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Bradford

January 03, 2023

This article is about the city. For the metropolitan borough, see City of Bradford. For other uses, see Bradford (disambiguation).

Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire, England. The city is in the Pennines' eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck. Bradford had a population of 349,561 at the 2011 census; the second-largest population centre in the county after Leeds, which is 9 miles (14 km) to the east of the city. It shares a continuous built-up area with the towns of Shipley, Silsden, Bingley and Keighley in the district as well as with the metropolitan county's other districts. Its name is also given to Bradford Beck.

Bradford
City

Clockwise from top left: Bradford Wool Exchange, City Hall, St George's Hall, Cartwright Hall, Market Street with Wool Exchange, Skyline, Manningham Mills and Cathedral.

Coat of arms of Bradford
Bradford
Location within West Yorkshire
Area81.74 sq mi (211.7 km2)
Population366,187 [1]
• Density4,480/sq mi (1,730/km2)
DemonymBradfordian[2]
OS grid referenceSE163329
• London174 mi (280 km) S
Metropolitan borough
Metropolitan county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Areas of the city
(2011 census BUASD)
List
Post townBRADFORD
Postcode districtBD1-BD15
Dialling code01274
PoliceWest Yorkshire
FireWest Yorkshire
AmbulanceYorkshire
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
53°48′N 1°45′W / 53.800°N 1.750°W / 53.800; -1.750Coordinates: 53°48′N 1°45′W / 53.800°N 1.750°W / 53.800; -1.750

It became a West Riding of Yorkshire municipal borough in 1847 and received its city charter in 1897. Since local government reform in 1974, the city is the administrative centre of a wider metropolitan district, city hall is the meeting place of Bradford City Council. The district has civil parishes and unparished areas and had a population of 546,412, making it the 7th most populous district in England.

In the century leading up its city status, the 19th century, it was boomtown in international textile manufacture. It was one of the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world"; this in turn gave rise to the nicknames "Woolopolis" and "Wool City".[3] The area's access to supplies of coal, iron ore and soft water set off the growth of manufacturing which led to an explosion in population. From the mid-20th century, deindustrialisation lead to the textile sector and industrial base to decline (including poverty, unemployment and social unrest). The city's economy is the third largest in the Yorkshire and the Humber region, at around £10 billion, based on finance and manufacturing.

Tourism and media is also a part of the economy: it was the first UNESCO City of Film with attractions such as the National Science and Media Museum, Bradford City Park, the Alhambra theatre and Cartwright Hall. It is the UK City of Culture for 2025 having won the designation on 31 May 2022.[4]

History

See also: Timeline of Bradford

Toponymy

The name Bradford is derived from the Old English brad and ford the broad ford which referred to a crossing of the Bradford Beck at Church Bank below the site of Bradford Cathedral, around which a settlement grew in Anglo-Saxon times.[5] It was recorded as "Bradeford" in 1086.[6]

Early history

After an uprising in 1070, during William the Conqueror's Harrying of the North, the manor of Bradford was laid waste,[5] and is described as such in the Domesday Book of 1086. It then became part of the Honour of Pontefract given to Ilbert de Lacy for service to the Conqueror, in whose family the manor remained until 1311.[5] There is evidence of a castle in the time of the Lacys.[7] The manor then passed to the Earl of Lincoln, John of Gaunt, The Crown and, ultimately, private ownership in 1620.[5]

By the middle ages Bradford, had become a small town centred on Kirkgate, Westgate and Ivegate.[5][8] In 1316 there is mention of a fulling mill, a soke mill where all the manor corn was milled and a market. During the Wars of the Roses the inhabitants sided with House of Lancaster. Edward IV granted the right to hold two annual fairs and from this time the town began to prosper. In the reign of Henry VIII Bradford exceeded Leeds as a manufacturing centre.[7] Bradford grew slowly over the next two-hundred years as the woollen trade gained in prominence.

During the Civil War the town was garrisoned for the Parliamentarians and in 1642 was unsuccessfully attacked by Royalist forces from Leeds. Sir Thomas Fairfax took the command of the garrison and marched to meet the Duke of Newcastle but was defeated. The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender.[7] The Civil War caused a decline in industry but after the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 prosperity began to return.[5] The launch of manufacturing in the early 18th century marked the start of the town's development while new canal and turnpike road links encouraged trade.

Industrial Revolution

 
Bradford Boundaries 1835.

