In this day, employees seem to be treated as an inconvenience, rather than a valued part of a company but one man, Sir Titus Salt, thought quite the reverse and built his employees a village - Saltaire (Yorkshire, England).
Titus Salt opened a mill in 1853 on his 50th birthday and unlike the pictures conjured up in a Dickens novel, he wanted a model village (designed by Lockwood and Mason) to house his workers. Saltaire, was a village built on the proceeds of fabric produced from alpaca wool and consisted of the mill, 850 houses, 22 streets, 45 almshouses, 40 shops, a club and institute, a school, church, fire service, hospital and post office.
