Bradford Institute of Technology in 1962 (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Bradford Institute of Technology in 1962

8:48am Thursday 6th November 2008 in From the Air By Mike Priestley

It was later to become the University of Bradford, but when C H Wood took this aerial photograph in 1962 the new building growing up between Great Horton Road and Tumbling Hill Street was known as the Bradford Institute of Technology.

The Telegraph & Argus reported, on July 16 of that year: “With work going strictly to schedule, the first students will move into part of the new premises for the autumn term, when the first four floors of the engineering block will come into use in the wing on the right.”

Work had started in June, 1960. Both the tall blocks seen in the picture were due to be completed by September of the following year. The building was designed by the city architect, Mr W Clifford Brown.

The surrounding area has since largely been cleared and filled with buildings and open spaces connected to the university campus. Most of the mills and warehouses are gone now. The houses which lined the side of Richmond Road facing what was shaping up to be the institute’s grand new entrance were flattened shortly after this photograph was taken.

Picture used by permission of Bradford Industrial Museum, Moorside Road, Eccleshill.