A NEW £8 million 'memory lane' care home designed for people living with dementia will open its doors in Clayton.

The "state of the art" new facility will be built by the family company which runs The Glen Nursing Home in Baildon and the Five Rise Nursing Home in Bingley.

The Five Rise home received a great deal of attention when its yesteryear street was unveiled.

Featuring old-fashioned lamp-posts, bus stops, a telephone box and a row of shops, including a traditional barbers, a post office and green grocer's, the aim was to create a living space to spark memories and help with reminiscence therapy.

And at the end of each 'street' are mural-style photographs of local places, including Five Rise Locks, the Alhambra, Bradford City football ground and Bingley's Market Street. A cinema, showing film classics, is decorated with vintage movie posters, while a dining area has a 1950s kitchen cabinet and cooker.

It also features a sitting-room area with leather-backed chairs, a 1960s TV set and record player, a grandfather clock and various objects people would remember from the past.

The Bingley and Baildon sites will provide a blueprint for the new Clayton home, which will will be built on land off The Avenue, on a previously undeveloped site next to Clayton Cricket Club. The homes are the brainchild of Damien and Daniel Holt, who grew up in a nursing home owned by their father, Brendan.

The brothers became psychiatric nurses and were spurred on to pursue their innovative approach after seeing the positive impact of introducing street scene noises and birds tweeting.

The approach is one which can have a huge impact when caring for people with dementia.

"They can relate back," Daniel said. "I remember this shop or this memorabilia."

At the Clayton home, Daniel said the memory lane feature will be expanded and the new spot will give people on the other side of Bradford an opportunity to experience this type of home.

Work is expected to start this year and it will open in the next year to year-and-a-half.

As well as the memory lane feature to stimulate old memories, there will also be a sensory garden to enable those living at the home to touch and smell plants, plus dayrooms, a cinema room and a hairdressers.

Another Bradford care home was also in the spotlight for a similar scheme.

Gateway Care Home, in Sticker Lane, Dudley Hill, transformed one of its rooms into a replica railway carriage.

It's complete with a moving countryside scene in the window to give residents and patients the feel of a real-life train journey.

The idea came from visits to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway.

As passengers on the train, residents are served a lunch, and it allows residents, some of whom have mobility issues, to experience a trip on the train.

Inside the room, there is a ticket office, platform and carriage, where residents can enjoy a meal as they watch the countryside go by through the window.

Some seats in the carriage were also been donated by the Keighley Worth Valley Railway to give residents a more realistic experience of a rail journey. The home said it had been like a new lease of life for some residents.