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Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.
The New Bear Hotel, left, is now Silver Street House, having been restored by Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust in 1977.
In his 'Bradford on Avon Past and Present', Harold Fassnidge describes the carillon, dating from 1614, as having been augmented over the years; it now has a repertoire of hymns played regularly.
Bradford's complete tram system closed on 6 May 1950 when trolleybuses took over - they lasted until 26 March 1972.
It contains a number of statues of prominent men of Bradford, which became a city in the year of this photograph.
In the thirty years from 1880, Bradford's population doubled to nearly 300,000.
It was built in 1905 by Edmund Purefoy Ellis Jervoise, but by 1915 Lady Bradford was living there.
West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.
At its height in the 19th and early 20th century, Halifax was the greatest of the textile towns of West Yorkshire, a centre for woollen manufacture and clothing, larger even than Leeds or Bradford.
The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.
The glass shades on the Bradford Boot and Shoe Exchange (left) carry interesting advertisements: men's nailed boots cost from 3s 11d.
The tramway from Bradford came here in 1914, but the first road accident happened years earlier in 1900.
St Aldhelm built an ecclesiola at Bradford, and a monastery is recorded in a deed of 705 when he was Abbot.
The Bradford Exhibition of 1904 stimulated the laying-out of this former country estate.
The Scots are known to have raided at least as far south as Bradford.
The Scots are known to have raided at least as far south as Bradford.
West Bradford gets its name from being west of the broad, shallow ford of the River Ribble.
This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place
Brook's Cafe Restaurant is now The Bradford & Bingley Building Society.
This road runs between Coggeshall Road and Bradford Street; it replaced the old road, which ran 30 or 40 metres back from the left-hand side of this picture, when Sydney Courtauld built Bocking Place
