Bradford on Film tells the story of the city's people, places, industries, traditions, celebrations, major events and everyday working lives across the decades, all captured on film and revealed once again for everyone to see and enjoy.

What's fascinating about these films is that many of them have been made by local people – amateur filmmakers and home movie enthusiasts – whose collections now sit alongside and complement other treasures in our Archive collections, including pioneering production companies and more recent regional television programmes. Together they create a rich and extraordinary record of life in and around Bradford over the past century.

From days out to Shipley Glen, Haworth, or Saltaire, to life during World War II; Bradford’s industrial heritage and the changes to the city as it expanded and developed, to grabbing a bargain at Kirkgate Market, hopping on the trolley bus, shouting from the rugby and football terraces, the vibrancy of the Mela, or the obligatory curry after a dance at the Blue Lace nightclub, it’s all here in Bradford on Film.