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The National Science and Media Museum "will retain collections that help explore the development of photographic processes, such as the Kodak collection; the cultural impact of photography, such as the Daily Herald archive; and archives that have a direct relevance to Bradford."
Impressions Gallery is a charity, a not-for-profit organisation, funded by Arts Council England and Bradford Metropolitan District Council. [2]The gallery is host to a temporary exhibitions programme with on average six exhibitions each year, often solo retrospective shows of mid-career photographers, and also some group shows.
Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. [5] Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy , phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak .
The estate changed hands several times thereafter until eventually it was let to several tenants until being presented to Bradford Corporation in 1912. [4] It was opened as a museum three years later. [5] The kitchen of Bolling Hall Bolling Hall. During the second siege of Bradford in 1643, during the English Civil War, the house was a Royalist ...
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Bradford Star (1981-2000) [1] Harrogate Herald (1847–1957), pub. Robert Ackrill. [2] Hull Portfolio, radical newspaper of James Acland, founded c.1831. The Hull Packet and East Riding Times [3] / The Hull Packet Humber Mercury or Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Advertiser [4] / Yorkshire Advertiser; Leeds Intelligencer; Leeds Mercury; Thirsk and ...
The museum offers two floors of exhibits in the former jail's cells related to county history from its early days to the present. Displays include early settler's household and farm equipment, area industry displays including coal mining and lumbering, medicine, glassware, transportation, textiles, a 1950s era jail cell and military objects.
A British Railways Crane Wagon is on display outside near the museum gates. In the tram shed is the only tramcar left in Bradford, [11] and a Bradford trolleybus. [4] [12] [13] The first horse-drawn trams were introduced in 1882, followed by steam trams in 1883 and electric trams in 1898. Trolleybuses ran in Bradford from 1911 to 1972. [14]