Property News · September 2, 2016

Let’s move to Saltaire: Titus Salt’s grand and immaculate West Yorkshire haven


A stunning world heritage site, with swanky flats in mills and Italianate terracesWhat’s going for it? A confession: I have a dark side. Most days, I love the hurly hullabaloo of life. Other days, though, I get all prim. I neaten skew-whiff coasters on the coffee table. I get enraged at litter-droppers. There’s a dictator lurking inside me. Someone like Titus Salt. Titus had opinions about neatness. He ruled over the model village he built for his workers like a benevolent Gradgrind, with one hand giving them the luxuries of backyards, loos and bathhouses (pimp my slum!), the other building tidy, grid-iron avenues in one, and only one, style of architecture, banning washing lines and enforcing a two-baths-a-week rule on his employees. My kind of man. I’m sure he had opinions about coasters, too. The result? More profit in his textile mill. More beauty in his streets. Slightly less smelly people.The case against The rest of the world beyond: messy. Listed to the hilt and a world heritage site, so curb your grand designs, lest you offend Salt’s. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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