Tag Archives: Bradford

Dec 20 2025
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Daily Post, Family Member, Portrait

Back of my head, x3

Friday 19th December 2025, 3.30pm (day 5,230)

Triplicate selfie, 19/12/25

Spent the first few hours of my Xmas break having an extended lie-in, then spent the next few wandering around Bradford, a place I have come to quite like down the years. This complicated selfie was taken in the National Media Museum (which lately has become the ‘National Science and Media Museum’ so it can continue to squeeze funding out of our reluctant state apparatus): a kind of ‘digital hall of mirrors’ installation. As you can see, despite my advancing years, my body still refuses to shed much hair.

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Dec 08 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Bradford Interchange

Sunday 7th December 2025, 12.40pm (day 5,218)

Bradford Interchange, 7/12/25

341 days into Bradford’s reign as the 2025 UK City of Culture and it does, at least, seem to have a) finished the roadworks and b) decided to try to tell people why they should visit (this is one of three similar murals in the bowels of Bradford Interchange bus station). But let’s assume that it has been a useful year for them. It is a decent city, better than some.

R. I. P. Martin Parr, by the way; if there is one photographer who I suppose I might be trying to consciously emulate, it was probably him. Check out his work if you are at all interested in this medium.

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Oct 01 2025
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The flywheel

Tuesday 30th September 2025, 9.50pm (day 5,150)

Low Moor flywheel, 30/9/25

This giant wheel, tipped over onto its side but still propped up a little by its axle, lies by the top of New Works Road in Bradford, remnant of, and memorial to, one of the various coal mines which used to operate around here, but no more. These days, it indicates the point at which the chemical factory district turns back into the real world. I’ve done various pictures of the factories in the past, so today (tonight), let’s see the wheel.

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Aug 25 2025
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Daily Post, Portrait, Stranger

Trying to make an impression?

Sunday 24th August 2025, 1.45pm (day 5,113)

Press ups, 24/8/25

Possibly she has known this guy for years and considers this just normal behaviour. Possibly they met last week in the gym and their Sunday in Bradford city centre is a first date. Possibly I should stop speculating about the lives of total strangers, but let me retain my little entertainments here and there.

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Aug 18 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

Sunday football, Peel Park

Sunday 17th August 2025, 12.10pm (day 5,106)

Peel Park football, 17/8/25

With little better that was worth doing this morning I wandered over to Bradford where the local Sunday leagues were running their first round of fixtures for the season. Three games were taking place simultaneously on Peel Park and this shot is taken from a point kind of in the middle of each of them, but with this pitch slightly elevated, hence the low viewpoint. This was one of those pictures which is being used here because it was what was intended when the shutter was pressed: always a good thing.

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Aug 06 2025
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Moonrise

Tuesday 5th August 2025, 9.05pm (day 5,094)

Moon and rooves, 5/8/25

The moon looks much the same from Bradford as it does from everywhere else, I imagine (until you get down below the Equator, when it does this weird turning upside-down thing), But here we have a nice conjunction, I think. Will it come out unscathed after its journey along the serrated edge? Probably.

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May 09 2025
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Daily Post, Interior

Waiting for ‘Swan Lake’

Thursday 8th May 2025, 7.20pm (day 5,005)

The wife, who apparently has been waiting to see this version of Swan Lake (you know, the one with the male swans) for 20 years, asked me out on a date for this one, and it was like, why not. It thereby becomes the fourth ballet that I have witnessed. The first was decades ago, the other two have been depicted on here: these guys in Moscow should count, and this cameraman was definitely about to film one.

And my review: yes, it was pretty good, it definitely had a sense of humour (which for the other ballets I mention, was not in evidence). I was keeping up with it all until about 40 minutes in, when the swans arrived. After that I kind of lost the plot a bit. But there were plenty of people on the stage who could dance very well and looked very good whilst they did so. There you go, that’s my review of Drew’s Ballet Experience #4.

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Apr 18 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

View obscured by flags

Thursday 17th April 2025, 7.50pm (day 4,984)

Bradford City flags, 17/4/25

When buying tickets for football grounds with which one is not wholly acquainted, it might help if warnings were issued to the casual fan: “You are entering an area occupied entirely by people who want to stand up throughout the game and wave flags.” I mean, I admire their enthusiasm and respect their support — but after a few minutes, I moved, somewhere right up the top.

This is Bradford City’s ground; their game against Notts County attracted over 20,000 people to see a fourth-tier game — so someone, somewhere is doing something right…

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Feb 16 2025
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Daily Post, Sport

King George V playing fields, Bradford

Sunday 16th February 2025, 11.20am (day 4,924)

Bradford Sunday league, 16/2/25

Heading to Sunday morning football in Bradford was better than hanging around at home doing nothing. With this shot I guess I was just hoping the symmetries came out OK. On reflction I say that the imbalance of the black windows at the top, vis-a-vis the dranpipes below, is not my problem. Anyway, why should I be the one pointing out the imperfections?

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Dec 14 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Home of our robot overlords

Friday 13th December 2024, 10.00pm (day 4,859)

Low Moor factories, 13/12/24

The chemical plant which spreads for many acres around Low Moor railway station is one of my favourite places, at least for photography. Particularly at night, it looks magnificent: like the setting for Brazil or Blade Runner or some other sci-fi dystopia. (It looks interesting from a distance too, as suggested the last time it appeared on here, on September 1st.) And there are never any people seen there. In a few decades’ time perhaps the whole planet will be run from such places. Perhaps it already is.

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