SIR – Paying a visit to Salts Mill, I was watching a video in what was the Tops Warehouse, part of Illingworth and Morris, where I started work in 1974.

I was quite disgusted by the rewriting of history when the presenter on the film of Jonathan Silver linked the regeneration of Saltaire with the renaissance of Leeds.

Is there not anywhere now where that place will not lay a claim to?

Saltaire is very much a Bradford story. Sir Titus at different times was both Lord Mayor and MP for Bradford. His statue can be found in Roberts Park which, if you enter from Coach Road, you will see was given to the City of Bradford and also to Lister Park.

The jobs in Salts were advertised in the Telegraph & Argus, not in a Leeds newspaper. Come on Bradford, let us unite and stand up for what is ours. We have a city that has far more character than Leeds, a district that has far more beauty within it and is a better place to live than Leeds and, having been the wool capital of the world which was the richest city in Europe in 1910, a more diverse population than Leeds.

I have lived in the district since 1954 and have been a student in Leeds, Hull and Manchester and completed a Government training course in North Wales and choose to live in Saltaire.

The annoyance I felt at the video prompted me to walk to Cartwright Hall to see David Hockney’s Big Trees painting which he has given to the nation.

Iain Morris, Caroline Street, Saltaire