That was great to watch I was born 1970 . Seeing these photos makes you realise back then most had nothing .but where more nice to each other Neighbours. Talked . Now we have so much more technology phones big tvs modern cars . But knowone talks to each other like they used to . The drugs the crime the devision . Good video my friend ... got me thinking .
I agree with you, I was brought up against the same backdrop - great close communities going in and out of each others houses - what's gone wrong! Not much money around etc we all just got on and everyone generally was helpful and happy.
@@TheBradfordDistrictChannel I think people are stressed more at the moment. But we the people of uk have been treated like fools . It don't matter who's in power labour or Conservative I belive its been run by a higher level . I don't believe anything I see on normal news channels any more . The problem I see is when I was 10 in 1980 went to buttershaw middle school . When I stepped out of line , I received the pump or cane . I still did same thing messed about . But I had respect for the teacher , I didn't fight back . I took my punishment. This is a huge problem these days . When I was at home I had loving best perants but if I raised my voice in anger as a teen . I would here my dad levitate off the couch . Lol I new I was getting the belt on my ass . It's funny I loved my dad and he loved me . I could go on for hours talking about things . One main thing was taking god out of schools . Don't matter what faith you are . It's just sets the day off to a good start . So so many things . Are wrong today ... Anyways have a good day tomorrow my friend .
I enjoyed that. I’d like to see you do a film about some of the millionaire industrialists that were prevalent in Victorian Bradford and who have very expensive graves in Undercliff cemetery.
The City Centre I agree. Much of the outlying districts are still to some degree intact. However, the destruction of Victorian buildings, infrastructure and the move of manufacturing to China\East has had a devastating impact. Downing Street needs to do more than levelling up here. Parts 2 to 4 of this series of Nick Hedges photographs further show little improvement to those poor areas. Questions need to be asked!
Thoroughly enjoyed this film. I always like then and now comparisons and especially when these places are familiar. Looking forward to seeing parts 2, 3 & 4.
Dodger thanks, I decided to do a then and now comparison slightly different to others so that one can gain more visual image from it without panning erratically everywhere! thanks again! The other parts should be out over the next few weeks.
Never been to Bradford but a fascinating channel. Appreciate your work. One thing that was better back in the day is the council had better weed control. Good to see one chimney still exists 👍
Very 😂interesting! Well, the cobbles have been retained in one of the pictures, but most replaced by ugly tarmac. The beautiful cast iron street lights have disappeared. The gas holders, well ugly, maybe but they served a purpose. Town planners at that time were afraid of the past, had mostly not had an art education, and would destroy rather than repair.
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You are doing a great job of our/Bradford's history...i lived in otley rd where alot of these images where taken . I just wish just drugs weren't so lucrative 😭😭the inllux of drugs in the 90s ruiened that community and still continues to do so throughout Britain 😭
I’ve never been to Bradford but those old pictures feel like the city had a soul and magnetic attraction to it. In the newer pictures, buildings and lamp posts that added character were removed. The pitch has been abandoned. What looked like a lived in, community city now looks like one where everyone is at home alone.
i wonder if any photos of Chassum Street exist we were the last family to be moved off we lived at 103 Chassum Street it was all knocked down in the slum clearances in the 60s memories are still strong in my mind
I was at St George,s High school Cliffe Road which was off Bolton Road opposite was the top end of peel Park. Beautiful view of Bradford from playing fields
It's called years of corruption and a lack of investment by a council full of greedy tory ceos and directors lining their pockets whilst living on huge multi million pound estates themselves! The Demise of the city is down to these rich corrupt people not poor migrants communities who hardly have a, say or any authority or power!
Between roughly 1850 and the early 1900s bradford was actually the wealthiest city outside london due to its 200 textile mills on the go back then, sadly its now one of if not the poorest city in the uk
@@easydrive3662 yes it is sad situation the collapse of the Textile/Wool industry and the dissolving of key infrastructure has left the City in a bad way with poor leadership. Thankfully there's alot of good people who want things to improve and many who are pushing for change.
@@TheBradfordDistrictChannel i actually live just up on baildon moor looking down onto the amazing salts mill with all its fantastic history! 1853 i believe the mill was constructed?
Yes bradford just not the same them was the good old happy times.I was brought up in bowling back lane.I would love to see that how it used to be before they pulled down all the back to back houses.very interested this film new those areas to.
