Ashbourne Estate in 1964 (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Ashbourne Estate in 1964

4:14pm Thursday 6th November 2008 in From the Air

The Ashbourne estate in the Bolton area of Bradford was largely completed by the time C H Wood took this aerial photograph in 1964.

But a lot of details have been added to the landscape in the intervening 44 years.

There are now rows of shops at the junctions of Grove House Road and Kingsdale Crescent with Bolton Road (which runs straight up the right-hand side of the photograph, past St James’s Church).

The Morrisons supermarket at Bolton Junction (which was later a QLM store and is now a temporary furniture store) had still to be built, as had the leisure centre, medical centre, houses and Eccleshill Library on the area of open land (top right) bounded by Idle Road and Pullan Avenue.

In 1964 the view from the rear windows of the houses on the western side of High House Road (on the left of the picture) looked across open fields to the ancient and attractive cottages of Hodgson Fold (which survives at the end of Myers Lane).

Now, though, the modern buildings and playing fields of Grove House First School and Hanson School are in the way.

Picture courtesy of Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage.