Bradford has undergone many changes in recent years. With City Park and the soon-to-open new Westfield development, the centre is taking on a vibrancy that has for many years been lacking.

Over time, parts of the city have changed dramatically, but echoes of the past still exist in grand stone buildings and streets.

An undated picture of Ivegate - which from the shoppers’ clothing could be the 1920s or 1930s - shows the then cobbled lane, with its elegant gas lamps and shops including Jackson’s ladies and gents hats and coats,the Argenta Meat company, and at the top the Grosvenor Hotel.

The image of Forster Square was taken in 1936 from the then General Post Office in St Peter’s House. Tram cables criss-cross the cobbled street, which is bordered by tram shelters. The YMCA occupies a building to the left while the Midland Hotel can be seen to the rear of the picture. Built between 1885 and 1890 by the Midland Railway Company, the hotel was a showpiece for the railway company’s northern operations, and is of particular architectural interest, with some of the finest Victorian interiors in the city. Investment has seen the hotel restored to its original glory.

Thirty-seven years later, the cables and shelters have disappeared, and in their place is a stark, uninviting square accessible via an underpass, with a concrete shelter and unimaginative fountain. The General Post Office seen at the rear, now houses the Kala Sangham Arts Centre, a South Asian and collaborative arts organisation.

With the exception of its ground floor canopy and a raised section at the right-hand side, side, St George’s Hall - which opened in August 1853 -has changed little since this (undated) photograph was taken. The crime drama ‘I Stole a Million’ with George Raft is playing, as well as ‘Back Street’, with the French actor Charles Boyer.

In 1898 St Georges showed its first film. In 1901 the hall became used for film shows and by 1905 the shows were presented in colour. The following year disc-synchronised talking films were shown.

Regular film-goers will have flocked to Bradford’s Dudley Hill Picture Palace cinema in Tong Street, captured in this photograph taken in February 1982. The brick-built cinema opened in 1912 with ‘How’s Your father?’ and closed in 1967 with the double feature ‘Thunderbirds are Go’ and ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ Modern day uses have includes a bingo hall and, latterly, a carpet shop.

Taken from Valley Parade in May 1956, Valley Road Power Station looms large. The chimney is almost 50 feet taller than the 255ft chimney at Lister’s Mill. The power station’s wooden-construction cooling towers (known as Davenport Towers) that can be seen, supported by criss-crossed iron work, consumed three million gallons of water a week, with power being obtained from a daily intake of 200 tons of coal.

The hoardings around the football ground include Bradford Seabrook crisps, still going strong after 70 years and Hammond’s chop sauce – now US-owned and made in Lancashire.

This 1974 image of Cartwright Hall, which opened in 1904, has remained unchanged.