Some of the Nick's photos were taken in other BDs and we've already filmed a few. Of course we are looking to do videos in other parts Bradford in the future. Thank you 👍
In the sixties and seventies, it wasn’t a bad old place...now it's a depressing shit hole, and when M&S closes, it will be the end of shopping for me...
I can understand the way you feel, but the areas visited in the video are a small part of Bradford. A recent drive up Kings Road around Brisbane Avenue and surrounding streets show a different story, clean streets and well kept gardens.
Hey dude it’s worth checking the Don McCullin photos from 1970s Bradford - obviously McCullin was a renowned war photographer so his images of Bradford very special.
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Something I've always wanted to know is where did all the sandstone flags go apart from the one's that have been stolen Bradford council must have made hundreds of thousands in there removal and subsequent sale. I no longer live in the district and I'm sorry to say that i don't ever intend to return a once proud city has been left to decay with years of bad management and under investment.
The Yorkshire Dales national park, like the dry stone walls the West Riding farmers have been selling off for good money and replacing with barbed wire that they string themselves -badly.
born on wapping rd 1968 went to the school went in the prospect as a kid, even today inside is still done out as a late 50s pub old lass that had it keep it the same , its a time warp inside had a pint in there 2 days before it closed and watched the power station get blown up from that location about 100yrds to right oppersite the sweet shop thats no more when sweets came 1oz 2oz 4oz 8oz 16 oz
I use to go in that shop. She use to sell liquourish sweets that looked like tree branches. And i watch the cooling towers getting blown up. Was it 1980/81 ish?
The shop used to be my mates grandma parttsons but good old bradford council said all the hill back was falling away so they purchased all the houses for peanuts but look now where the wild boar pub was there's new houses for social housing braford is a shithole and will end up a bronx lawless
Very interesting video & old memories. But please avoid negative background music. But irritating. If I ever end up making a video, there will be positive music but as low as possible.
@@rosewhite--- wow and sadly its going to be demolished. City planners should force developers to retain some of the original frontage of Bradford's heritage buildings when re-development takes place.
No chimneys, more trees now. The Prospect of Bradford pub closed in 2017, it was built in 1869 by Waller's Bradford Brewery which was at the bottom end of Trafalgar Street before 1914. This was bought by the Midland Railway, who wanted to build a railway connecting the two Bradford stations (obviously they never did). The company then moved brewing to Hipperholme, of all places, but kept the Bradford in its name which has been resurrected as a pub in the Sunbridgewells tunnels. They were taken over in 1935 by Melbourne Brewery, which was grabbed by Tetleys in 1960. The pub was sold off and became a free house in the Eighties, and then did good cask beer including Timothy Taylor's but it was too isolated to attract many folk -the lack of parking didn't help, so creating a gastropub wouldn't have worked and that was the only way it would have made money.
Wapping,/Bolton and around Peace Street is still predominantly White - lovely people I met but it surprised me bearing in mind its location. What is surprising, visiting streets around there Bradford definitely is not Bradfordabad - worth taking a look, many old Bradfordian families still there.
I lived in Bradford and area in the early 70s and even without the mournful violins it wasn't as depressing as you're trying to make this look. Kids could still safely walk home from school for instance. I wonder what proof of the "active recruitment" of ex-Empire Asians you have? The celebrated "Windrush" story is mostly lies. Fact is: Jamaica had serious unemployment problems. Muslims and Hindus fought in the streets back then too.
OP seems to be talking a lot of shyte, especially the fake nonsense about Muslims and Hindus attacking each other. We were united against a common enemy: the National Front.
There's plenty of proof. Of recruitment of ex empire Asians called to work on low paid menial jobs by the tory British government requesting migrants to come and work in these wealthy white wool merchants factories due to lack of local recruits or unwillingness of locals to take on menial low paid jobs! Simple! These poor immigrants back then came from very poor countries rulled by corrupt western backed puppets who had made the lives of these poor people a living helll with lack of opportunities do any menial jobs was an opportunity plus the wealthy tories needed cheap labour so they requested migrants from these western planted puppet rulers to send cheap labour over to these northern industrial towns simple! The real culprits are the super wealthy tories not the poor migrants who still lack opportunities to this day including their descendents still facing low paid jobs and racism!
Surprisingly it still is an English town, even the streets shown in the video I was surprised Ii came across alot of wonderful members of the English community around Wapping etc very good people
@halal. Cause southerners keep voting Torys into power, so all monies flow to London. Levelling up, my arse. Bradford has beautiful architecture and warm, wonderful residents, way better than Leeds. And The 1 in 12 Club was amazing night out.