In 1801, Bradford was a rural market town of 6,393 people,[9] where wool spinning and cloth weaving was carried out in local cottages and farms. Bradford was thus not much bigger than nearby Keighley (5,745) and was significantly smaller than Halifax (8,866) and Huddersfield (7,268).[9] This small town acted as a hub for three nearby townships – Manningham, Bowling and Great and Little Horton, which were separated from the town by countryside.[9]

Blast furnaces were established in about 1788 by Hird, Dawson Hardy at Low Moor and iron was worked by the Bowling Iron Company until about 1900. Yorkshire iron was used for shackles, hooks and piston rods for locomotives, colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required. The Low Moor Company also made pig iron and the company employed 1,500 men in 1929.[10] when the municipal borough of Bradford was created in 1847 there were 46 coal mines within its boundaries. Coal output continued to expand, reaching a peak in 1868 when Bradford contributed a quarter of all the coal and iron produced in Yorkshire.[11]

The population of the township in 1841 was 34,560.[12]

In 1825 the wool-combers union called a strike that lasted five-months but workers were forced to return to work through hardship leading to the introduction of machine-combing.[13] This Industrial Revolution led to rapid growth, with wool imported in vast quantities for the manufacture of worsted cloth in which Bradford specialised, and the town soon became known as the wool capital of the world.[14]

A permanent military presence was established in the city with the completion of Bradford Moor Barracks in 1844.[15]

 
Bradford waterworks on completion of the Wharfedale scheme in 1881

Bradford had ample supplies of locally mined coal to provide the power that the industry needed. Local sandstone was an excellent resource for building the mills, and with a population of 182,000 by 1850,[16] the town grew rapidly as workers were attracted by jobs in the textile mills.[14] A desperate shortage of water in Bradford Dale was a serious limitation on industrial expansion and improvement in urban sanitary conditions. In 1854 Bradford Corporation bought the Bradford Water Company[17] and embarked on a huge engineering programme to bring supplies of soft water from Airedale, Wharfedale and Nidderdale.[18] By 1882 water supply had radically improved. Meanwhile, urban expansion took place along the routes out of the city towards the Hortons and Bowling and the townships had become part of a continuous urban area by the late 19th century.[8]

A major employer was Titus Salt who in 1833 took over the running of his father's woollen business specialising in fabrics combining alpaca, mohair, cotton and silk. By 1850 he had five mills. However, because of the polluted environment and squalid conditions for his workers Salt left Bradford and transferred his business to Salts Mill in Saltaire in 1850, where in 1853 he began to build the workers' village which has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site.[19]

Henry Ripley was a younger contemporary of Titus Salt. He was managing partner of Edward Ripley & Son Ltd, which owned the Bowling Dye Works. In 1880 the dye works employed over 1000 people and was said to be the biggest dye works in Europe. Like Salt he was a councillor, JP and Bradford MP who was deeply concerned to improve working class housing conditions. He built the industrial Model village of Ripley Ville on a site in Broomfields, East Bowling close to the dye works.

Other major employers were Samuel Lister and his brother who were worsted spinners and manufacturers at Lister's Mill (Manningham Mills). Lister epitomised Victorian enterprise but it has been suggested that his capitalist attitude made trade unions necessary.[20] Unprecedented growth created problems with over 200 factory chimneys continually churning out black, sulphurous smoke, Bradford gained the reputation of being the most polluted town in England. There were frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid, and only 30% of children born to textile workers reached the age of fifteen. This extreme level of infant and youth mortality contributed to a life expectancy for Bradford residents of just over eighteen years, which was one of the lowest in the country.

Like many major cities Bradford has been a destination for immigrants. In the 1840s Bradford's population was significantly increased by migrants from Ireland, particularly rural Mayo[21] and Sligo, and by 1851 about 10% of the population were born in Ireland, the largest proportion in Yorkshire.[22] Around[23] the middle decades of the 19th century the Irish were concentrated in eight densely settled areas situated near the town centre. One of these was the Bedford Street area of Broomfields which in 1861 contained 1,162 persons of Irish birth—19% of all Irish born persons in the Borough.[24]

During the 1820s and 1830s, there was immigration from Germany. Many were Jewish merchants and they became active in the life of the town. The Jewish community mostly living in the Manningham area of the town,[25] numbered about 100 families but was influential in the development of Bradford as a major exporter of woollen goods from their textile export houses predominately based in Little Germany and the civic life of Bradford. Charles Semon (1814–1877) was a textile merchant and philanthropist who developed a productive textile export house in the town, he became the first foreign and Jewish mayor of Bradford in 1864.[26] Jacob Behrens (1806–1889) was the first foreign textile merchant to export woollen goods from the town, his company developed into an international multimillion-pound business.[27] Behrens was a philanthropist, he also helped to establish the Bradford chamber of commerce in 1851.[28] Jacob Moser (1839 – 1922) was a textile merchant who was a partner in the firm Edelstein, Moser and Co, which developed into a successful Bradford textile export house. Moser was a philanthropist, he founded the Bradford Charity Organisation Society and the City Guild of Help. In 1910 Moser became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Bradford.[29]

 
Jowett Cars Eight badge

To support the textile mills, a large manufacturing base grew up in the town providing textile machinery, and this led to diversification with different industries thriving side by side.[14] The Jowett Motor Company founded in the early 20th century by Benjamin and William Jowett and Arthur V Lamb, manufactured cars and vans in Bradford for 50 years.[30] The Scott Motorcycle Company was a well known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry. Founded by Alfred Angas Scott in 1908 as the Scott Engineering Company in Bradford, Scott motorcycles were produced until 1978.

