here you'll develop your talents, build your confidence and connect with other like-minded musicians. Music tuition for all ages and all levels of ability including guitar, piano, vocals, drums, bass, rock band, ukulele, junior piano course, acoustic/classical guitar.
WEB: www.ymss.co.uk
EMAIL: info@ymss.co.uk
TEL: 01274 595954
Browse - the Salts Online Shop for posters, signed and special books and stationery.
The Peace Museum
The Peace Museum is dedicated to telling the histories of peace movements.
For their seasonal opening hours, please visit www.peacemuseum.org.uk.
When Sir Titus Salt built Salts Mill in 1853 it was all about seeing business through fresh eyes. Today a host of forward-looking companies continue that tradition. The current list of tenants includes a home-grown FTSE listed group, environmental and landscape architects, international software support agents, electronics manufacturers and many others.
Carlton Fine Art and Antiques is not just a traditional antique shop, dealing in fine furniture, paintings and quality objets d'art, but is also an 'Antique Centre' with approx. 40 dealers selling a wide range of antiques and collectables. The aim is to cater for every taste and pocket.
Please contact Carlton Antiques for their latest opening hours.
CALL 01274 592 103
Mountains of excellent outdoor kit and friendly, knowledgeable guides to help you choose exactly what you need. There's kit here for grownups and kids too: footwear, waterproofs, fleeces, rucksacks... Brands include Rohan, Berghaus, Sprayway, Lowe Alpine and Mountain Equipment.
EMAIL info@trekandtrailsaltaire.co.uk
CALL 01274 589 692
All Terrain Cycles is one of the biggest and best-stocked shops in the country. Here you'll find a massive range of leading brands from all the various cycling disciplines available to touch, feel and often even try before purchase.
See the website to check holiday hours.
CALL 01274 588 488
A leading contemporary jewellery gallery showcasing renowned designers and emerging talents from Britain and abroad. Much of the work on show pushes and blurs the boundaries between fine art, jewellery, design and fashion - resulting in pieces that may be best described as wearable art. As well as its core collection, the gallery organises a number of changing exhibitions each year.
WEB: www.kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk
EMAIL: info@kathlibbertjewellery.co.uk
CALL 01274 599 790
Life Goes on by Ian Beesley is showing in Gallery 2 and will continue well into 2025. Open Weds – Sun 10-5, admission free.
The 1853 Gallery - named after the year that the mill opened - is unique. It displays a large number of David Hockney's paintings, etchings, and drawings. Art materials and art books are for sale too, dotted around this vast and inspiring space. Like all of the Mill it's free to enter.
enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk / 01274 531163
We are always planning special events. Keep informed on Instagram @saltsmillofficial, twitter @SaltsMill or on Facebook.
The Arrival of Spring will close on January 6th 2025 so last chance to see this is on Sun Jan 5th. This gallery and Café in to the Opera will be closed throughout Jan 2025 as we work to install a new David Hockney exhibition and do maintenance in the Café.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC AT SALTS
Come and enjoy some festive music! Admission free, very limited seating.
Sunday 8th December: Bradford Concert Band, 1853 Gallery, ground floor, 2pm-4pm
Saturday 14th December: Bradford Voices Community Choir. Their first set will be at 12 noon in the main entrance on the ground floor, then they’ll move up to the bookshop on the second floor.
Sunday 15th December: Cantabile Choir, 11:30 am and 1pm, 1853 Gallery, ground floor.
Sunday 22nd December: Bradford Concert Band, 1853 Gallery, ground floor, 2-4pm.
Bradford 2025 City of Culture: All sorts of really exciting things will be happening at Salts in 2025. Stay tuned, many treats are planned!
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Please email enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk with the date and time you’d like to visit and the number in your party. Then we’ll send you a booking form
Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, West Yorkshire BD18 3LA
Driving with satnav? Use postcode BD17 7DR and see directions below.
Tel 01274 531163
Saltaire is 4 miles north of Bradford, 15 minutes from the M606 and the motorway network. Follow the brown road signs from the motorway. The Saltaire train station is just across the road from the Mill. It takes 15 minutes to Leeds or Bradford.
