I live in Leeds- about 20 mins from Bradford. The media museum is fantastic, and well worth a visit- as is Bradford- also worth visiting are the Fighting Cock (possibly the best pub on earth), the Beehive (a victorian gaslit pub) and some of the innumerable, amazing curry houses.
Last time I was at the NMM there they had the lives of the great photographers exhibition- seeing original prints of the work of Julia Margret Cameron, Fox Talbot, HCB, Weegee, Steiglitz etc all in the same room for free was a near religious experience. They also have the Kodak gallery downstairs- which does the narritive of the development of photographic tech rather well.
Recommended.