Old Bradford Photos

Photos of Bradford's times gone by

[@Carlysimon99]

I was born in Bradford in 1955 and left in 1959 my parents wanted out so we moved to a semi rural small village . we went back on the odd occasion to visit relatives and I recall it was a nice city, the beautiful buildings and the nice shops in the Town, the parks we would visit whilst there.i went back recently and it did not look like the same place, some the buildings had gone, the town was full of budget buy shops and a lot of the streets had rubbish on them old carpet and mattresses and litter just thrown about ,dirty dustbins piled high with garbage. Even the parks were deserted and scruffy it was sad to see it in such a decline.

[@Reminders4ever]

Duncan Sands which ends u from

[@roberthaigh821]

Brilliant display of nostalgia,the ruin came not with its residents but with town planners and and designers who have decimated the city,we are suppose to be a market town with a charter ,how can traders survive high rates and a council that drives people away rather than encouraging them,sadly they have forgot they are public servants and put their importance before our needs for our city.

[@cyberjoe7]

Great pictures, enjoyed looking at them.....

[@PurdyF100]

That photo at 3-53 is of the Sales Office where I worked. It was all owned and purpose built by the biggest Industrial and Chemical Company in the UK, ICI (Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd subsequently PLC) It was named Thornton House, Bridge Street and directly overlooked the City Hall. It was a multi Divisional Sales Office and, as you can imagine for such a large company very, very busy. It was closed by ICI in 1982 and sold off and I was transferred to Cheshire. In 2007 following retirement, I returned to family in Yorkshire because of old age. The building itself has now been converted into a block of flats. The memories and happy times there will always remain however and the Bradford shopping experience then was a never to be forgotten one.

[@MichaelSmith-ui5zs]

Nice photos, thanks. I like the Ivegate one at 5.54 with a pub I used to go in, The Unicorn on the right.

[@MichaelSmith-ui5zs]

Nice pint of Tetleys mate.Used to pop in myself.

[@barbarastepien-foad4519]

Walk down memory lane, there was a lot of activism in Bradford in those dates, the Labour party originated here and there were a lot of right on people in those days,what a great shame it's changed so much.

[@casper20096]

BRILLIANT brings back good old memories thankyou for posting

[@susanleighton6715]

I was born at St. Luke's hospital 1947. We lived in Buttershaw, but my family got split up, for various reasons. I came back, when I was 16, I worked at Woolcombers Head Office, and an accountants, at 43 Cheapside, and The Talk of Yorkshire Nightclub. ..and lived in Walmer Villas, until I left to go travelling, and now live in Leeds since I was 26. Bradford is my home town, and will always be very dear to me, I love looking at these pictures.

[@joshrogan9981]

Do you remember The Penny Farthing? :)

[@susanleighton6715]

The name rings a bell, but I can't say I do. I left Bradford to go travelling, it may have been then. I was part of the 'mod in crowd', we used to go to the Alex. Hotel every Friday, and then there was the Allasio coffee bar. Another club we went to was the Continental, just off cheapside, tucked away.....and then there was the Locarno Ballroom, every Monday, 2/6d. We seemed to drink milk, from the milk bar. Can't imagine today's youngsters being happy to do that, but we danced the night away, The Beatles had just become popular. Thank you for your interest.

[@joshrogan9981]

Susan Leighton I'm a little younger than you (1951) I do remember the Continental coffee bar and The Hole in the Wall, down Godwin Street, and of course the Mecca ballroom. I live in Harrogate now. Thank you for replying.

[@DokktorDeth]

Ah! The Talk of Yorkshire! Happy memories …

[@billyafghan]

I use to work for a construction company. We converted that building into flats during conversion I found some mortgage paper from 1900s.

[@BradfordThroughTheLens]

Thank you

[@carolinecoffey5404]

I can’t imagine how it must have been I was born in 67, most of it gone by then such a shame

[@Ploggy.]

Great video thanks for posting 👍

[@cranic4444]

You are wrong Richard white folk were not lazy,people worked and worked hard in the fifties and sixties.

[@patriciabracken7546]

Looks really nice peaceful. Before the shit hit the fan..

[@johnthatcher2349]

Our ancestors built fantastic things not sure how well we have done since the 1970s

[@jimmykahn5431]

It was your ancestors who demolished some of the great buildings and replaced them with 1960 and 70s nightmares..

[@petersilcock4260]

At 6:28 is Len's Lambretta dealer - happy memories. Building is still there but somewhat altered.

[@steve.s6741]

Got my first scooter from there. 1979.. Was a primevra 125.

[@amsterdamnedave]

Thank You

[@Ponieslad]

10.08 Played up those steps to the station many times when I was a kid.

[@SxqibBFD]

Ponieslad ph

[@marioandrikopoulos2158]

Top 📷👍

[@kingfisherphil]

9'50 - 10@00" is not Idle station but THackley, we used to play cricket using the wickets painted on wall, and lost many a ball in the flipping station garden to the right.