Sat nav users: entering our correct postcode brings you into the wrong side of the Mill for the car park. Instead, please set your Sat Nav to BD17 7DR. When it tells you you've reached your destination, keep going along Salts Mill Road following the brown signs - you'll pass a big red brick chimney on your left as you cross the canal and The Waterfront, an office building, on your right, then you'll see the mill at the end of the road. Proceed through the gates into the free Salts visitors car park on the right.
The carpark is open in line with our trading hours. It is closed and locked at the end of the day.
Please email enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk with the date and time you’d like to visit and the number in your party. Then we’ll send you a booking form
01274 531163
Come along Salts Mill Road, pass the 'Visitors Parking' sign and continue past the chimney where you will see a glass canopy with disabled parking spaces. Level access to all public areas and the lift is through the tunnel opposite these parking spaces. There’s an accessible toilet on the ground floor and the 2nd floor. We have a wheelchair you can book for your visit, please call 01274 5311633 / email enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk and give us a few days notice.
For additional information or help please call 01274 531163 during opening hours.
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Salts Mill is open Weds – Sun. We’re closed Mon and Tues. Open most bank holiday Mondays. We’re always closed Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Year’s Day.
Please scroll right down for seasonal opening times, school holiday hours etc and note different areas have different hours.
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1853 Gallery, Salts Book & Poster Shop, The Home, Gallery 2: Weds – Fri 10-5, Sat and Sun 9:30-5.
People & Process and The Arrival of Spring: Weds – Sun 10-4. Note: Arrival of Spring & Café in to the Opera closing Jan 6th 2025 for a new installation opening end Jan 2025.
Espresso Bar: open weekends from noon according to demand
Trek & Trail and Gold Lark Jewellery: Weds – Sun 10-5
All Terrain Cycles: see www.allterraincycles.co.uk
Carlton Antiques: see www.antiques-atlas.com/carltonfineart
Early Music Shop: see www.earlymusicshop.com
The Peace Museum: see www.peacemuseum.org.uk
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Salts Diner open Wed – Fri 10-4:30, weekends 9:30-4:30
Service times for Salts Diner:
Weds – Fri & bank hols: breakfast 10-11, lunch 11:45-3:30, close 4:30pm. Drinks, cakes & toasted items sold throughout.
Sat & Sun: breakfast 9:30-10:45, lunch 11:45-3:30, close 4:30. Drinks, cakes and toasted items sold throughout.
Booking advised for the Diner, please email diner@saltsmill.org.uk / call 01274 530533
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Café in to the Opera open Wed – Sun and bank holidays 10-4 but note the Café will close on Jan 6 2025 for café maintenance and a new gallery installation.
Café in to the Opera serves cakes, sandwiches and light bites. Last orders for food 3:30pm. The café is walk-in only, we don’t take reservations.
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CHRISTMAS 2024 – we’re open extra days:
Open every day Weds 18 Dec – Tues 24 Dec. Early closing 4pm Dec 24.
Closed Christmas Day and Boxing Day
Open Fri Dec 27 – Tues Dec 31. Early closing 4pm Tues Dec 31.
Closed New Year’s Day.
Open Thur Jan 2 – Sun Jan 5. Then back to the usual pattern of Weds – Sun.
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Guide dogs & assistance dogs are of course most welcome. Small dogs, carried by their owners, can enter the galleries and shops but not restaurants. Dogs which can’t be carried aren’t allowed.
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Salts Mill is a place for art, dining and shopping in one stunning historic building. Parking and entrance is free. Inside you can admire our very big collection of works by David Hockney, be inspired by the very best in independent retail and enjoy our bustling restaurants and cafes. You can also learn about the history of the Mill in our People and Process and Saltaire History exhibitions (but if you're after a hefty dose of industrial history try Bradford Industrial Museum).
We often offer special events and exhibitions. In recent years we've worked with photographer Kevin Cummins, poets Simon Armitage and Tony Harrison, the Yorkshire Fashion Archive and Cloth & Memory to name but a few.
The mill is also a place of work for over 1000 people - home to a variety of businesses from technology to landscape architecture and graphic design. To join us, please see space to rent.
