A DVD captures life in Bradford - including mill work, Wakes Week trips and bargain-hunting in Kirkgate Market - over the past 120 years.

Bradford on Film draws from the Yorkshire Film Archive’s remarkable moving image collections. Starting with black and white flickering images of Town Hall Square in 1896, it follows a century of Bradford life - days out to Shipley Glen, Haworth and Saltaire, the city's resilience during the Second World War, VE Day celebrations, working life, rugby and motorcycling at Odsal, life on newly-built council estates, trips to Blackpool, 80s nightclubbing at Blue Lace and enjoying a late evening curry.

The DVD includes rare images of the city festooned in bunting for the 1935 Silver Jubilee, shopping at Kirkgate Market in the 1950s and hopping on the trolleybus home, University of Bradford students in the 1960s, the vibrancy of the Mela, and fans on rugby and football terraces.

Narrated by Bradfordian Christa Ackroyd, Bradford on Film is described as "a fascinating portrait of this diverse city and its people". From the work of amateur enthusiasts to footage from regional television companies, it tells the story of life in and around the city over the decades; people, places, major events and everyday working lives, all on films preserved, catalogued and digitised by the Yorkshire Film Archive.

Selected from collection of archive films, the DVD was screened at Bradford Cathedral last month as part of its centenary celebrations. It traces the city from 1896-1998, featuring local characters like Mohamed Fazal Hussain, known as ‘The Godfather' to Bradford's early Muslim community, and footage from 1986 Yorkshire Television documentary Bradford City - A Year of Healing about the aftermath of the Valley Parade fire.

Sue Howard, director of the Yorkshire Film Archive, said: “What's fantastic about these collections is that whenever we give screenings or presentations people immediately connect with the films, because they recognise the places they grew up in, went to work, the shops, streets and often the people captured on film and before you know it, the stories start to flow. Following many popular screenings in the city over the years, this is our chance to respond to the question that's always asked: ‘Where can we get this on DVD?’ Here it is, Bradford on Film!”

All profits from the sale of the DVD go into the charity's work preserving the local film heritage.

* Bradford on Film’ can be purchased, priced £12, from yorkshirefilmarchive.com. Copies are also available at Bradford Industrial Museum, Bolling Hall, Bradford and Ilkley Visitor Information Centres.