[@elephantsmemory3142]

I loved street cricket as a child It had its own rules like one hand off the wall catch Two hands and you didn't get the bowler out We used to say R S T but walk back because we didn't know what it stood for Happy times

[@khayyamahmed856]

4:16 that's the bottom of oak lane the entrance to Lister park

[@ck12321212]

Khayyam Ahmed yes it is

[@throwow1014]

Khayyam Ahmed how did u even get to Bradford?

[@krabiah3512]

8:02 I wonder who those statues were named after it's right next to the Broadway shopping centre. May have been the founder of Bradford (Broadford back then )

[@alisonfairbank9484]

Possibly Richard Oastler who campaigned for better working conditions in the mills of Yorkshire.

[@krabiah3512]

@@alisonfairbank9484 apparently its a statue of Winston Churchill but its all just assumptions and no facts

[@rukhshanakhalifa5195]

Was born in 70s but we worked had in.mills at a young age only 16.time then people were hardworking on.labour jobs.

[@ednakitchen6450]

anyone remember the coronation bar i think it was on market st in the early fifties

[@Ponieslad]

5.45 The Green at Idle. Looks like the White Swan was a Ramsden Ales House then

[@nikoandrikopoulos8900]

pleace make a Music for this Pictures!

[@gaz4840]

The photo at 5:10 is the fox and Hounds and the following photo looking down from the road down to the train station, in Shipley before it was all flattened in around 1973 to make way for todays biggest bottleneck in the aire valley, lovely shops and Rimmingtons chemist on the left, you can just make out the Beehive at the top of the screen. Shipley, now home to charity shops and big groups of foreigners walking round shouting and spitting Photo at 6:00 is the magnificent kirkgate market, a victorian masterpiece, replaced by the souless Arndale Concrete Bunker, worse still is the "new" westfield shopping center in Forster Square, with its single height "Food Hall" ha ha, Leeds kept its gorgeous buildings, Bradford demolished. take a walk down darley Street sometime, shops closed, derelict dirty, and even fattorinis have gone. Bradford is an embarrassment, even the Media Museum has lost its film festival . My daughter was born in BRI but tells everybody she is from skipton

[@lesliewatson6146]

I was born in Bradford in 1951 lived there till the 80s when I go back know it makes you want to cry the place is third world shithole

[@khayyamahmed856]

Fuck off it's still the best place!

[@mylestubedayz5613]

Yep the place is a grade a shithole. Honestly I could see Bradford been levelled and not have flicker of emotion! And yes it is like living and driving in a third world dive! Unfortunately the damage to Bradford is so vast it is not repairable! Even the police have given in as few people In The city care!

[@ianbentley7276]

@@WillScarlet1991 STUPID TWAT

[@DokktorDeth]

Same year as me. Yep, you're not wrong. I'm in Bangkok, but may have to move back due to harsher expat retirement laws, and escalating health insurance costs. Bloody Norah!

[@robertandryszewski9169]

I agree l too was born 1951 Bradford back then was booming everyone worked .now its a s ithole.

[@yu5uf757]

I live in bradford

[@tommygunn4395]

This is when england was actually england

[@DokktorDeth]

Was it? Wotsit now??

[@supertrucker2267]

Back in the good days when britain was great britain

[@ryanparky3963]

so bradford was not all ways a shit hole

[@4Humanity2869]

Ryan Parky why am I constantly reading that Bradford is a 'shithole'? Is it just the Pakistani community that now live there on to their 3rd generation? Is it just the 'white' people who say this? Or is there another reason?

[@tabassamnaz6730]

Ryan Parky your face is a shit hole lol

[@user-hk2fh1gg6w]

I was born in Bradford in 1947, Bradford then and now. The council has done over many year what the German's could have done in a day in the war. Destroy what was a great city. Now its becoming a ghost town.

[@craigmullen9046]

When it was indigenous and quintley English. Now it's Islamabad.

[@WillScarlet1991]

Suck on it, racist 😊

[@DamnDealDone]

@@WillScarlet1991 It's not racist to state facts.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@DamnDealDone It is if you want Britain to be majority White. Do you?

[@DamnDealDone]

@@WillScarlet1991 damn you're dumb. You think Africans don't want Africa to be majority African? Same with China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, and literally every other country on earth. But it's only racist when the English want it? Only the English have to accept feeling alienated in their own town and don't get to complain. It's important to feel a sense of belonging to kin, country and culture and it's worth protecting. You have no clue. Thick as pigshit.

[@WillScarlet1991]

@@DamnDealDone Just answer the question. Do you want Britain to be majority-White? Yes or no?

[@neilwilliams2409]

Nice place then? !!!!

[@IbnShahid]

Well.....it depends.

[@WillScarlet1991]

Only if you were rich.

[@paulreynolds9003]

Yes they did but it was because of the British empire in India and Pakistan how we ended up in this mess. They got all the wealth from it and left us with the shit so to speak.

[@stevegill9704]

Still a great diverse & multicultural city that is unfortunately call Bradford & not Leeds or it would have millions of pounds investment