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LOST Bradford

Lost Bradford is a collection of images held at Bradford Central Library. The reason behind this set of pages is to give greater access to photographs that record a historical period that has disappeared for ever. Included in this collection are images of the former Central Library on Darley Street, the Swan Arcade, the Bradford Beck etc. all of which are evocative of a Bradford long gone. The Alhambra Theatre is very much alive, but the pictures of it here capture it an earlier stage in its history, when it looked quite different.

The process of change never stops, however, and we'll soon be refreshing this site with pictures of buildings lost from the landscape of 2006...

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