Children run alongside a Bradford street entertainer with a barrel organ; a mobile advertisement for the 'Public Benefit Boot and Shoe Company' pulls up outside a cemetery; a little boy looks up in awe at a travelling cutler (knife sharpener) on a Bradford street; Edwardian day-trippers enjoy a stroll alongside Bingley's Five Rise Locks; a group of men in bowler hats and impressive moustaches prepare to carve at an ox roast in Town Gate, Idle, and Pudsey Park is packed with families, children crammed onto a roundabout.

His latest travel guide, Victorian and Edwardian Bradford, features 50 photographs taken across the district, owned by his Keasbury-Gordon Photograph Archive, combined with text relating to places such as Bradford, Bingley, Saltaire and Pudsey from Black's Guide first published in 1888.Fashioning Feathers includes this image from a pamphlet titled “Feathered Women” in which the president of the society calls them a “bird-enemy": Virginia Woolf went for the jugular, pointing out that—even though the image shows a woman swooping down to kill a bird—it was largely men who did the dirty work of murder and they were also the ones profiting from the industry.Ironically, middle-class women were at the forefront of the bird preservation movement.Using text from Victorian guide books, Andrew Gill has created a series of booklets bringing to life our towns and cities as they more than 100 years ago.As well as the original text, he includes images taken from original Victorian and Edwardian photographs, mostly glass 'magic lantern' projection slides, which he has collected for more than 40 years.There are suggestions of various places to visit, including "the Art Gallery and Museum, Darley Street (1879) and the Mechanics Institute, rebuilt 1871". "Bowling, a mile-and-a-half to the south of Bradford, was the headquarters of the Earl of Newcastle during the siege of Bradford." "Calverley was the scene of The Yorkshire Tragedy, a play which has been attributed to Shakespeare." The images offer intriguing snapshots of daily life in the district.The guide continues: "Near Baildon, one-and-a-half miles from Shipley by rail, is Baildon Hill, a remarkable elevation overlooking the Aire. Policemen take charge at a tram accident in Bradford; crowds gather at the 'Legrams mill disaster' on September 25, 1908; two girls in Edwardian hats stand at a lamp post on Manningham Lane, as a tram goes by; and a rather serious-looking group of people gather outside Eastbrook Hall for a Bradford Wesleyan Mission procession.Your amazing contributions to the Moments in Time photo series have really blown us away here Archives Outside.In fact, it became our most successful series on the blog after just the second post!Buzz Feed has a collection of vintage hats featuring birds; here are some of the ones that were most stunning to me: At the time, not many people thought much of killing the birds.Europeans and their American cousins “didn’t believe they could put a dent in an animal’s population.” Birds seemed to be an “abundant, even inexhaustible” natural resource. Millions of birds all over the world were harvested for hat makers for years.Many images in our collection have come to us with only the barest of details attached.Your knowledge, interest and enjoyment in identifying dates and locations is helping us to fill in some of the blanks and, in turn, provide better access to the State’s archives.You have used such a variety of methods in dating the featured photos that we thought you’d like to share them in one place and help out those who are new to the ‘craft’.For instance, do you date photos from: the clothing people are wearing; the cars you see; the progress of building construction; the appearance of telegraph poles; an historic event…or something unusual?