Strong winds did more than rattle a few windows in Bradford over the weekend, as a shed was thrown ten feet onto a garage in Barkerend and a Heaton family’s trampoline was sent flying across two gardens.

The shed was ripped from the ground in Maudsley Street at 10.15pm on Friday and ended up on top of a neighbour’s garage roof. The only thing preventing it toppling into the street was a satellite dish on a nearby side wall.

The shed’s owner, who would not be named, said she had opened her house door to get some fresh air when she saw the shed lift half-way off the ground.

Fire crews and police were there within minutes, said the woman.

Meanwhile, residents of Brantwood Oval in Heaton, Bradford, awoke to a bizarre sight on Saturday.

The winds had caused havoc with fences and flower pots along the quiet street but the strangest sight was was a 12ft trampoline which had flipped over one garden, two garages and narrowly missed a conservatory.

The trampoline, which requires five people to carry it, acted like a sail.

Coral Chitty, the stunned owner, said: “It’s a really heavy thing and for it to have just been tossed like that is frightening. Apparently it was hanging over the neighbours’ cars.”

Isma Arif, whose garden it landed in, said: “It knocked a bit off the garage but it could have been a lot worse. I’m just glad no-one was hurt.”

Otherwise the winds seem to have left the district relatively unscathed, with no serious injuries reported. Fire crews were busy throughout the area during the evening, but only dealing with calls involving removing debris.

In Laisterdyke, gusts ripped up a bolted-down corrugated shed and dumped it on to a neighbour’s garage roof in Upper Seymour Street, while a plank from scaffolding fell on to an empty car in Shipley’s Westgate, smashing the windscreen. A 14ft metal fence which had blown out of a scrap yard across a footpath near Guiseley Football Club also had to be moved to a safer place.

Some residents struggled to get to their homes in Ben Rhydding Drive after a tree fell across the cul-de-sac and the access to Otley Police Station was blocked after a tree fell on a car.