Video: Memories in store as Yorkshire's shopping heydey recalled

Shoppers were swept back in time when part of a renowned former department store was transformed into a pop-up shop from a bygone era.

For one weekend only, starting yesterday, part of the former Brown, Muff and Co department store in Bradford, has been turned into a 1930s grocer's store, giving people chance to travel back in time and experience living history.

The store is part of a BBC Learning Hands on History project which ties in with a TV series.

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Bradford's pop-up shop is one of 11 created around the UK, giving people chance to learn more about their local history. Visitors can touch, hear and even smell what life was like on their local high street around 80 years ago, as well as share their own memories, photographs and mementoes.

With the help of Bradford Council and local libraries, museums and archives, the BBC Learning team aims to explore the history of other shops in Bradford using documents such as posters, adverts, photographs and letters, all helping to create a high street timeline.

Members of the public can also help to create a photographic Now and Then archive of their area with the project's dedicated Flickr group or download a guide to researching the history of their high street from the internet.

The shops are part of the BBC One series Turn Back Time – The High Street which takes four empty shops back to the 1870s and propels them through 100 years of change.