Saltaire is a workers town built by Titus Salt for workers in the massive textile mill he had built beside the Leeds Liverpool Canal in the Aire Valley. When built the town was in the countryside away from the smoke and squalor of Bradford. The town had neat rows of houses, a church, schools and a institution. Titus wasn't teetotal but he did not build a pub in his town. He didn't approve of public houses or workers who drank. He himself drank wine but his workers had to go to the pub in Shipley or Bradford for a pint or use the off licence of the local pharmacist. In the days of Chartist riots the best place for workers to meet was in church rather than plotting in a room above a pub. The workers employer was also their landlord. Rent came directly out the workers wages which helped keep them out of debt.