That's what happens with years of under investment and corruption in the council and politicians that line their own pockets over the years making false promises of regeneration !
The Muslims have been spending their own money (which they got from WORKING) on building mosques, which look good and aren't concrete boxes. Well done to them.
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That was great to watch I was born 1970 . Seeing these photos makes you realise back then most had nothing .but where more nice to each other Neighbours. Talked .
Now we have so much more technology phones big tvs modern cars .
But knowone talks to each other like they used to .
The drugs the crime the devision .
Good video my friend ... got me thinking .
I agree with you, I was brought up against the same backdrop - great close communities going in and out of each others houses - what's gone wrong! Not much money around etc we all just got on and everyone generally was helpful and happy.
@@TheBradfordDistrictChannel I think people are stressed more at the moment. But we the people of uk have been treated like fools . It don't matter who's in power labour or Conservative I belive its been run by a higher level .
I don't believe anything I see on normal news channels any more .
The problem I see is when I was 10 in 1980 went to buttershaw middle school .
When I stepped out of line , I received the pump or cane .
I still did same thing messed about .
But I had respect for the teacher , I didn't fight back .
I took my punishment.
This is a huge problem these days .
When I was at home I had loving best perants but if I raised my voice in anger as a teen .
I would here my dad levitate off the couch . Lol
I new I was getting the belt on my ass .
It's funny I loved my dad and he loved me .
I could go on for hours talking about things .
One main thing was taking god out of schools .
Don't matter what faith you are . It's just sets the day off to a good start .
So so many things .
Are wrong today ...
Anyways have a good day tomorrow my friend .
Less is more ? Loved Bradford in 60s / 70s, felt safe and nice to go to and work in, avoid it now.
Great video, brings back memories.
Agree - really lovely video
I enjoyed that. I’d like to see you do a film about some of the millionaire industrialists that were prevalent in Victorian Bradford and who have very expensive graves in Undercliff cemetery.
Hi Stephen, that's actually what we're currently working on - nice to see we're on the same page!
Bradford used to be a beautiful city
The City Centre I agree. Much of the outlying districts are still to some degree intact. However, the destruction of Victorian buildings, infrastructure and the move of manufacturing to China\East has had a devastating impact. Downing Street needs to do more than levelling up here. Parts 2 to 4 of this series of Nick Hedges photographs further show little improvement to those poor areas. Questions need to be asked!
Thank you very much for making this channel.
Love this video, thanks very much for sharing
Agreed.
Thank you for this informative video
Thoroughly enjoyed this film. I always like then and now comparisons and especially when these places are familiar. Looking forward to seeing parts 2, 3 & 4.
Dodger thanks, I decided to do a then and now comparison slightly different to others so that one can gain more visual image from it without panning erratically everywhere! thanks again! The other parts should be out over the next few weeks.
Never been to Bradford but a fascinating channel. Appreciate your work. One thing that was better back in the day is the council had better weed control. Good to see one chimney still exists 👍
Good watch that mate cheers
Glad you enjoyed it
wow, amazing video, put together nicely...almost brought a tear to my eye.
Brilliantly made vid…subscribed.
shame that the council have let Bradford turn into what it is today. great vid
@@GODthegoodone agreed!
Very 😂interesting! Well, the cobbles have been retained in one of the pictures, but most replaced by ugly tarmac. The beautiful cast iron street lights have disappeared. The gas holders, well ugly, maybe but they served a purpose. Town planners at that time were afraid of the past, had mostly not had an art education, and would destroy rather than repair.
Really enjoyed this video. I love seeing how places have changed (or haven’t changed much) so thank you for this 🙂
The lady on Planetrees Rd. is just passing the house I was born in 1946 number77.
Amazing!
I live at the back of you. 49 blanche street
Lived. Sorry
@@tonycarolan2320 I moved to 43 Blanche St. in 1952-1967
Great video as always Riaz - sorry if i got your name wrong / spelt right :)
Thanks, I'm Imtiaz was with Riaz on Bradford Through the Lens until a year ago :) and should be doing some material with him later in the year. Thanks for your comment and support! Best regards
Great video, thank you.
You are doing a great job of our/Bradford's history...i lived in otley rd where alot of these images where taken .
I just wish just drugs weren't so lucrative 😭😭the inllux of drugs in the 90s ruiened that community and still continues to do so throughout Britain 😭
@@Seeemhigh. yeah it's a shame and you're right. Thanks for watching...more to come!
I ❤️ Bradford.
