My roots are in so much of this short journey. Many of my father's uncles and cousins worked on the Bradford trams as drivers and Inspectors, and it caused a permanent rift in the family when my father turned down an offer of work with Bradford Corporation Tramways to pursue an apprenticeship in the printing trade instead. My maternal great-grandfather was a stone mason who worked on building Forster Square Station where the film begins, and I remember as a child catching many steam trains from there. The journey then turns right at The Midlands Hotel onto Cheapside, following the route my bus used to take up Manor Row to Carlton Grammar School, which I attended, the school burnt down in 1987, but was situated on the corner at the top of the hill, you get a brief glimpse of the iron gates just before the road becomes Manningham Lane. The shots of new tramline being laid is by the corner gates to Lister Park, or more commonly known in my youth as Manningham Park. Not far from the road, on the left side of Manningham Lane was a nursing home where I was born. The road then bends to the right and becomes Keighley Road, and on to Saltaire, where my paternal great grandfather died whilst working at the tram shed there. This film is such a treasure to have been found, and the restoration is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing this video. It is a fascinating look into the past as if looking through a "time portal". It is interesting that nobody ever waves to the camera in these early films. Today it is an almost automatic response for people to wave when being filmed. Filming was so new in 1902 that people did not know how to react. They either stared at the camera or ignored it.
How lovely love Bradford 🙌❤🙌
My roots are in so much of this short journey. Many of my father's uncles and cousins worked on the Bradford trams as drivers and Inspectors, and it caused a permanent rift in the family when my father turned down an offer of work with Bradford Corporation Tramways to pursue an apprenticeship in the printing trade instead. My maternal great-grandfather was a stone mason who worked on building Forster Square Station where the film begins, and I remember as a child catching many steam trains from there. The journey then turns right at The Midlands Hotel onto Cheapside, following the route my bus used to take up Manor Row to Carlton Grammar School, which I attended, the school burnt down in 1987, but was situated on the corner at the top of the hill, you get a brief glimpse of the iron gates just before the road becomes Manningham Lane. The shots of new tramline being laid is by the corner gates to Lister Park, or more commonly known in my youth as Manningham Park. Not far from the road, on the left side of Manningham Lane was a nursing home where I was born. The road then bends to the right and becomes Keighley Road, and on to Saltaire, where my paternal great grandfather died whilst working at the tram shed there. This film is such a treasure to have been found, and the restoration is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing this video. It is a fascinating look into the past as if looking through a "time portal". It is interesting that nobody ever waves to the camera in these early films. Today it is an almost automatic response for people to wave when being filmed. Filming was so new in 1902 that people did not know how to react. They either stared at the camera or ignored it.
Nice to see the SPOTTED HOUSE PUB as it was. Also a nice shot off BUSBY'S opposite the ROYAL STANDARD
Those tram drivers must have gotten really cold in the winter months
No cars hen
Then