Independent Labour Party

The city played an important part in the early history of the Labour Party. A mural on the back of the Bradford Playhouse in Little Germany commemorates the centenary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in Bradford in 1893.[31]

The Bradford Pals

 
Regimental colours

The Bradford Pals were three First World War Pals battalions of Kitchener's Army raised in the city. When the three battalions were taken over by the British Army they were officially named the 16th (1st Bradford), 18th (2nd Bradford), and 20th (Reserve) Battalions, The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment).[32]

On the morning of 1 July 1916, the 16th and 18th Battalions left their trenches in Northern France to advance across no man's land. It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Of the estimated 1,394 men from Bradford and District in the two battalions, 1,060 were either killed or injured during the ill-fated attack on the village of Serre-lès-Puisieux.[33]

Other Bradford Battalions of The Prince of Wales's Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) involved in the Battle of the Somme were the 1st/6th Battalion (the former Bradford Rifle Volunteers), part of the Territorial Force, based at Belle Vue Barracks in Manningham, and the 10th Battalion (another Kitchener battalion).[34][35] The 1/6th Battalion first saw action in 1915 at the Battle of Aubers Ridge before moving north to the Yser Canal near Ypres. On the first day of the Somme they took heavy casualties while trying to support the 36th (Ulster) Division.[36][37] The 10th Battalion was involved in the attack on Fricourt, where it suffered the highest casualty rate of any battalion on the Somme on 1 July and perhaps the highest battalion casualty list for a single day during the entire war. Nearly 60% of the battalion's casualties were deaths.[38][39]

The 1/2nd and 2/2nd West Riding Brigades, Royal Field Artillery (TF), had their headquarters at Valley Parade in Manningham, with batteries at Bradford, Halifax and Heckmondwike.[40] The 1/2nd Brigade crossed to France with the 1/6th Battalion West Yorks in April 1915. These Territorial Force units were to remain close to each other throughout the war, serving in the 49th (West Riding) Division.[41] They were joined in 1917 by the 2/6th Battalion, West Yorks, and 2/2nd West Riding Brigade, RFA, serving in the 62nd (2nd West Riding) Division.[42]

Recent history

Bradford's Telegraph and Argus newspaper was involved in spearheading the news of the 1936 Abdication Crisis, after the Bishop of Bradford publicly expressed doubts about Edward VIII's religious beliefs (see: Telegraph & Argus#1936 Abdication Crisis).

 
Morrisons' headquarters in Bradford

After the Second World War migrants came from Poland and Ukraine and since the 1950s from Bangladesh, India and particularly Pakistan.[43]

The textile industry has been in decline throughout the latter part of the 20th century. A culture of innovation had been fundamental to Bradford's dominance, with new textile technologies being invented in the city; a prime example being the work of Samuel Lister. This innovation culture continues today throughout Bradford's economy, from automotive (Kahn Design)[44] to electronics (Pace Micro Technology). Wm Morrison Supermarkets was founded by William Morrison in 1899, initially as an egg and butter merchant in Rawson Market, operating under the name of Wm Morrison (Provisions) Limited.[45]

The grandest of the mills no longer used for textile production is Lister's Mill, the chimney of which can be seen from most places in Bradford. It has become a beacon of regeneration after a £100 million conversion to apartment blocks by property developer Urban Splash.[46]

In 1989, copies of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses were burnt in the city, and a section of the Muslim community led a campaign against the book. In July 2001, ethnic tensions led to rioting, and a report described Bradford as fragmented[47] and a city of segregated ethnic communities.[48]

The Yorkshire Building Society opened its new headquarters in the city in 1992.[49]

In 2006 Wm Morrison Supermarkets opened its new headquarters in the city, the firm employs more than 5,000 people in Bradford.[50]

In June 2009 Bradford became the world's first UNESCO City of Film and became part of the Creative Cities Network since then.[51] The city has a long history of producing both films and the technology that produces moving film which includes the invention of the Cieroscope, which took place in Manningham in 1896.[52]

In 2010 Provident Financial opened its new headquarters in the city. The company has been based in the city since 1880.[53]

In 2012 the British Wool Marketing Board opened its new headquarters in the city.[54] Also in 2012 Bradford City Park opened, the park which cost £24.5 million to construct is a public space in the city centre which features numerous fountains and a mirror pool surrounded by benches and a walk way.[55]

In 2015 The Broadway opened, the shopping and leisure complex in the centre of Bradford cost £260 million to build and is owned by Meyer Bergman.

