A memorial stone dedicated to Sir Titus Salt’s beloved dog is set to be restored and moved back to Saltaire.

The Black Labrador called Puck lived at Crow Nest mansion, Lightcliffe, with the Salts.

It was reported that Sir Titus would bring his dog to Saltaire and walk him around the Saltaire Congregational Church, now known as Saltaire United Reformed Church, Victoria Road, in the early hours of the morning before he started work. Puck died on September 27, 1876.

Sir Titus commissioned a memorial stone that was placed at the top of the steps that led down to the boathouse.

After Sir Titus death, three months after Puck’s, Crow Nest was sold and the family moved. The private Crow Nest Park Golf Club now occupies what was once home and garden for the Salts. In 1976, Michelle Moroney, daughter of historian Noel and his wife Sylvia, noticed a stone with a round top lying semi-exposed in the bank of the Crow Nest lake that Sir Titus had built.

Mr Moroney, who remembered the stone from his childhood, organised its removal from the deep mud and has looked after Puck’s stone for more than 40 years, taking care to transport it during each of four of their house moves.

Shipley-based Daniel Cooper, sculptor and stonemason, will now restore Puck’s stone, and this work, worth £300, will be sponsored by Salts Walks & Talks.

It is hoped the restored stone will be placed in the grounds of the Saltaire United Reformed Church.

Maria Glot, Salts Walks & Talks members, said: “I think it’s very important to get the stone back to Saltaire.

“Titus Salt provided jobs for thousands of people, but behind that he was this soft-hearted human being.”