Forster Square Station Bradford. Old Forster Square station views of the area of Valley Goods Yards.

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

The people of Bradford deserve better than what they get. They really are the most down to earth people I have ever come across. It's just a pity that their council stiff them all the time. You just wouldn't believe the buildings they have lost over the years. Bradford you have a special place in my hearth and I wish you all the best in the future.

[@red110tdi]

Absolutely true all what you say there, a fair few people that ruined Bradford have a lot to answer for

[@hazelisaacs2201]

Cheer up, they’ve still got the Arndale Centre and if all else fails, Leeds is only a short train ride away.

[@Thirdfish]

Bradford is now a dumping ground for migrants, awful place.

[@pershaankhan1662]

As a bradfordian I agree. Looking at old photos of what bradford was, and to see now what it has become is actually quite depressin'.. And i'm only talkin' about the great architecture the city once had.

[@markcf83]

.....as does all areas with Labour run councils.....

[@letsmooch4857]

Wow i remember that rickerty old foot bridge!!

[@Jimmy-z3s6k]

Wow you must of seen some changes in Bradford

[@gavinreid8351]

Most of the area shown in this film is a retail​ park . Most of the land is for car parking. Almost unrecognizable from this. Very interesting film.

[@transportinterests5371]

Cheers!

[@allanwhiteley6199]

I crossed that bridge on many occasions when visiting the Mecca dance hall. 1960s 70s

[@Jimmy-z3s6k]

❤

[@hazelisaacs2201]

Can we all please take a moment to reflect in appreciation of the true depths of that muzak? Imagine John Peel's voice gently intoning over the fade out "and that was just the first five minutes of experimental post - punk trio Peter Hartingdon's Audible Prolapse with the first release from their new concept album 'Stylophone Migraine.' The extended remix is just over two hours long..."

[@transportinterests5371]

Thank you so much! I’m so very glad that you appreciate and value horrible music such as this. It’s not easy.

[@hazelisaacs2201]

@@transportinterests5371 Peter Hartingdon’s Audible Prolapse concept album has a certain earnest, yet aimless surreal quality that’s almost impossible to replicate; reminiscent of teen angst poetry covering topics such as why his parents & teachers cannot possibly understand the depths nor the complexity of his emotions and unrequited love for the most beautiful sixth-former on the school bus who’s way out of his league and is already going out with a guy who works in Waterstones & has an electric guitar. Two committed but inexperienced first-year humanities students attempting to argue politics while drinking home-made white cider cocktails out of plastic yogurt pots on a faux-leather banquette draped in tie-dye fleamarket bedspread machine-embroidered with a rudimentary silhouette of Che Guevara. Two miniature terriers growling, staring & yapping at each other from the comfort of their respective owners’ coddling arms. They both know there’s never going to be any action… and yet they are equally compelled to play their parts in the hopeless scene as it unfolds to the strains of Stylophone Migraine. Non- copyright soundtracks have their own unique fascination.

[@TheAdArchive]

I remember Forster Square station from being a kid and strangely how similar it was to the old Kings Cross... it as a bigger station than the Interchange... when they started to demolish it I broke into it with my camera and actually have lots of old photos of the huge clock etc that was the centrepiece of the main concourse.

[@neilrushworth5958]

I would be very interested in having , or buying copies , if that's possible?

[@transportinterests5371]

Just download the clip? Or screen capture? Cheers

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

Late 1960s it used to be a very good place and lots of pennies and crowns used to fall from the bridge unto the railway track and they use to keep a lot of horses on the grass verge gateway going down from midland Road

[@BradfordThroughTheLens]

Thanks for upload

[@tinsley.tmd.41a52]

One of the later Minder episodes with George Cole was partly filmed in the old station then out of use, it was 1994 from memory. The bars and odd retail unit were still open a while after the transition from old to new. Fast forwards to 2022 and they are now talking about moving the station again at forster sq & Interchange and trying to build a better & bigger joined up hub. Halifax is already planned and starting soon for complete rebuilding.

[@michaelgledhill3772]

Great video.