Governance

See also: City of Bradford

Bradford is represented by three MPs: for the constituencies of Bradford East (Imran Hussain, Labour Party), Bradford South (Judith Cummins, Labour), and Bradford West (Naz Shah, Labour Party).

Bradford was part of the Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency, which elected six Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) using the D'Hondt method of party-list proportional representation, until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020.

In the final European Parliament election, in 2019, 29.9% of voters in Bradford chose the Brexit Party, with 28.8% voting Labour and 14.1% voting Liberal Democrat. The Conservatives only polled 6.7% and UKIP 3.7%.[56]

 
 
LABOR OMNIA VINCIT

The city played an important part in the early history of the Labour Party. A mural on the back of the Bradford Playhouse (visible from Leeds Road) commemorates the centenary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in 1893, and quotes its motto "There is no weal save commonweal".[57]

The original Bradford Coat of Arms had the Latin words Labor omnia vincit below it, meaning "Work conquers all".[58] A new coat of arms was emblazoned in 1976, after local government reorganisation in 1974, with the English motto "Progress, Industry, Humanity".

Geography

Bradford is located at 53°45′00″N 01°50′00″W / 53.75000°N 1.83333°W / 53.75000; -1.83333 (53.7500, -1.8333)1. Topographically, it is located in the eastern moorland region of the South Pennines.

Bradford is not built on any substantial body of water but is situated at the junction of three valleys, one of them, that of the Bradford Beck which rises in moorland to the west, and is swelled by its tributaries, the Horton Beck, Westbrook, Bowling Beck and Eastbrook. At the site of the original ford, the beck turns north, and flows towards the River Aire at Shipley. Bradfordale (or Bradforddale) is a name given to this valley (see for example Firth 1997[1]). It can be regarded as one of the Yorkshire Dales, though as it passes through the city, it is often not recognised as such. The beck's course through the city centre is culverted and has been since the mid 19th century. On the 1852 Ordnance Survey map[2] it is visible as far as Sun Bridge, at the end of Tyrrell Street, and then from beside Bradford Forster Square railway station on Kirkgate. On the 1906 Ordnance Survey,[3] it disappears at Tumbling Hill Street, off Thornton Road, and appears north of Cape Street, off Valley Road, though there are culverts as far as Queens Road.

The Bradford Canal, built in 1774, linking the city to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal took its water from Bradford Beck and its tributaries. The supply was often inadequate to feed the locks, and the polluted state of the canal led to its temporary closure in 1866: the canal was closed in the early 20th century as uneconomic.

Geology

The underlying geology of the city is primarily carboniferous sandstones. These vary in quality from rough rock to fine, honey-coloured stone of building quality. Access to this material has had a pronounced effect on the architecture of the city.[59] The city also lies within the north western parts of the Yorkshire Coalfield which is mostly composed of carboniferous coal measures.[60]

Climate

As with the vast majority of the UK, Bradford experiences a maritime climate (Köppen: Cfb), with limited seasonal temperature ranges, and generally moderate rainfall throughout the year.[61] Records have been collected since 1908 from the Met Office's weather station at Lister Park, a short distance north of the city centre. This constitutes one of the nation's longest unbroken records of daily data. The full record can be found on the council's website.[62]

 
The weather station enclosure at Lister Park

The absolute maximum temperature recorded was 37.9 °C (100.2 °F) in July 2022.[63] In an 'average' year, the warmest day should attain a temperature of 27.5 °C (81.5 °F),[64] with a total of 6 days[65] rising to a maximum of 25.1 °C (77.2 °F) or above.

The absolute minimum temperature recorded was −13.9 °C (7.0 °F) during January 1940. The weather station's elevated suburban location means exceptionally low temperatures are unknown. Typically, 41.4 nights of the year will record an air frost.[citation needed]

Rainfall averages around 870 mm (34 in) per year with over 1 mm falling on 139 days.[66]

Sunshine, at little in excess of 1,250 hours per year is low, as one would expect of an inland location in Northern England located amongst upland areas. All averages refer to the 1981–2010 observation period.[citation needed]

