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Category: Doors
There are things you know about and things you don’t, the known and the unknown and in between are the doors…
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A portal through time and space? Or just a storage shed for … stuff?
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Found on the last stretch of the Old Leeds Road that’s in Bradford, this church seemingly closed its doors on the 19th of September 2021. I don’t think it even made it 100 years before closing – it looks like it was built in 1927, according to the foundation stones here: So as an institution,…
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Not a post about something particularly rich in history this week; nor is it even a door to somewhere that features in the grander scheme of things in any particular way. It’s merely the reception door for an engineering firm, but something about this door has always drawn my eye to it. I get mid-eighties…
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It’s hard to miss High Point, its name alone revealing where it sits: in an ominous, vaguely threatening vantage point over the city. From here, it looms over Bradford, the buildings around it dwarfed in comparison, although this is largely a trick of perspective. It was built in 1972 as the headquarters for the Yorkshire…
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Another door to nowhere, this entrance way reminded me a little of some kind of shrine… although to what, who knows, as there are only dead leaves within. I remain ignorant of its true original purpose. It could potentially have been a one man bandstand, I suppose. Whatever its true function, it can be found…
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Bit of a cheat this week… well kind of. It’s essentially a door to nowhere. Up the Manchester Road, behind the Station Hotel, there’s a large swathe of land that’s been earmarked for future development. In fact, if you search for the Station Hotel on google maps, one of the first images shows you what…
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Across the road from Bradford College on Horton Road, there’s this orphaned door. I say orphaned because I’m fairly sure it opens into a coffee shop called Dunker’s Delight. I do know that there was once a bar here called Motown Rock… but I can’t really find out anything else about it, so instead, here’s…
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The entrance to this gallery in Cartwright Hall, Lister Park.
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An unusual coat of arms marks this week’s Bradford Doors post.
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In 1815, a steam powered worsted mill was built on this site – but it no longer survives. The building in these pictures dates back to 1870 and was designed by Milnes & France – who also designed the Bradford Royal Infirmary. At one point in its history, there would have been 400 people working…