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Section 1

1. Barbara’s mother, Freda Walker, a nurse at Ripon Fever Hospital in 1922. (Bradford Photo Archive)

2. Freda in her early twenties with Tony Ellwood, the child she brought up in Armley, Leeds, before marrying Winston Taylor. (Bradford Photo Archive)

3. Winston Taylor, Barbara’s father as a boy of sixteen in the Royal Navy. (Bradford Photo Archive)

4. Winston’s sister, Laura, the model for Laura Spencer in A Woman of Substance. (Bradford Photo Archive)

5. Map of Armley, dated 1933, the year Barbara was born.

6. Barbara’s parents, Winston and Freda Taylor in 1929, the year they were married. (Bradford Photo Archive)

7. Barbara at two years, walking in Gott’s Park, Armley. (Bradford Photo Archive)

8. Tower Lane, Armley, site of Barbara’s first home.

9. No. 38 Tower Lane as it is today.

10. The Towers, the gothic row of mansions in Tower Lane, one of which became Emma Harte’s home in A Woman of Substance.

11. Armley Christ Church School, which Barbara attended with playwright Alan Bennett.

12. Freda and daughter Barbara – ‘the kind of little girl who always looked ironed from top to toe’. (Bradford Photo Archive)

13. Barbara aged three. (Bradford Photo Archive)

14. Christ Church Armley, where Barbara was baptised and received her first Communion.

15. Barbara as a fairy in a Sunday School pantomime. (Bradford Photo Archive)

16. Barbara with bucket and spade, aged five on holiday at Bridlington. (Bradford Photo Archive)

17 and 18. Leeds Market, where Marks & Spencer began and the food halls in Emma Harte’s flag-ship store in A Woman of Substance were inspired. (Yorkshire Post and Leeds Library)

19. Top Withens, the setting for Wuthering Heights. (Yorkshire Tourist Board)

20. ‘The roofless halls and ghostly chambers’ of Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire. (Skyscan Balloon Photography, English Heritage)

Section 2

21. 1909 Map of Ripon, when Barbara’s mother, Freda, was five.

22. Ripon Minster. (Ripon Library)

23. Ripon Market Place as Freda and her mother, Edith, knew it. (Ripon Library)

24. The Wakeman Hornblower, who still announces the watch each night at 9 p.m. (Ripon Library)

25. Water Skellgate in 1904, the year that Edith Walker gave birth there to Freda. (Ripon Library)

26. The stepping stones on the Skell where Freda fell. (Ripon Library)

27. One of Ripon’s ancient courts, like the one where Freda was born.

28. Freda dressed in her best at fourteen. (Bradford Photo Archive)

29. Studley Royal Hall, home of the Marquesses of Ripon. (Ripon Library)

30. Fountains Hall, on which Pennistone Royal in the Emma Harte novels is based. (Ripon Library)

31. Edith Walker, Barbara’s maternal grandmother. (Bradford Photo Archive)

32. Frederick Oliver Robinson of Studley Royal, Second Marquess of Ripon. (Ripon Library)

33. Ripon Union Workhouse, known as the Grubber in Edith’s day.

Section 3

34 and 35. The offices of The Yorkshire Evening Post, where Barbara worked from fifteen. (Yorkshire Post)

36. Barbara as YEP Woman’s Page Assistant at seventeen. (Bradford Photo Archive)

37. Barbara at nineteen, as Woman’s Page Editor. (Bradford Photo Archive)

38. Barbara’s sometime colleague, Keith Waterhouse, the celebrated commentator, playwright and author, with his collaborator, playwright Willis Hall. (Yorkshire Post)

39. Barbara in 1953, aged twenty, when she left Leeds for London to work as a Fashion Editor on Woman’s Own. (Bradford Photo Archive)

40. Peter O’Toole with Omar Sharif in Lawrence of Arabia. (Columbia Pictures)

41. Barbara’s husband, film producer Robert Bradford. (Bradford Photo Archive)

42. Barbara after her uprooting to New York. (Cris Alexander/Bradford Photo Archive)

43. Barbara’s mother, Freda Taylor, a long way from home on Fifth Avenue, New York.

44. Barbara, the writer. (Bradford Photo Archive)

45. Barbara, multi-million-selling author of A Woman of Substance. (Cris Alexander/Bradford Photo Archive)

Section 4

46. Robert Bradford with the book that realised a dream. (Bradford Photo Archive).

47. Jenny Seagrove as Emma Harte, the woman of substance. (Bradford Photo Archive)

48. Deborah Kerr takes over as the older Emma, with Sir John Mills as Henry Rossiter, Emma’s financial adviser. (Bradford Photo Archive)

49. Stars of To Be the Best, Lindsay Wagner and Sir Anthony Hopkins. (Bradford Photo Archive)

50. Barbara with the stars of To Be the Best, Fiona Fullerton, Lindsay Wagner, Christopher Cazenove and Sir Anthony Hopkins (Bradford Photo Archive)

51. Victoria Tenant as Audra Crowther and Kevin McNally as Vincent Crowther in Act of Will. (Odyssey Video from the DVD release Act of Will)

52. Barbara’s bichons frises, Beaji and Chammi. (Bradford Photo Archive)

53. Alan Bennett and Barbara receiving the degree of Doctor of Letters from Leeds University in 1990. (Yorkshire Post)

54. Barbara with Reg Carr, sometime Keeper of the Barbara Taylor Bradford archive at the Brotherton Library in Leeds. (Bradford Photo Archive)

55. Barbara Taylor Bradford by Lord Lichfield. (Bradford Photo Archive)