The Mill opened in 1853, the centerpiece of Sir Titus Salt's utopian vision of Saltaire. He built the adjoining model village to house his workers. Cloth production at Salts finally ceased in 1986, and the following year the mill was purchased by the late Jonathan Silver, who re-imagined it as a place where culture and commerce could thrive together.
In 2001, Saltaire became a UNESCO World Heritage Site. UNESCO noted: "Saltaire is an outstanding and well preserved example of a mid 19th century industrial town... The layout and architecture of Saltaire admirably reflect mid 19th century philanthropic paternalism, as well as the important role played by the textile industry in economic and social development."
To shop online please visit https://saltsmillshop.co.uk/
To contact us please phone 01274 531163 or email:
Salts Diner and Café in to the Opera: diner@saltsmill.org.uk
Galleries, bookshop, poster shop: enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk
Online shop: onlineshop@saltsmill.org.uk
The Home: thehome@saltsmill.org.uk
Salts Estates, property rentals & accounts: post@saltsmill.org.uk
For other businesses in the mill, please see their own websites.
Our postal address is:
Salts Estates Ltd
Salts Mill
Victoria Road
Saltaire
Bradford BD18 3LA
(Driving? Please see directions
Instagram: @saltsmillofficial. Twitter: @SaltsMill
3rd Floor Gallery - Our stunning show, 'The Arrival of Spring' by David Hockney, is open on the third floor. This set of original works were drawn by David on his iPad in 2011, and printed at an incredible scale.
The Arrival of Spring and Cafe in to the Opera will be closed for improvements from 6th January 2025. For 2025, the Arrival of Spring Gallery will host a different exhibition, details to be confirmed.
enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk / 01274 531163
PEOPLE + PROCESS: SALTS HISTORY EXHIBITION
People and Process tells the story of the Mill through objects great and small: machinery, clothing, art - even a precious plate from the lavish opening banquet of 1853, to which Sir Titus Salt invited 2,440 workers and 1,310 guests. Sir Titus’s original boardroom furniture is on display, and a film about the history of the Mill and Village plays in an adjoining room.
enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk / 01274 531163
The Poster Shop at Salts Mill sells licensed David Hockney posters and postcards that will brighten your walls and cheer your heart. Framed or unframed - the choice is yours.
You can browse almost all of the beautiful posters we sell at saltsmillshop.co.uk, but the poster shop has more choice, including many framed items.
EMAIL enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk
CALL: 01274 531 163
Browse through inspiring art materials right next to original works from one of the world's greatest living artists. Brushes, paints, pens, crayons, pencils, sketch pads and much more, as well as a huge selection of art books.
enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk / 01274 531163
Beautifully curated, ever changing books to browse through and buy in an enormous, light-filled space. The bookshop is especially loved for its wonderful children's section and its poetry offering, but all minds are generously catered for here - philosophy, gardening, eating and drinking, fact, fiction, you name it - as well as cards and gifts. You can browse just a few of the beautiful, signed and collectable books we sell at saltsmillshop.co.uk, but the real-world book shop sells thousands more, from the humblest paperback to the hugest art book.
EMAIL enquiries@saltsmillbooks.co.uk
CALL 01274 531 163
Salts Diner is at the heart of Salts Mill. You can grab a coffee or have a 3-course meal in this big, bustling space. Choose from the menu that includes Caesar salad or Salade Nicoise, try a Saltburger or try one of our daily specials. See our latest menus here. Breakfast menu here.
Booking advised, please email diner@saltsmill.org.uk / call 01274 531163
TEL: 01274 530 533
Visit the Espresso Bar for drinks, sandwiches and cakes.
Salts Mill’s best-kept secret, Café in to the Opera got its name as it stood at the entrance to a display of David Hockney's opera sets that were on display here. You can still eat your lunch under David’s huge hand-painted mural. The Café serves cakes, sandwiches and savoury light bites. See a sample menu here.
Cafe in to the Opera will be closed for improvements from 6th January 2025, full timings to be confirmed.
EMAIL: diner@saltsmill.org.uk
CALL 01274 531163