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Whetley Hill in 1967

7:58am Thursday 5th February 2009

The latest in our series of aerial shots by CH Wood takes a look at the Whetley Hill area just outside Bradford city centre.

Laisterdyke around 1970

8:43am Thursday 29th January 2009

Those who lived their life in Bradford 40 years or so ago might never have even known about this ‘advertisement’ for the city on top of the gasholder at the Birkshall Gasworks near Sticker Lane, Laisterdyke.

Toller Lane in 1965

7:56am Thursday 22nd January 2009

Anyone who has fought their way up Toller Lane at rush hour will be astonished by the lack of traffic on this picture from the CH Wood collection, taken in 1965.

Thornton in 1969

8:22am Thursday 15th January 2009

The viaduct, which formerly carried the railway line from Bradford to Keighley, draws the eye in this C H Wood aerial photograph of Thornton, from 1969.

Idle in 1960

4:39pm Thursday 8th January 2009

Idle still had its station buildings (just visible at the bottom of the picture) and the railway passing through it in this undated though probably early 1960s photograph taken by CH Wood.

Clayton Lane Ends 1966

8:38am Friday 2nd January 2009

Clayton’s 19th century transformation from rural hamlet to mill village is evident in the foreground of this photograph, taken by CH Wood in 1966.

Bradford city centre 1966

8:03am Thursday 18th December 2008

Just how short a distance Bradford’s two stations were from being joined up is clear in this aerial photograph of the city centre, taken by CH Wood in 1966.

Lower Grange, 1967

10:40am Thursday 11th December 2008

The houses and flats of the Lower Grange estate were steadily being created in the open space to the south of Allerton, making a marked contrast with the terrace cottages and mills of the old village, in this aerial picture taken by C H Wood in 1967. With its neat roads and houses, the estate looks more like an architects’ model than the real thing – an impression reinforced by the relative absence of vehicles.

Bradford Royal Infirmary in 1965

3:53pm Thursday 4th December 2008

There was an area of open fields divided by stone walls to the north of Smith Lane, above the Bradford Royal Infirmary, when CH Wood took this photograph from above in the summer of 1965.

Pollard Park in 1977

5:34pm Thursday 27th November 2008

Pollard Park was all fresh and new and still under construction when a Telegraph & Argus photographer took this aerial shot of the city in 1977. The recently-created Greenway footpath/ cycleway snakes past the houses to cross New Otley Road via a footbridge and ends at Otley Road itself, near blocks of flats which have only lately been demolished. Carlton Bolling College (then merely a ‘School’) stands between the playing fields on its left and Undercliffe Cemetery to the right of the picture.