Climate data for Bradford (Lister Park),[a] elevation: 134 m (440 ft), 1991–2020 normals, extremes 1908–present
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 14.6
(58.3) 		18.4
(65.1) 		21.7
(71.1) 		23.9
(75.0) 		26.7
(80.1) 		30.0
(86.0) 		37.9
(100.2) 		32.2
(90.0) 		27.2
(81.0) 		25.6
(78.1) 		17.1
(62.8) 		15.8
(60.4) 		37.9
(100.2)
Average high °C (°F) 6.8
(44.2) 		7.4
(45.3) 		9.5
(49.1) 		12.5
(54.5) 		15.7
(60.3) 		18.2
(64.8) 		20.4
(68.7) 		19.8
(67.6) 		17.2
(63.0) 		13.4
(56.1) 		9.6
(49.3) 		7.2
(45.0) 		13.1
(55.6)
Daily mean °C (°F) 4.3
(39.7) 		4.6
(40.3) 		6.2
(43.2) 		8.6
(47.5) 		11.5
(52.7) 		14.2
(57.6) 		16.3
(61.3) 		15.9
(60.6) 		13.5
(56.3) 		10.3
(50.5) 		6.8
(44.2) 		4.6
(40.3) 		9.7
(49.5)
Average low °C (°F) 1.8
(35.2) 		1.8
(35.2) 		2.9
(37.2) 		4.7
(40.5) 		7.2
(45.0) 		10.1
(50.2) 		12.2
(54.0) 		12.0
(53.6) 		9.9
(49.8) 		7.1
(44.8) 		4.1
(39.4) 		2.0
(35.6) 		6.3
(43.3)
Record low °C (°F) −13.9
(7.0) 		−13.3
(8.1) 		−11.1
(12.0) 		−10.6
(12.9) 		−3.0
(26.6) 		0.6
(33.1) 		5.0
(41.0) 		2.8
(37.0) 		0.3
(32.5) 		−4.1
(24.6) 		−7.8
(18.0) 		−13.1
(8.4) 		−13.9
(7.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 88.4
(3.48) 		73.8
(2.91) 		64.0
(2.52) 		57.8
(2.28) 		52.0
(2.05) 		72.5
(2.85) 		64.2
(2.53) 		73.7
(2.90) 		69.5
(2.74) 		84.4
(3.32) 		90.3
(3.56) 		99.0
(3.90) 		889.6
(35.02)
Average precipitation days (≥ 1.0 mm) 14.4 12.1 11.3 10.6 9.9 10.1 10.3 11.5 10.7 12.5 14.3 14.5 142.1
Mean monthly sunshine hours 43.2 67.7 105.2 142.1 173.3 159.4 167.2 156.1 122.8 89.7 54.9 38.0 1,319.4
Source 1: Met Office[b][67]
Source 2: ECA&D[68]
  1. ^ Weather station is located 2 miles (3 km) from the Bradford city centre.
  2. ^ Data was calculated from Met Office raw monthly long term data from 1991–2020.

Green belt

Further information: South and West Yorkshire Green Belt

Bradford is within a green belt region that extends into the borough and wider surrounding counties. It is in place to reduce urban sprawl, prevent the towns in the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation from further convergence, protect the identity of outlying communities, encourage brownfield reuse, and preserve nearby countryside. This is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas, and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building.[69]

The green belt surrounds the Bradford built-up area, separating towns and villages throughout the borough. Larger outlying communities such as Bingley, Wilsden, Cottingley, and Thornton are also exempt from the green belt area. However, nearby smaller villages, hamlets and rural areas such as Brunthwaite, Keelham, Denholme Gate, Laycock Esholt, Micklethwaite, Goose Eye, Stanbury, Hainworth, Tong, and Harecroft are 'washed over' by the designation.[69] Much semi-rural land on the fringes is also included. The area in 2017 amounted to some 23,890 hectares (238.9 km2; 92.2 sq mi).[70]

A subsidiary aim of the green belt is to encourage recreation and leisure interests,[69] with rural landscape features, greenfield areas and facilities including Park Wood; Northcliffe park and woods; Heaton Woods; Chellow Dene woods and reservoirs; Horton Bank country park; Norr Hill; Gilstead recreation park; Stone Circle remains by Shipley Glen; Bracken Hall; River Aire valley; Leeds and Liverpool canal; and the Leeds Country Way.

Demography

Main article: Demography of Bradford
 
Population density in the Bradford Metropolitan District Council Area from the 2011 census

At the 2011 UK census, Bradford had a population of 522,452.[71] There were 106,680 households in Bradford, and the population density was 4,560 inhabitants per square kilometre (11,820/sq mi). For every 100 females, there were 92.9 males.[72] Bradford has the youngest, fastest growing population outside London.[73]

The census showed that of Bradford's total population, 67.44% (352,317) was White, 26.83% (140,149) Asian, 2.48% (12,979) Mixed Race, 1.77% (9,267) Black and 1.48% (7,740) from other races.[74]

22.1% of the population are British South Asian (included in the 26.83% Asian figure above) the second-highest percentage of South Asians in a single settlement in England and Wales (behind the city of Leicester at 29.9%). Nearly half of all Asians living in Yorkshire and the Humber live in Bradford, with the central wards of Bradford Moor, City, Little Horton, Manningham and Toller having large majority Asian populations, whereas outlying wards of Bradford such as Thornton and Allerton, Idle and Thackley, Eccleshill, Wibsey, Wyke, Clayton, Wrose, Tong and Royds have predominantly white populations.[75][failed verification]

Bradford: Ethnicity: 2011 Census[76]
Ethnic group Population %
White 352,317 67.5
Asian or Asian British 140,149 26.8
Mixed 12,979 2.5
Black or Black British 9,267 1.8
Arab 3,714 0.7
Other Ethnic Group 4,026 0.8
Total 522,452 100