Bradford City centre has suffered the most. Kirkgate market, swan arcade, tyrel street I could go on.
Its sad, but the phoenix will rise again .
I’ve never been to Bradford but those old pictures feel like the city had a soul and magnetic attraction to it.
In the newer pictures, buildings and lamp posts that added character were removed. The pitch has been abandoned. What looked like a lived in, community city now looks like one where everyone is at home alone.
I agree with you.
The scruffy buildings have been pulled down to be replaced by scruffy waste ground.
Yep - its scandalous
i wonder if any photos of Chassum Street exist we were the last family to be moved off we lived at 103 Chassum Street it was all knocked down in the slum clearances in the 60s memories are still strong in my mind
Don McCullin took some interesting pictures of life in a decaying, poverty-stricken Bradford, published in Homecoming in 1979.
I was at St George,s High school Cliffe Road which was off Bolton Road opposite was the top end of peel Park. Beautiful view of Bradford from playing fields
Things gave gone downhill.... it is called progress....
It's called years of corruption and a lack of investment by a council full of greedy tory ceos and directors lining their pockets whilst living on huge multi million pound estates themselves! The Demise of the city is down to these rich corrupt people not poor migrants communities who hardly have a, say or any authority or power!
Downhill is going back wards
It's still a mean old scene.
No doubt about it, the writing is on the wall !😂
Between roughly 1850 and the early 1900s bradford was actually the wealthiest city outside london due to its 200 textile mills on the go back then, sadly its now one of if not the poorest city in the uk
@@easydrive3662 yes it is sad situation the collapse of the Textile/Wool industry and the dissolving of key infrastructure has left the City in a bad way with poor leadership. Thankfully there's alot of good people who want things to improve and many who are pushing for change.
@@TheBradfordDistrictChannel i actually live just up on baildon moor looking down onto the amazing salts mill with all its fantastic history! 1853 i believe the mill was constructed?
Yes bradford just not the same them was the good old happy times.I was brought up in bowling back lane.I would love to see that how it used to be before they pulled down all the back to back houses.very interested this film new those areas to.
You need to do other areas of Bradford like BD8 or BD9 instead of just sticking to BD3.
Some of the Nick's photos were taken in other BDs and we've already filmed a few.
Of course we are looking to do videos in other parts Bradford in the future. Thank you 👍
In the sixties and seventies, it wasn’t a bad old place...now it's a depressing shit hole, and when M&S closes, it will be the end of shopping for me...
I can understand the way you feel, but the areas visited in the video are a small part of Bradford. A recent drive up Kings Road around Brisbane Avenue and surrounding streets show a different story, clean streets and well kept gardens.
It was better in 1969. It's as simple as that!
Anyone notice the elephant in the room?
There was no elephant or a room. I think you were watching a different video.
@@WillScarlet1991 I know. Your mum
@@santorini8423 Incel alert..
@@WillScarlet1991are you American?
@@santorini8423 Nope. English 😊
Hey dude it’s worth checking the Don McCullin photos from 1970s Bradford - obviously McCullin was a renowned war photographer so his images of Bradford very special.
Many thanks, I will look into in it and ask for permission to use them.
@@TheBradfordDistrictChannel I also have lots of old black and white pictures of Bradford would love to let you use them
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Something I've always wanted to know is where did all the sandstone flags go apart from the one's that have been stolen Bradford council must have made hundreds of thousands in there removal and subsequent sale. I no longer live in the district and I'm sorry to say that i don't ever intend to return a once proud city has been left to decay with years of bad management and under investment.
The Yorkshire Dales national park, like the dry stone walls the West Riding farmers have been selling off for good money and replacing with barbed wire that they string themselves -badly.
born on wapping rd 1968 went to the school went in the prospect as a kid, even today inside is still done out as a late 50s pub old lass that had it keep it the same , its a time warp inside had a pint in there 2 days before it closed and watched the power station get blown up from that location about 100yrds to right oppersite the sweet shop thats no more when sweets came 1oz 2oz 4oz 8oz 16 oz
Fascinating, its a shame alot of the houses were demolished around there, good communities gone and now lost in time.
I use to go in that shop. She use to sell liquourish sweets that looked like tree branches. And i watch the cooling towers getting blown up. Was it 1980/81 ish?
The shop used to be my mates grandma parttsons but good old bradford council said all the hill back was falling away so they purchased all the houses for peanuts but look now where the wild boar pub was there's new houses for social housing braford is a shithole and will end up a bronx lawless
Not a lot to smile about there.
