My previous post was about a visit to Bradford with members of the Bingley Camera Club. The 6 of 5 Go group 7. Since then the Darley Street Market has opened to the public, so on Wednesday, 30 July, I went to have a look at it, with my camera.
I have arranged the photos in tiled galleries. You can click on a photo to see it larger and better quality and with the option to click on the i for more information about it. There will also be arrows to navigate between the photos in the gallery.
Outside
These are a few photos of the outside of the market.
The gates from the old Kirkgate market have been repainted and one of them is in the courtyard. Another is upstairs on the Kitchen floor, see below.
Inside
The inside is on three floors
- Lifestyle Hall on the ground floor. Clothes, beauty, hair, etc.
- Fresh Food Hall on the first floor. Butchers, fish mongers, fruit & veg., international food.
- Darley St Kitchen on the 2nd floor. Food & Drink.
The portrait in nails of David Hockney on the Kitchen wall next to Mr T’s is the one commissioned by Little Germany Ltd. and it was originally on the wall of a building on Chapel St. at the junction with Peckover St.
Views from the Market
It is not often that you get above ground level in the city and be able to see outside. These are from the terrace of the Darley St Kitchen level.
The view isn’t anything special but I find it interesting to just have different views of the buildings. The spire is the top of the Wool Exchange, the building behind it is Arndale House, and the building in front, with the people on the fire escape is the block above 45 Hustlergate – Lloyds Bank. Both prospective apartment blocks. The view of Piccadilly shows West Riding House on Cheapside at the back left.
Bradford Streets
These are a few photos of the buildings and streets around Darley St.
Quite a few of the shops are closed. I don’t know how much of this is due to the Broadway Centre opening, or the moving of the markets to new premises, the big plans for the city centre, or…..
From the ground the dome on 1 Market Street looked as though the side of it was open to the air but zooming in on the photo once I was home shows that it has rather fancy metalwork in what I thought was the open window.
The Mills Transformed book in Waterstones is by Neil Horsley, a fellow Bingley Camera Club member.
I did try to get views of the roof garden next to Arndale House. You can see a tiny bit of green from the ground, but the best I could get was from the first floor windows of The Light where you can see green but not much else.
This is a photo from 2019 of the portrait in nails of David Hockney on the building in Chapel St.
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