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Pevsner describes the building as 'large, with an angle turret, Jacobean with shaped gables and mullioned and transomed windows, irregular and picturesque, but on a scale excessive for Bradford

Saltaire station lies on the Midland Railway route between Bradford and Skipton. Titus Salt's celebrated mill stands next to the line.

In the early 19th century, Bradford had thirty-two cloth factories and Holy Trinity was the church of the clothiers.

Fortunately, it is possible to appreciate all of this river on its near five-mile journey from Lathkill Head Cave until it empties into the river Bradford at Alport: a footpath follows the whole course

Bradford-on-Avon has changed little in the last century. There has been no by-pass, no rash of new developments.

Shipley, three miles north-west of Bradford, in the valley of the River Aire, is a busy town on the A65 Skipton Road.

The railway station is on the Midland line from Bradford to Skipton. The railway station was opened in 1856. Titus Salt's Mill, some six storeys high, sits alongside the line.

Transport into this part of Bradford progressed from horse trams in 1882 to steam trams by 1884, and electric ones from 1897. By 1911 the Corporation could boast a transport profit of £52,000.

Note the large gilt letters above Bradford House.

Technical education had received a boost during the 1880s when towns like Bradford committed funds to build specialist colleges.

Bradford was not only the first to introduce trolleybuses, but the last to discontinue their service - the system survived until 1972 when it was finally closed.

In 1911, a joint scheme between Leeds and Bradford saw the inauguration of Britain's first trolleybus service.

Beyond here is Scar House Reservoir, providing water for Bradford. During the construction a small village was established in these desolate hills dominated by Great Whernside.

Although Oastler was from Huddersfield, Bradford was chosen for the site of his statue as his campaign to reduce working hours for factory children was centred in the city.

Pevsner described The Hall as 'the one nationally major mansion in Bradford, not a town house but a country house in character'.

In 1911, a joint scheme between Leeds and Bradford saw the inauguration of Britain's first trolleybus service.

The shops on the left were demolished in the 1930s to make way for Burton Tailors and F W Bradford Ltd, a family-run department store incorporated into James Beattie in 1960.

Unlike Bradford, Bristol was not about to embark on running a railway: they simply wanted the trackbed for a new road to Avonmouth, for the Gorge was not wide enough for both.

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. On the final day of the trams, crowds came out to mourn their passing.

It contains a number of statues of prominent men of Bradford, which became a city in the year of this photograph. The Wool Exchange is now sympathetically restored to a well-stocked book shop.

In the thirty years from 1880, Bradford's population doubled to nearly 300,000.