THOUSANDS of revellers have enjoyed Saltaire Festival’s big closing weekend celebrations.

The biggest event in Saltaire’s calendar saw the village host dozens of events, many of them free.

The music-filled weekend marked the grand finale for this year’s festival, which began on September 8.

The crowds packed into Roberts Park to see live bands perform throughout the day yesterday and today, as the weather stayed mostly sunny and dry with just the occasional shower.

Yesterday's line-up saw musical acts Motion Complex, Tenfields, Rock Bottom Risers, King Zepha, Waiting for Wednesday and Mad Jack and the Hatters entertain the crowds on the main stage.

Today's entertainment came courtesy of the Backyard Burners, Kascarade, Howlin’ Jonny and the Devil’s Rejects, The Rockets and Eddie Earthquake and the Tremors.

Live music fans could also watch acts perform at Caroline Social Club on both days.

And in the surrounding streets there were a wide variety of exhibitions, food markets, musical acts and arts events for visitors to enjoy.

Rail enthusiasts young and old headed to nearby Baildon Recreation Centre, where the Shipley Model Railway Society hosted its 39th annual model railway exhibition.

Society chairman Frank Davies said: “It’s gone very well. We are delighted to be back, because disappointingly last year, we were unable to put on our exhibition because the hall hadn’t been recommissioned by the Council after the horrific floods of Boxing Day 2015, so we unfortunately had to pull the plug.”

Mr Davies said around 15 model railway layouts, of different scales, gauges and time periods, had been on show over the weekend. He said fine-scale models could take upwards of 10 to 15 years to build.

One of the layouts on show was the society’s own under-construction model of the station at Clayton, Bradford.

He said: “It was demolished in the late 1960s but we are delighted we can recreate it in model form. That’s under construction, we have just finished putting the track down and we can now start with the scenic area and the buildings.”

Art was a key theme of the festival, with regular David Hockney Gallery tours at Salts Mill among the attractions.

And at Victoria Hall, the Saltaire Vintage Home and Fashion Fair offered clothes, accessories and homewares from decades gone by. The shopping theme continued in Exhibition Road, which hosted a continental street market, and Caroline Street car park, which became a craft fair.