I love this place and go out of my way to go there. An…read moreAlladdins cave of treasures from shoes to fabrics..kitchen ware to religious icons..suits to saris.Balti trays and cooking utensils are very reasonably priced compared to any cook shop. This store is massive! It packs a lot of stuff all under one roof! Lovely sari fabrics from around £15.99. I often buy the plain white silk ones for £15 and cut into smaller pieces and dye for other things.Ornate saris make wonderful furnishing fabrics too. A great selection of haberdashery..lovely ribbons and trims. A bargain bin with short pieces of amazing fabrics at about 8 pieces a £1. Some stunning jewellery as well and indian cosmetics and hennabindis, henna tattoos and I also stock up on incense. The huge emporium is a gleaming bazaar with rolls of silks in every possible shade. Racks of spangled shoes and sandals seem to come straight from Bollywood. Yet there are also racks of little girls' organdie dresses like those worn by Shirley Temple in the 1930s. Indeed, something about Bombay Stores is very comforting for English people: it is as if time has stood still. For the Asian community is a taste of home. There is order and calm, no pressure selling and plenty of space to wander from the boutique, selling Bollywood pop hits and videos, to the cafe, en route to the fabrics, suits and shoes. I always keep carrying armfuls of stuff to the checkout but now they have also devised a new idea. In fact there's so much that the only way to shop for larger goods is to browse the store and pick up tickets for each item that you want to purchase, and when you're done you go to the checkout, give in your tickets and all your items will be ready to pay for and collect. I bought a huge, thick fleecy throw for about £20 and everyone wants to steal itit is so soft and luxurious! The brains behind Bombay Stores is 68-year-old Abdul Kader, who came to Britain in 1957. He knew nobody, and started with nothing, but there were jobs. He worked on the London buses and in the Bradford mills. By 1963 he had bought his first business, a former fish and chip shop. His capital was only £100 and his wife, Maryam, worked long hours in the shop making dresses while he drove buses on a double shift to pay for the enterprise. He expanded to the present premises in Shearbridge Road in 1983. Today, annual turnover is £10m and he employs 70 workers. Very efficient and helpful service. They have a cafe for wonderful samosas, coffee and good western style kids meals too. Bombay Stores in Bradford not only sells fabrics that attract customers from all over the world, it also brings together a multicultural community. It is the UK's largest Asian department store. They have a web site with a small online catalogue and various department goods. Opening times: Mon to Fri 10:00am till 07:30pm Sat 10:00am till 08:00pm Sun 12:00pm till 06:00pm

A great place to find interesting and colourful fabric/trims, Bombay stores has stacks of the…read morestuff. The wide range offers everything from simple plain white cotton to the most heavily embellished and luxurious satins perfect for wedding dresses. They have a dedicated bridal section and I believe they do custom made wedding dresses these do not come cheap but you get what you pay for. The extensive trims section offers glittering diamantes and a fantastic selection of buttons. They really do have everything you need at Bombay stores. The only thing that does start to get irritating after a while is the music as Bollywood tunes really aren't my thing but it's an INdian store so it fits well with the shop.

I'm normally a proper advocate (not advocaat, that's different) for T K Maxx, but this one, in the…read moreForster Square complex in Bradford, is so messy and disorganised and rammed that I had to leave within five minutes because I thought I would have a panic attack. It was just like Primark in Leeds all over again. Not pleasant.

I like this TK Maxx - as someone who travels round and visits them all, this is one of the better…read moreones if you're looking for a real bargain! For some reason, TK Maxx in Bradford always seem to have things in stock that you don't find in other stores. I remember finding a rare Lulu Guinness handbag there reduced to £13, and a fab Duchamp waistcoat that I haven't seen anywhere else. It is a bit messy inside, but it is a large store and there's plenty of stuff to look through if you've got the time. Watch out for the wobbly floor upstairs - you sometimes think that the vibrations are going to bounce all the glasswares off the shelves!

