Prince's Way and Odeon Cinema

I quite like these newly planted trees in Prince's Way in the town centre, they kind of lead the eye towards the domed building, the former Odeon Cinema, in the distance there. The domed building, or should I say doomed building closed for business over ten years ago and has been slowly deteriorating since then. The building has quite a history, it was opened in 1930 as the largest cinema outside London, with a seating capacity of 3,300, a Wurlitzer organ, ballroom and restaurant. It was visited by the Prince of Wales (later the abdicated Edward VIII) who was 'most impressed', the BBC installed microphones and broadcast organ concerts from the building, visiting rock and roll stars from the United States gave concerts there in the 1950's, and I saw Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey there in 1968, and like the Prince of Wales, was 'most impressed'.

Heaton Woods - Tree Planting

     I had seen a small piece in my local paper about tree planting in Heaton Woods and decided to go along with my camera.  I have to confess, having lived my entire life in the Bradford area, that I have never visited these woods before.  The tree planting was in an area of land recently acquired by the Heaton Woods Trust, a group of volunteers who manage and maintain the ancient and more recently planted woodland, paths and ponds in the area.  Pictured here is the Mayor of Bradford Cllr. Peter Hill.
     The woodland in this area is really beautiful and I will definitely be returning to take some photographs in a week or two when the trees come into leaf.