[@richardhalliday159]

Very interesting film, as a kid we would visit my grandparents at 188 Midland Road next to Hollywell Ash Lane ( next to Bradford City ) long since demolished, very grim, dark foggy area, all the stonework black with soot, dimly lit street gas lamps, a constant stench in the air from the electricity power station, the gas works and the busy goods yard , can you imagine negotiating the railway footbridge in the dark ? frightening - the good old days - I don’t think so.

[@Jimmy-z3s6k]

Where did you get the footage from please ?

[@transportinterests5371]

@@Jimmy-z3s6k I took the video some years ago. Cheers.

[@neilrushworth5958]

I didn't understand why they stopped short of the Midland Hotel when it already went there , right up to Foster Square 😢

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

The Bradford midland Road Bridge best times in the snow going down step's to. Canal Road Bradford

[@javidrashed2553]

Yu know Jimmy Iqbal

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

@@javidrashed2553 maybe my facial recognition but not my name

[@javidrashed2553]

You yous to live near park you in a band called fundamental you had cousin in Bradford 3 you singer

[@tonymaries1652]

The money from the sale of the land from the closed goods yards should have been invested on a link between Exchange and Forster Square stations and a single city centre station. The ability to run through trains from Huddersfield/Halifax to Shipley/Keighley/Skipton and beyond would be a huge benefit to the region.

[@grahamallen1970]

Was it filmed by Peter hartington? If you know him say thanks! Good historical vid

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

Lovely song. Whats the name?

[@transportinterests5371]

Yes, your quite right, the Muzak is suspect! At the time it was the only bit of copyright free I could lay my hands on!

[@jokerfleckcast3196]

@@transportinterests5371 its spooky

[@hazelisaacs2201]

It’s Stylophone Migraine by experimental prog-jazz trio Peter Hartingdon’s Audible Prolapse.

[@SiEmon_E]

Anyone know around what year this was filmed?

[@transportinterests5371]

If I remember correctly it was 1990 give or take a smallish ish!

[@SiEmon_E]

@@transportinterests5371 cool 👍

[@transportinterests5371]

S1manE cheers!

[@robertbarlow6359]

Wow - very bleak. I remember it being like that during the early 90s and also parts of Leeds by the canal docks(Holbech). What's Forster Square like now?

[@relax2calm]

Much better, best way to find out is to come and have a look, visit the new Broadway Centre whilst as well

[@robertbarlow6359]

It's okay I checked it out on Google map. I was in Bradford a couple of days ago and there's still a lot of derelict mills and patches of wasteland off the Thornton Road side of Bradford. Seems a little behind with regeneration doesn't it?!? Still it's interesting to photograph before it's all gone and either regenerated or burnt to the ground. It'd be nice if the original mills could be restored as part of a big regeneration project or complex, whether it be apartments, offices, studio spaces and mixed use. I realise some of them are now flats.The budget doesn't seem to be there and they're getting burnt to the ground then eventually the clearings are used as parking spaces. That seems to be the way.

[@jeanhodgson8623]

The new station is dull and characterless.

[@NaenaeGaming]

Tommy Black True, but at least you can see nearby remains of the old station still (only a wall but it’s something)

[@hoppinonabronzeleg9477]

@@robertbarlow6359 Bradford council is skint! There are 200 year old mills in Listerhills, with windows blowing out of them, and injuring folk, without a hope of ever being turned into student lets. No one knows who the owners are, or were, because they are all brown bread! They should have spent money on either knocking them down, or regenerating the area, around City Road/Preston St instead of knocking down 1960's buildings with paying tenants. And not having a plan, I would have at least made it pay by making car parking out of it! But No Bradford council knew best; thought they wanted a canal basin around 2007.

[@johnnyboy3949]

Why didn’t they join Forster square and interchange when they could? Instead they chose to make them further apart which was bonkers

[@soundseeker63]

It was never possible because 1 you would have to demolish a considerable amount of central Bradford to do it and 2 the elevation change over such a short distance is problematic.

[@theronster3533]

There have been plans and I believe they usually involved a viaduct across the city centre. The best opportunity to build or future proof a route in recent times was when the area between the 2 stations was being redeveloped for the Broadway shopping centre. Unfortunately the City was at rock bottom at the time and Bradford Council had no vision and no leadership.

