Here is another batch of images of from our archives – Bradford city centre during the seventies.
From grey skies to glorious sunshine, office workers and shoppers take time out to see what the city centre has to offer.
1974: On site of the former Mechanics Institute, now Centenary Square, workers lay out turf creating an open space which was quickly dubbed Bradford’s own ‘grassy knoll’.
A busy shopping scene with the Mechanics Institute sandwiched between the window displays of shoe store Saxone, dating from 1972.
A quiet day outside John Street market. Who remembers taking a break from shopping and a grabbing some lunch from the popular Fountains Coffee House?
Broadway had long been a place to meet up with others, relax while shopping or just watch the world go by, as this 1971 picture shows.
Broadway in 1974.
It may have been August, but that was no reason to take off your coat, at least according to these shoppers in 1972.
Shoppers and office-workers take a break on Broadway during the July heat of 1972.
The Christmas decorations were still in place in mid-January 1972, but the wintry weather evidently did not hold much joy for these Broadway shoppers.
This 1974 picture shows the demolition-in-progress of the Mechanics Institute on what is now the edge of Centenary Square. To the right is Sunbridge Road and what is now the In Plaice chip shop.
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