Bank holidays give us a chance to relax and let our hair down.

Others prefer to sign up for the many activities on offer over the long weekend and school half-term holiday that follows it.

This year Bradford Sky Ride, Saltaire Arts Trail and Bradford Literature Festival are among the many things taking place in the district over Whit Bank Holiday week at the end of May.

These shots of years gone by offer an insight into some interesting social changes, with women almost absent from the ‘annual road walk’, here shown on the route through Bradford city centre in May 1985, 1991 and 1993. The dapper-looking man at the front (centre) of the 1985 walk has a Tom Selleck hair style typical of the times.

Walks seem now to have been overtaken by runs.

A walk organised by the T&A in May 1978 is depicted in a shot of a very large pram in which two youngsters are riding.

An arm-clapping crowd scene is taken in Peel Park at a concert by the glam rock band Mud. It looks to be a grey day, with most people wearing anoraks, zipped up against the cold.

It looks like another chilly day on May 31 1993, when youngsters rode on a miniature steam railway at a fun day organised by Bradford Council. They look like they are having fun, although the little lad at the front appears a little nervous.

Taken on a better day, in 1994, it is not known what the crowd - again in Peel Park - are cheering for. Let us know if you can throw light on it; maybe you are in the picture.