[@hoppinonabronzeleg9477]

Yes that plan has come up a few times, solutions like a lift, could have been a tourist attraction, much like the Falkirk wheel. At the time, the law courts were the only thing in the way, but as R Villermann has pointed out Bradford Council was skint then as well. And They wanted this Broadway thing doing!

[@dontnoable]

They could have just made the trains turn invisible as they passed through the centre of town. There was no excuse not to link up Forster Square & the interchange.

[@kevinwalton4538]

Geographically impossible. Height difference in landscape prevented it sadly.

[@romber58]

If you watch this turn the stupid muzak off.It,s only forster square for god,s sake not the fall of the roman empire....

[@4WordsMediaNorth]

Bradfordum was Roman

[@b00ts4ndc4ts]

@@4WordsMediaNorth some of the Romans still sit on the council.

[@4WordsMediaNorth]

@@b00ts4ndc4ts I don't understand?

[@GULFRAZMAJEEDseye8eyes]

The bridge 1970 and before gangs used to hang around the with flick knifes extorting anything from kids to old when bodies were found over the railway bridge the police just recorded them as suicide . Bob's your uncle half a crown can shilling note and one for crown Bobby on the beat street

[@shahedmc9656]

During visits to the city during the 80s that footbridge was so long I always wanted to walk along it. Having learned now it was a Mugger's Alley, I'm glad I kept away from it.

[@TheHappyPensioners]

I wonder if you folk realise just how difficult and time consuming it is to find music as bad and crap as this piece surely is? Irritating and teeth scratching music like this just doesn’t grow on trees you know! It takes great effort, skill, planning and shear audacity to produce a noise this bad! Four fluffy little kittens were cruelly killed to create the mind blowing string sounds on this classic bit of orchestral delight! Can I put forward a suggestion please? In order to truly detest and loathe the soundtrack on this video as fully as possible, why not turn the volume up as far as you can, better still if you are able, pump it through your hi fi to its maximum volume, wear your best sunglasses, pull up your pants tight around your nether regions, sit back on your favourite easy chair, the one with the protruding spring, and the true beauty of the music and romance of this piece will prove to be total bedlam and you may even pull out your nasal hair as the top notes are reached, thereby further enhancing your hatred of this classic music crap! Hey ho!

[@dontnoable]

I thought it had quite a pensive quality to it. It encouraged me to hod on for scenes of the old Forster Square station circa the early 80's. Alas even this magestic music couldn't help bring forth such scenes!!

[@hazelisaacs2201]

Imagine John Peel's voice gently intoning over the fade out "and that was just the first five minutes of experimental post - punk trio Peter Hartingdon's Audible Prolapse with the first release from their new concept album 'Stylophone Migraine.' The extended remix is just over two hours long..."

[@TheHappyPensioners]

@@hazelisaacs2201 stylaphone migraine and audible prolapse! Brill !!!!!

[@hazelisaacs2201]

@@TheHappyPensioners believe me once upon a time as an edgy adolescent i too made such music armed with a plywood guitar, school recorder, shaker made from a stork margarine tub filled with sand and a borrowed 1950s reel- to- reel tape machine. I imagined I was Mike Oldfield & Pink Floyd. Happy days!

[@BONZAI26]

Music's like Beverly hills cop lol

[@a11csc]

what could have been never will,such a loss

[@allanmiller6897]

What irritating music. Who goes into a recording studio to make that. It's stripped the enamel off my teeth.

[@xm3405]

Exactly it's so fucking bad sounds like some chinese parade

[@allanmiller6897]

xm3 Got it in one.

[@jeanhodgson8623]

I routinely turn the sound off for KZbin videos. There must be a studio that makes annoying music for them.

[@barbarastepien-foad4519]

Exactly so

[@nigelkthomas9501]

Some narration would’ve been nice.

[@lukaslayton2697]

A grim dump nothing has changed

[@fatlad5090]

Dodgy music

[@kevinberry125]

This it with bradford they mess it up but never put it right again they run out of money

[@stephenkinsley2483]

so sad.