EAW030801 ENGLAND (1950). The Town Hall and the city centre, Bradford, 1950
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Details
| Title | [EAW030801] The Town Hall and the city centre, Bradford, 1950 |
| Reference | EAW030801 |
| Date | 28-June-1950 |
| Link | |
| Place name | BRADFORD |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | ENGLAND |
| Easting / Northing | 416220, 432890 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -1.7537562245952, 53.791855415046 |
| National Grid Reference | SE162329 |
Pins
 Brown Muff's up-market department store. Open on Wednesday afternoons, Bradford's half-day closing, Closed on Saturday afternoons when everyone was in town! |
 H.J.Hill |
Sunday 14th of January 2024 02:18:55 PM |
Shipley Flyer |
Monday 13th of March 2017 04:29:22 PM | |
| There was a 'students' cafe in a basement below this building. It was popular with the more bohemian/art-college students. One student, David Hockney, painted a mural on the cafe wall. Under the dual carriageway at the edge of the City Park there is probably a rubble-filled cellar with a Hockney on the wall! |
H.J.Hill |
Monday 25th of August 2014 12:50:18 PM |
| Department store and headquarters of the Bradford Cooperative Society. There were others in Bradford: e.g. the Great Horton Industrial Society. This building in the modern style of the 1930s was extended and named Sunwin House in the 1960s.
The large rectangular shape on the roof with long shallow windows was the cafe where, even in the 1950s, waitresses in black uniforms with white aprons and caps attended the customers. The windows were clerestory lights. |
H.J.Hill |
Monday 25th of August 2014 12:45:53 PM |
| Christopher Pratt's up-market house furnishings store. Open on Wednesday afternoons, Bradford's half-day closing, closed on Saturday afternoons when everyone is in town!) |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:37:56 PM |
| John Street "opp'n air" market. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:35:38 PM |
| Manor Row school clinic |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:34:13 PM |
| The site of the halt that now passes for Bradford Forster Square Station. |
H.J.Hill |
Monday 25th of August 2014 12:32:59 PM |
| Bradford Central Library; until the late 1960s, part of the Victorian Kirkgate Market complex. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:31:21 PM |
| Kirkgate Market - Oh Bradford weep for what was lost! |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:30:08 PM |
| The Mechanics' Institute. |
H.J.Hill |
Monday 25th of August 2014 12:28:25 PM |
| Collinson's Cafe - refreshments in the old fashioned way with 'palm court' music. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:27:26 PM |
| Site of the former Savoy Cinema, closed shortly before the outbreak of WW2. In the early 1950s M&S were still yet to build the replacement store. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:25:41 PM |
| The former Picture House, later Tatler, cinema. Probably a retail store at the time of the photograph. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:23:42 PM |
| Prince's Theatre auditorium and stage building (the former Palace Theatre was underneath). Cheaper seats' entrances in the side street. |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:20:46 PM |
| Prince's Theatre - Little Horton Lane entrance for dearer seats |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:19:23 PM |
| The original Odeon Cinema |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:18:25 PM |
| The Co-op Hall (theatre/public hall) |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:17:48 PM |
| Gaumont Cinema (previously New Victoria; later Odeon 2 then 3 screen) |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:17:04 PM |
| Alhambra Theatre |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:15:57 PM |
| Morley Street Picture House |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:15:30 PM |
| Alexandra Hotel |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:14:59 PM |
| Empire Cinema |
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Monday 25th of August 2014 12:14:37 PM |