The Office for National Statistics Regional Trends report, published in June 2009, showed that some parts of Bradford suffer from the highest levels of deprivation in the country, while other areas of Bradford are some of the least deprived in the country.[77][78] Infant mortality is double the national average,[79] and life expectancy is slightly lower than in other parts of the district.[80]

The long-term health study Born in Bradford studied more than 11,300 births in the city between 2007-2011 and found that the rate of birth defects was 3%, nearly twice the national average of 1.7%.[81] The study found the leading cause was the rate of consanguineous marriage among British Pakistanis, which had become more common than a generation earlier.[81][82] In total, of 5,127 children of Pakistani origin, 37% had been born to married first cousins.[81] The study also identified an increased risk for babies born to older women. Among the white British group 19% of birth defects were associated with women over the age of 34.[81]

Economy

See also: List of companies based in Bradford

Bradford's textile industry has been in decline for many years and the city has suffered from de-industrialisation. Some areas of Bradford are among the worst levels of social deprivation in the UK,[83] with widespread pockets of exclusion, and rates of unemployment in some wards exceeding 25%,[47] though other areas of Bradford are among the least deprived in the UK.[84] The economy is worth around £9.5 billion, making Bradford's economy a major powerhouse in the region and is forecast to grow to more than £10 billion by 2018,[85] contributing around 8.4% of the region's output, and making the district the third largest (after Leeds and Sheffield) in Yorkshire & Humber. The economy has diversified and the city is home to several major companies, notably in finance (Yorkshire Building Society, Provident Financial, Santander UK), textiles (British Wool Marketing Board, Bulmer and Lumb Group), chemicals (BASF, Nufarm UK), electronics (Arris International, Filtronic), engineering (NG Bailey, Powell Switchgear), and manufacturing, (Denso Marston, Bailey Offsite, Hallmark Cards UK and Seabrook Potato Crisps). Supermarket chain Morrisons has its head office in Bradford as does water utility company Yorkshire Water.[86]

One of the city's biggest employers is Provident Financial plc, a financial services group that specialises in Home Collected Credit (HCC) and owns Vanquis Bank which offers credit cards. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. The company was established in 1880 by Joshua Kelley Waddilove to provide affordable credit to families in West Yorkshire.[87][better source needed] It has moved into a 250,000 sq ft (23,000 m2), £45 million, flagship headquarters building in the city centre creating hundreds of jobs for the city. The building also houses a 200-bed Jurys Inn hotel.[88]

In October 2011 Plans to regenerate Bradford city centre, including the long-delayed Broadway shopping centre, was given a boost as Bradford Council secured £17.6 million of regional growth funding from the government, which it will match to create a £35 million "growth zone" in which companies would get business rate relief in exchange for helping people get training and jobs.[89]

In April 2012 retail giant Freeman Grattan Holdings secured a deal to open a new head office and house around 300 staff in the centre of Bradford. The mail order and online retailer will transfer office staff from its Lidget Green base, where Grattan has had a presence since 1934, to a Grade II-listed former wool warehouse on the edge of Little Germany.[90]

Shopping

 
The Broadway

The Broadway is the main retail shopping facility in Bradford. It includes Marks and Spencer, Next, Superdry, Schuh, H&M, Khaadi, Kiko (brand), Menkind among its over 70 units.[91]

Kirkgate Shopping Centre is located in Bradford city centre. It includes Primark, New Look, Bank, W H Smith, Boots, Boyes,[92] SportsDirect.com, Deichmann and F. Hinds in its 65 shops, as well as an indoor market and 550 car parking spaces. The centre has undergone a multimillion-pound refurbishment recently, and plans to upgrade the facade of the 1960s building have been submitted as it anticipates competition from the long-awaited £260 million Westfield development which opened on 5 November 2015.[93][94][95][96] In 2022 it was announced that the centre would eventually be demolished for the "City Village" development and that Primark would move to The Broadway replacing the old Debenhams unit.[97]

 
Forster Square Retail Park

Forster Square Shopping Park opened in 1995 and is adjacent to the Forster Square Railway Station. It includes over 20 large retail and food units including Next, TK Maxx, Harveys, Asda Living, Outfit, Peacocks, Clarks, JD Sports, Currys, DFS, Subway, McDonald's and Costa Coffee.[98]

Sunbridge Wells is an underground retail complex, it incorporates restaurants, bars and retail units. The complex is built in a series of Victorian tunnels situated in the centre of Bradford.[99]

Landmarks

See also: List of Grade I listed buildings in City of Bradford

Bradford's oldest building is the cathedral, which for most of its life was a parish church. Few other Medieval buildings have survived apart from Bolling Hall, which has been preserved as a museum.