Indeed it is rather sad
I find these pictures of past lives so poignant. Most of my life is now down the time line. I was brought up just off Bradford Rd, Batley.
Very interesting video & old memories. But please avoid negative background music. But irritating. If I ever end up making a video, there will be positive music but as low as possible.
Not having the town gas collector is an improvement
That old building behind the guy was supposed to be turned into a social centre.
@@rosewhite--- wow and sadly its going to be demolished. City planners should force developers to retain some of the original frontage of Bradford's heritage buildings when re-development takes place.
Show Manningham then and now
Thats in the pipeline! Thanks for watching the video.
Still the same really
No chimneys, more trees now. The Prospect of Bradford pub closed in 2017, it was built in 1869 by Waller's Bradford Brewery which was at the bottom end of Trafalgar Street before 1914. This was bought by the Midland Railway, who wanted to build a railway connecting the two Bradford stations (obviously they never did). The company then moved brewing to Hipperholme, of all places, but kept the Bradford in its name which has been resurrected as a pub in the Sunbridgewells tunnels. They were taken over in 1935 by Melbourne Brewery, which was grabbed by Tetleys in 1960. The pub was sold off and became a free house in the Eighties, and then did good cask beer including Timothy Taylor's but it was too isolated to attract many folk -the lack of parking didn't help, so creating a gastropub wouldn't have worked and that was the only way it would have made money.
Where was this?.....not Bradford, it can't be.
The council are philistines........
I take it your from Team Blue then! 😂
Progress is a process of loss......sorry to have to tell you that..
@doctor. Eh?! bollox
El al bradfordabad.
Wapping,/Bolton and around Peace Street is still predominantly White - lovely people I met but it surprised me bearing in mind its location. What is surprising, visiting streets around there Bradford definitely is not Bradfordabad - worth taking a look, many old Bradfordian families still there.
Bratfud
Place hasn't changed one bit😂
😂😂
I lived in Bradford and area in the early 70s and even without the mournful violins it wasn't as depressing as you're trying to make this look. Kids could still safely walk home from school for instance. I wonder what proof of the "active recruitment" of ex-Empire Asians you have? The celebrated "Windrush" story is mostly lies. Fact is: Jamaica had serious unemployment problems. Muslims and Hindus fought in the streets back then too.
You're right, it wasn’t, but it is now...
OP seems to be talking a lot of shyte, especially the fake nonsense about Muslims and Hindus attacking each other. We were united against a common enemy: the National Front.
There's plenty of proof. Of recruitment of ex empire Asians called to work on low paid menial jobs by the tory British government requesting migrants to come and work in these wealthy white wool merchants factories due to lack of local recruits or unwillingness of locals to take on menial low paid jobs! Simple! These poor immigrants back then came from very poor countries rulled by corrupt western backed puppets who had made the lives of these poor people a living helll with lack of opportunities do any menial jobs was an opportunity plus the wealthy tories needed cheap labour so they requested migrants from these western planted puppet rulers to send cheap labour over to these northern industrial towns simple! The real culprits are the super wealthy tories not the poor migrants who still lack opportunities to this day including their descendents still facing low paid jobs and racism!
Yes same as Moss Side in Manchester during 1970s.
And now it’s BRADISTAN. Very sad.
Bullshit
Yes it is
Don’t be like that…
The Asians saved the place from becoming like Detroit.
I take it you are an avid fan of little Tommy! 😂
No longer English town anymore…
Surprisingly it still is an English town, even the streets shown in the video I was surprised Ii came across alot of wonderful members of the English community around Wapping etc very good people
It’s true what they say, It’s Grim up North
@halal. Cause southerners keep voting Torys into power, so all monies flow to London. Levelling up, my arse. Bradford has beautiful architecture and warm, wonderful residents, way better than Leeds.
And The 1 in 12 Club was amazing night out.
"Has anything improved?".........NOOOO! It's far worse now with all this riff raff . The place is a pig sty.
Hence why the question was posed 😬
Bradford was never a good place but at least it had life back then, now it's just a dirty half destroyed looking war zone
That's what happens with years of under investment and corruption in the council and politicians that line their own pockets over the years making false promises of regeneration !
Look not a mosque in sight oh happy days
Mosques don’t make you unhappy, the way you generate your thoughts, do.
The Muslims have been spending their own money (which they got from WORKING) on building mosques, which look good and aren't concrete boxes. Well done to them.
Little Tommy Robinson spotted 😂!
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