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Grandad’s Clock and Chair

Bradford, England

'Grandad’s Clock and Chair'

A comfortable-looking armchair and a grandfather clock have been sitting on this sidewalk for the last 30 years.

Undercliffe Cemetery.

Bradford, England

Undercliffe Cemetery

A Victorian-era cemetery serves as a window into the city of Bradford’s past.

Wool combing, carding and drawing machines

Bradford, England

Bradford Industrial Museum

A remarkable collection of the machines which this industrial city was dependent upon for both commerce and domestic life.

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Cottingley Beck

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

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The two cablecars.

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Shipley Glen Tramway

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

3 miles from Bradford

The ruins in the wood.

Bingley, England

Milner Field Ruins

A lavish Victorian mansion wound up inheriting a gruesome reputation that would be its demise.

4 miles from Bradford

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Oakwell Hall

A museum in the form of Elizabethan house dressed as its 17th century iteration was used as sets for the 2009 Wuthering Heights TV series and as the home of the leader of the Gupowder Plot.

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