RO-TES at the Bradford Festival 2026

 At the Bradford Festival last week RO-TES with Cambodian disabled artist Nadenh Poan and world class dancers.

New Mural, Broadway Shopping Centre

This is a colourful new mural on the Hall Ings side of the Broadway Shopping Centre, well I'm saying it's new, it's been there a few months now.

Phenix - Bradford is Lit

A giant bird sculpture entitled Phenix, part of the two day Bradford is Lit festival.  I couldn't find much information on the sculpture apart from the fact that it's ten metres tall, I'm not sure that fact is correct, it may be that the wingspan is ten metres.

Hall Ings

Hall Ings, it's much quieter now than it was, I would have been stood in the middle of traffic to take this picture a couple of years ago.

New Gardens and Cycle Path

New gardens and cycle path in Bradford city centre.  This area previously had four lanes of traffic running through it, it's much quieter now.

Tower of Now

Tower of Now, a new structure recently erected in Hall Ings in the centre of Bradford.  It was created by Pakistani born artist Saad Qureshi who moved to Bradford at the age of eight and later studied Art.  The tower is fifteen metres tall and incorporates architectural features from around the world.

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. 

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.

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.