THE National Science and Media Museum has unveiled plans to re-open this spring - and a new permanent feature will re-create a popular Bradford photographic studio. The museum opens on May 19 with a new programme that includes the Belle Vue Studio exhibition in the Kodak Gallery. The photographic studio, on Manningham Lane, was widely used by people from the South Asian sub-continent, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe, who came to live and work in Bradford. The formal portraits, all taken on the same Victorian glass-plate camera, and often featuring props such as a a watch or briefcase, were sent to families around the world.
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