A Few Little Bits Of Bradford History

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Hi all,

A friend used to work on the railways 30-40 years ago and someone he worked with was big into photography, this photographer chap sadly passed away but he gave my friend a little stack of his prints which I've been given kind permission to scan and share online.

I thought these may be of interest to anyone with an interest in old images or railways (or both!) They're scanned on the V500 from the prints, the photographer did his own prints and I'm really quite astounded at how much detail can be pulled out of them. The original prints look gorgeous!

There was no location on this but it looks like Oakworth station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, probably in the early 70's:

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Another KWVR shot from March 1970, this time at Oxenhope:

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I need to have a chat with my mate and get locations for these to add to the Flickr uploads but they're all around Bradford:

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What a sight this must have been. probably somewhat taken for granted 'back in the day' but for someone who grew up not knowing much apart from diesel and electric it must have been pretty awesome to have seen this!

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A couple of views of Bradford's old Exchange station, replaced in the early 1970's by the Interchange which lies a few hundred metres south of the old station.

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And a few of the old Adolphus Street station, of which there's no trace whatsoever left.

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They're fantastic, proof if it were needed that we should take pictures of the world around us, no matter how mundane they appear at the time.

I recognise the time period, Northampton was similar in the late 60's early 70's. Demolition and still some bomb sites. Northampton never really recovered.

Thanks for sharing Paul, I think they're stunning.
 
A cracking set of shots, looking forward to seeing the prints when i'm next over in Leeds. The shots of the stations are great, shame the buildings are no longer around as no doubt they would lend a bit of character to the area!
 
I always enjoy photographs showing the past. My father was born in Glasgow before WW1, and I never really appreciated what he told me about growing up then, until I saw photographs of the city c1912. It was quite a revelation.

And smokes at 3/6d for 20. That takes me back a bit! They still had smoking carriages on trains and cigarette machines too................
 
Nah then, when I wur a lad 'ole country was shrouded in steam and it were all black and white in them days, cors you could leave yer front door unlocked day and night, sum b****r 'ud steal yer stuff mind.

Excellent shots and coming from a proper railway town a sight for sore eyes.

Andy
 
A fantastic set of images, great record of bygone days!
 
Fantastic !
Thanks for sharing these.
I think it's a shame that in the future, there will be less and less of these hidden "biscuit tin stashes" of historical photos.
There are billions of images taken now, and never will they get printed.
Instead they will be on a hard disk/phone or whatever, and will die with the hardware when it gets replaced.
Thats why it's always a pleasure to see historical documents like these.
 
Musicman said:
They certainly knew how to build a roof in the 19th century. :cool:
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They knew how to build in the High Middle Ages too, pity there wasn't any way to capture the Tower of London and the great cathedrals in their heyday, and the monastries before they were destroyed. Some street shots of medieval London would be pretty good too! :)

I do agree with the later post that pointed out that enormous numbers of photographs are being taken now, but relatively few are printed, and most of the rest may well be lost. Hopefully enough will survive for our descendants, including 'snaps' we regard as trivial. They may not be in 100 years.
 
GHP said:
Fantastic !
Thanks for sharing these.
I think it's a shame that in the future, there will be less and less of these hidden "biscuit tin stashes" of historical photos.
There are billions of images taken now, and never will they get printed.
Instead they will be on a hard disk/phone or whatever, and will die with the hardware when it gets replaced.
Thats why it's always a pleasure to see historical documents like these.
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This is very true and sadly extends way beyond photographs.
 
Not wishing to be grumpy, but billions of photos have been taken in analogue form, and precious few of them survive. They are both (relatively) stable, and very vulnerable (who's going to look at the thousands of 6*9 black and white negs I have in the box from my father?). Likewise digital is both potentially unstable (if treated without thought) and potentially easier to preserve, view and identify (far easier, to the point of triviality, to duplicate, and Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). We tend to forget when thinking about the greater virtue of the analogue world that we are seeing the survivors!

Sorry, rant off... bit of a hot button for me (eg http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/rusbridge)...
 
ChrisR said:
Not wishing to be grumpy, but billions of photos have been taken in analogue form, and precious few of them survive. They are both (relatively) stable, and very vulnerable (who's going to look at the thousands of 6*9 black and white negs I have in the box from my father?). Likewise digital is both potentially unstable (if treated without thought) and potentially easier to preserve, view and identify (far easier, to the point of triviality, to duplicate, and Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe). We tend to forget when thinking about the greater virtue of the analogue world that we are seeing the survivors!

Sorry, rant off... bit of a hot button for me (eg http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue46/rusbridge)...
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Interesting read, thanks for posting the link.
 
... and they were lovely and really interesting shots, too Paul, thanks for putting them up, and my apologies.
 
As I live in what is ostensibly a 'new town' I haven't seen a massive amount of change in Crewe in my lifetime or even in old photos so these sorts of images are really interesting. Crewe was non-existent until the 1840's and was built around the station, which was called Crewe as it was built on Lord Crewe's land and a lot of the original town centre is unchanged apart from new shop fronts.

Andy
 
I wonder what an archeologist will make of it in a few hundred years time when uncovering a hard drive with thousands of photos on. Only to discover 1/3 are selfies, 1/3 are teenage girls pulling duck faces and the rest are a mixture of food and cats.
 
Steve said:
I wonder what an archeologist will make of it in a few hundred years time when uncovering a hard drive with thousands of photos on. Only to discover 1/3 are selfies, 1/3 are teenage girls pulling duck faces and the rest are a mixture of food and cats.
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You're spending too much time on FaceNovel....or something like that...
 
What a pleasure to view old images like these.......as you say Paul, the detail in them is incredible.

Thanks for posting....:thumbs:
 
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