Crowds flocked to appeal to enrol in the #WW1 forces #OTD 110yrs ago. Cheerful images of life at the front followed & then the truth about the toll on life, affecting most homes, even mine in #Saltaire.

#Saltaire #FilmSet A new look for the entrance to Salts Mill & you’d be forgiven for thinking these two local characters had got in on the act. Alan Bennett’s “The Choral” starring Ralph Fiennes in the 1st UNESCO City of Film & its #WorldHeritageSite.

Perhaps the #Saltaire World Heritage Officer, who protects & promotes our #WorldHeritageSite will ask the Council to review planning permission for the new build on the site of the demolished Sunday School, opposed by UNESCO for its “highly adverse” impact on the village.

Replacement street furniture in #Saltaire UNESCO World Heritage Site, as inauthentic as the UPVC windows, concrete paving & new builds. Meanwhile some #Rewilding on the old Shipley to Bramley turnpike, the A657.
#ThenAndNow

As the #CityOfCulture2025 approaches a reminder of artist Jack Townend of Bingley Grammar & Bradford School of Art, 1918 - 2005. Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the influence of where he came from is seen in his work. A 1st edition of his book “Ben” is for sale $300