Christmas shopping trip, in Bradford

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Only just spotted these Dana. Lovely pictures.

A friend of mine was at Bradford Uni and I went to see him quite a few times. Where it's not been knocked down & rebuilt it's a handsome city. It was the first place I ever had a real curry (sitting on a bench, in front of a formica table, with chapati instead of cutlery - blew my mind).

I love the Museum of the Moving Image (title may be wrong, might be thinking of the one in Waterloo). I made travel plans when I was a bit drunk one time and ended up in the city centre with about 5 hours to kill. Most of it was spent in there, the rest in a pub when I realised the drink was approx half the cost that it was down south (although now, being in the Midlands I assume it's catching up like everything else).

One year I spent Christmas there, and as I walked to the coach station to go home it started snowing. Within about 5 minutes it started to come down really heavily and settle on all the pavements. I was caught between childish wonderment and tears of self pity. It was about a mile uphill to the coach station - I'd told my friend to stay in bed - and I was frozen, soaked, virtually blind (I wore glasses in those days and they steamed up within seconds) and skidding all over the place.

Needless to say, once I got there (45 mins early as ever) and got a polysterene cup of tea in my poor pink hands the wonderment took over. I seem to remember the snow stopped about 20 miles outside of Bradford and I haven't seen any that thick in the ?10? 15? years since!