Twenty-five years ago, the BBC asked people in Bradford and throughout the country to submit articles and photographs about their local area to be stored in an electronic time capsule.

An estimated one million people took part in what became known as the Domesday Reloaded project.

The country was divided into 23,000 Domesday Squares or D Blocks, accessible online by inputting the name of an area and a postcode.

The results can now be seen on a dedicated BBC website. It is also possible to update photographs and observations.

More than 147,819 single page articles and 23,225 photographs were sent in, including many from the Bradford District. They form an electronic library of words and images of ordinary life in 1986.

All the entries are anonymous. One for Bradford declares: “In 1984 more than 30,000 people came to Bradford for a holiday… Such famous events as the World Speedway Finals and the National Breakdown Car Rally are held in Bradford.”

Not any more. Even though Bradford Dukes topped speedway’s Elite league, in 1997 speedway screeched to a halt at Odsal Stadium because of uncertainty over the future of the stadium.

Bob Slicer’s Bradford-based National Breakdown Recovery company was formed in 1970. In 1994 it became Green Flag. Mr Slicer, a former fish fryer, died last year.

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Click here to go to the BBC Domesday website.