There are some fine Victorian buildings: apart from the abundance of mills, there is the City Hall (with statues of rulers of England unusually including Oliver Cromwell), the former Wool Exchange, and a large Victorian cemetery at Undercliffe. Little Germany is a splendid Victorian commercial district just east of the city centre which takes its name from 19th-century German Jewish immigrants who ran businesses from some of the many listed buildings. Following decades of decay there have been successful conversions to office and residential use. Paper Hall was saved from demolition and renovated in the 1990s and in mid-2005 renovation began on the prominent Eastbrook Hall in Little Germany. This was opened as luxury apartments by Prince Charles in Autumn 2008.[100] Bradford also has a number of architecturally historic hotels that date back to the establishment of the two railway lines into the city centre, back in Victorian times. The Victoria Hotel and the Midland Hotel were built to accommodate business travellers to the city during the height of the woollen trade.

In addition to Undercliffe Cemetery, there are seven other cemeteries in Bradford, located in Bowling, Clayton, North Bierley Thornton, Queensbury, Scholemoor, Thornton and Tong, as well as a number of Council-operated cemeteries in Keighley, Wharfedale and other parts of the district.[101]

Like many cities, Bradford lost a number of notable buildings to developers in the 1960s and 1970s: particularly mourned at the time were the Swan Arcade and the old Kirkgate Market. In recent years some buildings from that era have themselves been demolished and replaced: Provincial House, next to Centenary Square, was demolished by controlled explosion in 2002,[102] and Forster House was pulled down in 2005 as part of the Broadway development.

 
High Point viewed from Bradford city centre

The high rise High Point was built as the headquarters of the Yorkshire Building Society and completed in 1972.[103] It is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture.[104] It has been empty for several decades and various schemes have been proposed to bring it back into use.[105]

Bradford's main art gallery is housed in the grand Edwardian Cartwright Hall in Lister Park. The National Science and Media Museum celebrates cinema and movies, and is the most visited museum outside London. It contains an Imax cinema, the Cubby Broccoli Cinema, and the Pictureville Cinema — described by David Puttnam as the best cinema in Britain.[106]

 
The Bradford Alhambra frequently stages hit West End and Broadway musicals.

Also in the city is The St George's Hall—a grand concert hall dating from 1853 making it the oldest concert hall in Britain and the third oldest in the whole of Europe.[citation needed] The Alhambra theatre, built in 1914 for theatre impresario Frank Laidler, and later owned by the Moss Empire group (Oswald Stoll and Edward Moss). The theatre was refurbished in 1986.

Within the city district there are 37 parks and gardens. Lister Park, with its boating lake and Mughal Water Gardens, was voted Britain's Best Park for 2006.[107] Bowling Park in East Bowling is the site of the annual Bradford Carnival celebrating local African and Caribbean culture.

Bradford City Park, now home to the Bradford Festival which includes the Mela, is a six-acre (2.4-hectare) public space in the heart of Bradford which contains the largest man-made water feature in any UK city—a 4,000 m2 (43,000 sq ft) mirror pool featuring more than 100 fountains, including the tallest in any UK city at 30 m (100 ft). When the mirror pool is drained City Park is capable of holding events such as carnivals, markets, theatre productions, screenings and community festivals. Work started on the £24 million project in February 2010 and City Park officially opened in March 2012, with thousands of people turning out for the grand opening event.

The Bradford Odeon, formerly the Gaumont and New Victoria Theatre, was built in 1930 as a music venue and cinema with a capacity of over 3,000, and was the largest UK cinema outside London at the time. (Another Odeon, always part of the Odeon Cinemas chain, was built in the city in 1938 and demolished in 1969.) Standing in a conservation area adjacent to the listed Alhambra Theatre, it closed in 2000 and was sold to developer Langtree with the intention it would be demolished and replaced with an apartment and office block. The Odeon was the subject of much controversy over these proposals, with public support in the form of a 10,000-signature petition and campaigns for its renovation. In his successful by-election campaign for Bradford West in March 2012, George Galloway cited the restoration of the Odeon as his number one priority, later asking Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene.[108] The architectural historian Jonathan Foyle, actresses Imelda Staunton and Jenny Agutter, and director Michael Winner all lent their support to the campaign.

Memorials

Transport

In past centuries Bradford's location in Bradfordale made transport difficult, except from the north; this is no longer a problem.[why?]

Road

Bradford was first connected to the developing turnpike network in 1734,[citation needed] when the first Yorkshire turnpike was built between Manchester and Leeds via Halifax and the city.

It is now accessed by trunk roads; the A647 between Leeds and Halifax via Queensbury, the A650 between Wakefield and Keighley, the A658 to Harrogate and the A6036 to Halifax via Shelf.

The M606, a spur of the M62 motorway, connects Bradford with the national motorway network. Although originally planned to go directly into the city centre it ends at the city's ring road.

