Roberts Park Parkrun

Saturday Parkrun at Roberts Park in Saltaire.  A weekly event organised by volunteers, with a nine o'clock start time and online regsistration it's a very popular event.

Unsafe Trees?

I went for a bike ride along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal this morning and came across these workmen felling trees on the opposite bank.  We have had quite strong winds this summer which have brought down large branches in the woods and along the canal so it's probably a worthwhile safety measure.

Cartwright Hall and Mughal Gardens

Cartwright Hall and Mughal Gardens. The Hall was completed in 1904 for the Bradford Exhibition which took place here in Lister Park.  The Mughal Gardens were created in 1997 and were the first to be constructed in the North of England.

Fifty Years of the Bradford Industrial Museum

It's fifty years since the Bradford Industrial Museum opened, formerly Moorside Mills, a worsted spinning mill acquired by Bradford council, apparently the first local authority run industrial museum in the country.  The museum contains displays of textile machinery, steam power and motor vehicles connected with the local area.

This weekend is the 50 year celebration of the museums opening and pictured is my friend Rais with a staff member at the museum.  Rais was an engineering apprentice in 1973 and was one of a group of volunteers that assisted in the installation of some of the machines in the steam gallery, the engine on the left is one of the machines that he worked on.

Linear Garden

A view of Norfolk Gardens and Hall Ings. When it's completed it's going to be a linear garden according to city centre planners, I believe it's meant to be completed before the City of Culture year in 2025 but it seems unlikely. 

Marina at Apperley Bridge

I went for a bike ride this morning along the Leeds-Liverpool Canal before the rain arrived.  This is the marina at Apperley Bridge, it's on the border between Bradford and Leeds.  I had a small lightweight camera with me, it didn't have a lens wide enough to capture the scene so this is five images merged together.

Jamie Chadwick

Jamie Chadwick, British racing driver.  I can't find a connection between Jamie and Bradford, but she's pictured here on the wall at the lower end of Great Horton Road.  The fly posters have been added by supporters of Palestine.

The Old Post Office

The Old Post Office, Church Lane, Esholt village.  The village lies about three or four miles North of Bradford.

Preparations for BD Festival 2024

Preparations for the 2024 BD Festival which starts this Friday evening (26th July) and runs through Saturday.  The annual Festival is held in the centre of Bradford around the mirror pool and Centenary Square and includes street theatre, music and dance.

Leeds-Liverpool Canal at Bingley

Took grandchild number one for a bike ride along the Leeds-Liverpool canal yesterday.  The picture shows the canal just above the Five Rise Locks at Bingley.  The canal once had a link to the centre of Bradford. There was talk of reinstating it at one point, but I don't think there was the money to do it and it never happened.

Looking Up

 Looking up at the ceiling of the Wool Exchange (now a Waterstones book shop).

Hall Ings and Norfolk Gardens

I didn't really want to post pictures of the town centre at the moment as it's having a major makeover ready for the City of Culture 2025.  The picture shows Hall Ings which will be transformed into a garden area, the excavator has just finished demolishing the large bus shelter which stood at the roadside.

Science and Media Museum

The Science and Media Museum is currently closed for refurbishment and should be open again for  Bradford City of Culture 2025.

Edge of Buck Woods

On the edge of Buck Woods, Thackley. I'm staying out of the town centre at the moment as it's a mass of roadworks and pedestrianisation work.  I'll put some pictures on here when the work has been completed.

Bradford Cathedral

This side of the Cathedral is usually in shadow, it's North facing, I don't think I have a picture at all with any sunlight on it.  Taken at the weekend when we had a couple of sunny days.

Bluebells

Bluebells, Esholt woods. 

Spring Has Sprung

Cottages at Esholt village.  Some decent Spring weather has finally arrived after months of cold and wet weather.

Field Locks

 Field Locks, Thackley.

Closed to Traffic

 Hall Ings, one of the main routes in the city centre now closed to traffic, part of the plan to make the town centre more pedestrian friendly.

Celebrating Bradford

                                                                                                                                                                             An exhibition of images of Bradford and the surrounding area opened at the Trapezeum Gallery in the centre of Bradford yesterday.  The photographs, by members of Bingley Camera Club show some of the architecture, landscape and events in the Bradford district.

The exhibition runs from April 6th to April 27th and the Gallery is open Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 11AM to 3PM.