Tag Archives: culture

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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Feb 05 2025
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Daily Post, Urban scene

Chinatown

Tuesday 4th February 2025, 8:55am (day 4,912)

Chinatown lanters, 4/2/25

One of those seasonal themes, coming a little late this year — Chinese New Year celebrations have yet to make it to St Helena. Manchester always sprouts a healthy crop, though.

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Oct 16 2024
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Daily Post, Urban scene

The City of Culture is Unready

Tuesday 15th October 2024, 5.25pm (day 4,800)

City of Culture sign, 15/10/24

In 2025, Bradford will become the UK’s City of Culture, and the sign proclaims this: from the rear, the slope on the left is one of the 2s, with the zero to the other side. Behind, a small part of the gigantic, desperate building site that constitutes most of its city centre at the present time. The bus station is entirely closed, having been declared unsafe a while back. You can’t get a taxi from anywhere particularly near the railway station. And all this with exactly eleven weeks to go until 1st January. City of Culture? Perhaps this chaos and neglect is, indeed, representative of the UK in this epoch.

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