This used to be a really good outdoor shopping village but seems to have gone downhill over the…read morelast few years. This used to have a nice mix of ethnic and engish stores and you had a realy good choice of things to buy, but, now it focuses more on ethnic goods and thus there isnt really much for me to buy there anymore as i dont go in for all the spices and curry food that it sells. The village has many market type stalls set out in the grounds and there is also a few stalls inside too - there is a second hand flea market type of stall inside with all sorts of second hand furniture and books, ornaments, bric a brac, etc. There is also a small pet shop inside which doesnt do many live animals but does cater for pet care and treatment with a good stock. There are loads of ethnic clothing stalls and ethnic food stalls so if that is your taste there are some good bargains to be had as this is a really cheap market. There is also a butcher who sells out of refrigerated wagon who haggles people with his prices which gives it an auction type of feel. I love listening to him say 'ill give you 2 pieces for a fiver or even 3 pieces for a fiver - any takers' and everyone waves their fivers about thinking they are getting a bargain - i wouldnt dare buy meat like that. Ok for bargains but hard to walk round as gets very muddy and the ground isnt even and is very hilly in places so it isnt appropriate for wheelchair users and prams.

What a place, came up to Bradford and heard of Cannon Mills as being the go to market…read more Having been to the market Town of Skipton this was surely different. WOW.. They had a massive collection of stalls focusing on everything from textiles to cookware and the prices are all negotiable.. It was like being in morocco again !! ... It's worth mentioning the fellas outside market 2 who run a bedding and pots and pan store where I seemed to spend at least 30 mins... The prices where very good and the customer service brilliant... Any size and colour fitted bed sheets 2 for £5.. Bargain . To mention further the street food on offer was equally as good.. Will definitely be back

Marks and Spencer's presence in Bradford is a real coup for the city, it's a great store to have in…read moreThe Broadway Shopping Centre in Bradford, of which it is an anchor tenant. Facilities inside the store include a Cafe, toilets, as well as a selection of Home products. The store looked fairly nice/modern, and the staff seemed friendly enough. I was pretty disappointed with the Food Hall selection, there was a large number of items that were either out of stock, or just not stocked here, and I ended up leaving unable to purchase what I would have liked and had to make a trip at a different store on my way home. A useful part of the store is the direct access to the mall's car park, meaning you can walk straight in and out of the store, without having to go through the rest of the mall, meaning it's easier to get your items to the car without having to carry heavy shopping throughout the shopping centre. 3* - A great brand and the store looks pleasant, they do need to work on the selection in the Food Hall though.

Dont be fooled from the outside- the Marks and Spencers at Bradford is surprisingly large. There is…read morea huge selection of food on the bottom floor (where the food hall is), and you can find anything from pre-cooked meals to raw meat. There is usually some kind of promotion, so watch out for those! However, I have to agree with mumtothree that the selection of fashion choices in the shop is not the best. The clothes tend to be for more mature women.

Kirkgate Shopping Centre has become something of a dead duck in Bradford city centre, ever since…read moreThe Broadway opened, it seemed more and more shops have relocated from here to the new mall (and who could blame them), sadly that means walking around Kirkgate Shopping Centre now is depressing, a run-down mall with empty units left, right and centre, and virtually no atmosphere. I'm not surprised to hear talks about this place being demolished. I got into the shopping centre from the escalators, opposite McDonald's, the first thing you could see is the giant Primark and pretty much nothing else. Not much going on inside - lack of mall staff/guides for shops that still exist here. A small number of units remain, including Primark and Sports Direct, both useful and many smaller/discount stores. 2* - Not worth going out of your way to visit, unless you specifically need one of the stores, certainly would be better to move the existing stores into the newer mall and use this space for something else.

I had a bad experience here yesterday. First, my shoelace came undone and it was too busy for me to…read morestop anywhere and do it up so I had to walk dead stupid because my right shoe was falling off. I don't normally wear shoes I have to lace up, which was probably the issue really, cos I'd just bought some converse hi-tops and wanted to wear them in a bit and had forgotten that double knots are the way forward. Anyhoo. Then I needed to pee. And finding the toilets was such a saga, with signs telling me to go upstairs (which I did), then to follow the concourse all the way round (which I did), and then queue up at the parking machines (which I did), and then get in a lift. At this point I got so confused and didn't believe that I had to come up an escalator and then get in a lift and so I ended up finding new toilets in the Kirkgate Market bit, which weren't very nice because they smelled of poop. I don't remember much else about Kirkgate Shopping Centre other than that it has an Argos and a Primark in it.