Ten images of Bradford's Broadway from down the years, taken from some of the hundreds of glass plate negatives we have stored in our archives. Some of which have never been seen before.
The top of Broadway near what was the Ritz cinema. The decorations are for the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
Excavating building foundations, 1959.
Under construction, Broadway, in 1959.
Entering a new phase, Broadway, pictured December 24, 1959.
Broadway still open to traffic in this early Sixties photograph, with Stone’s electric shop at the junction with Forster Square.
The new opening of the new WH Smith store in Bradford's Broadway, 1960.
1960: The modern interior of the new WH Smith store, Broadway.
Broadway from City Hall.
Broadway, April 1961, showing the junction with Charles Street.
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