Bradford's best known son, the writer J. B. Priestley, once wrote, 'Bradford is a vast series of pictures, in time and space; it is a hundred thousand succeeding states of mind.' Gary Firth's selection of more than two hundred old pictures is an attempt to tap into Priestley's mental pictures - the many facets of Bradford during the period of over half a century from 1880 to the 1950s. These fascinating pictures should evoke reminiscences of buildings and streets long since gone as well as stir memories of the way of life of men, women and children going about their work and play in this busy, vibrant manufacturing city.