FIFTY years of Bradford’s industrial museum was celebrated at the weekend. 

Bradford Council says it was the first local authority in Britain to create a museum celebrating the history and culture of a city’s industry and workers.

Following the Industrial Revolution which began in the 18th century, Bradford was at the heart of Yorkshire’s woollen textile industry.  

Across the Pennines, Lancashire’s towns and cities were dominated by the cotton textile industry.

Among the weekend’s activities at the Bradford Industrial Museum were demonstrations of early printing methods, including a flatbed printing press by volunteer printer Richard Ingham.

German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436.

The anniversary of the museum’s opening was part of English Heritage’s annual programme of open days, which it says is the country’s “largest community-led festival of history and culture.”