After almost four months of closure, the National Science and Media Museum has announced that it will be opening its doors again to the public this summer from Wednesday 19 August. Initially welcoming back […]
Category: Bradford Museums
People And Places
A virtual photographic exhibition by Yorkshire Monochrome Group Following the success of its Twenty-First Century Monochrome show at Cliffe Castle, Keighley and online earlier this year, YMG is back again with People and Places. This […]
Summer in The Seventies
Anyone growing up in the 1970s will recall the long hot summer of 1976. For a few weeks in July and August the temperatures were high, the sky clear of clouds and the sun shone […]
Tom’s Bike at Bradford Industrial Museum
As more details began to emerge about the background and long life of Colonel (now Sir) Tom Moore, we were all pleased and proud to learn that he came from Keighley. The young Tom had […]
Summer Days
Since 2014 Bradford Museums Photo Archive has been producing slideshow presentations for Bradford City of Film‘s Big Screen in Centenary Square on a variety of themes. This has been temporarily suspended during the current crisis […]
Of Cut And Paste and Odsal Crowds
As Bradford sporting enthusiasts will remind you, a then world record crowd attended the Rugby League Challenge Cup Replay at Odsal Stadium in May of 1954. Many people have a copy of C.H. Wood’s aerial […]
Twenty Years Ago
The Day Bradford City Achieved Premier League Survival Modern football invites cynicism but 14th May 2000 was a day of fairy tales and memories to last a lifetime. Against all the odds, Bradford City defeated […]
Tales from the Belle Vue Studio
Acquired in the early 1980s, the Belle Vue Studio Collection is one of Bradford Museums and Galleries‘ most important photographic collections. First opened in 1902 by Benjamin Sandford Taylor, the Belle Vue Photographic Studio produced […]
