{"id":1218,"date":"2014-05-04T13:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-05-04T13:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1218"},"modified":"2014-05-04T13:57:43","modified_gmt":"2014-05-04T13:57:43","slug":"bradford-city-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marfell.me.uk\/wordpress\/bradford-city-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bradford City Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in Bradford yesterday playing Ingress but of course had my camera with me. I went down to City Park when it was getting a bit quieter and took this slightly different view of the pool.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"City Park by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/13917566250\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5237\/13917566250_f66ef2cc67_c.jpg\" alt=\"City Park\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is nice to see that the Westfield site is now being worked on. It is supposed to be finished by December 2015 I believe.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Westfield development by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/13917535977\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2909\/13917535977_c43df55cb5_c.jpg\" alt=\"Westfield development\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It will be an interesting contrast when it is finished. Bradford has some lovely buildings that survived the &#8220;regeneration&#8221; of the 50&#8217;s and 60&#8217;s. I am not sure I like this one but it has &#8220;character&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Old and New by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/13917540249\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5484\/13917540249_2a7c29c752_c.jpg\" alt=\"Old and New\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very close to the centre of the city there are some ruins though. This is behind the Odeon which itself is close to becoming a ruin.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"City Centre Ruins by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/14101095872\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5531\/14101095872_85d4436559_c.jpg\" alt=\"City Centre Ruins\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The neglect in some of the buildings shows in the size of some of the trees growing out of them.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"City Forest by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/14081067266\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2932\/14081067266_3c907483a1_c.jpg\" alt=\"City Forest\" width=\"435\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though there are decent runs of long buildings, with styles varying there are still single buildings left that have had their neighbours demolished.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Travelodge by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/14124272543\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7388\/14124272543_c66fdf6bf1_c.jpg\" alt=\"Travelodge\" width=\"640\" height=\"638\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Westfield development has the potential, if people use it, to help nearby businesses boom. I don&#8217;t know what the plans are for The Ring O Bells but it could be a gold mine.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Ring O Bells by Paul M, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pmarfell\/13917561609\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7436\/13917561609_0cec81866a_c.jpg\" alt=\"The Ring O Bells\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a bit of time in Bradford yesterday playing Ingress but of course had my camera with me. I went down to City Park when it was getting a bit quieter and took this slightly different view of the pool. It is nice to see that the Westfield site is now being worked on. 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