Buses

 
Bradford trolleybus in Leeds Road, Greengates, May 1971.
 
Bradford Interchange’s bus end entrance

On 20 June 1911, Britain's first trolleybus systems opened simultaneously in Bradford, between Laisterdyke and Dudley Hill, and in Leeds.[109] The last service in Bradford—and Britain—ceased operation on 26 March 1972.[109][110] Ten Bradford trolleybuses are preserved at the Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.[111] In 1974 Bradford's municipal buses were taken over by West Yorkshire Metro. First Bradford and Arriva Yorkshire are the chief operators of buses in Bradford, with some routes using guided buses.

Water

The Bradford Canal was a 4-mile (6.4 km) spur from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Shipley. It was built to connect Bradford with the North Riding's limestone quarries, the industrial towns on both sides of the Pennines and the ports of Liverpool and Goole. The canal opened from 1774 until 1866 and 1871 until 1922, plans to rebuild it have existed.

Rail

The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened Forster Square railway station on 1 July 1846 with a service via Shipley to Leeds. The station was rebuilt in the early 1850s and again, in 1890 and 1990.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway opened a station at Drake Street on 9 May 1850, between Manchester and Leeds. The Great Northern Railway opened a third terminus at Adolphus Street in 1854, but the station was too far from the centre, and the two companies built a joint station, Bradford Exchange which opened in 1867.[112] Adolphus Street remained as a goods terminal. In 1973, Exchange station was rebuilt on a different site and in 1983 renamed Bradford Interchange and a bus station built alongside.

Forster Square and Bradford Interchange stations are part of the West Yorkshire Metro. There have been many schemes to link between Bradford's railway terminals. The major redevelopment of the city centre in the 1960s provided an opportunity to connect the termini, this did not happen with large buildings constructed in the 1990s along the proposed line of route. There is the great difference in elevation: Bradford Interchange is at the end of a long steep slope and is much higher than Forster Square. This gradient is not unprecedented in railway construction and the relocation of Forster Square further from the city centre provided additional space in which the transition could be accomplished.

A tram system was inaugurated by Bradford Corporation in 1882. At first the vehicles were horse-drawn but were replaced by steam-driven trams in 1883, and by electric vehicles in 1898. The system ran until 1950.[113]

Air

 
The terminal building, Leeds Bradford International Airport

Leeds Bradford Airport is 6 miles (9.7 km) to the north east of the city. Bradford and Leeds councils jointly opened the airport in 1931. It is the home base of Jet2.com airlines. In May 2007 the joint councils sold the airport to Bridgepoint Capital for £145.5 million, £70 million would be invested in airport improvements by the company and expected to increase passenger usage to over 7 million by 2015.[114]

Education

See also: List of schools in Bradford

Bradford Grammar School was in existence near the parish church in the mid-16th century and re-established by Royal Charter as the Free Grammar School of Charles II in 1662.[115]

The University of Bradford, which has over 10,000 students, received its Royal Charter in 1966, but traces its history to the 1860s when it was founded as the Bradford Schools of Weaving, Design and Building. The university now covers a wide range of subjects including technology and management science, optometry, pharmacy, medical sciences, nursing studies, archaeology and modern languages. Its Peace Studies department, founded with Quaker support in 1973, was for a long time the only such institution in the UK.

In terms of nationally recognised leading areas of research there are various departments such as Institute of Cancer Therapeutics, Bradford School of Pharmacy, Peace Studies, Archaeology, Engineering, Management, Centre for Skin Sciences amongst others. The university balances academic research and teaching quality with a strong tradition of social inclusion. The University of Bradford was ranked second in the UK for graduate employment by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005.[116]

In December 2010 the university was named as the greenest in the UK for the second year running.[117]

 
The Old Building at Bradford College founded in 1832

The University of Bradford School of Management was in 2011 rated the 14th best business school in the UK by the Financial Times.[118]Bradford College developed from the 19th-century technical college whose buildings it inherited. It offers further and higher educational courses and is an Associate College of Leeds Metropolitan University and is the UK's largest provider of higher-education courses outside the university sector, with 23,000 students and 1,800 staff.[119] It absorbed the Art School whose most famous alumnus is David Hockney.

Whilst in Bradford after 1892, Margaret McMillan joined the Fabian Society and the Independent Labour Party. Working with her sister, Rachel, she set about improving the welfare of children living in the slums, and campaigned for free school meals. A memorial college to Margaret McMillan was opened in 1952.[120]

Recent Ofsted reports rank many Bradford schools as amongst the UK's finest.[119]

Religion

 
Bradford Cathedral, one of the oldest churches in Bradford

Two carved stones, probably parts of a Saxon preaching cross, were found on the site of Bradford Cathedral. They indicate that Christians may have worshipped here since Paulinus of York came to the north of England in AD 627 on a mission to convert Northumbria. He preached in Dewsbury and it was from there that Bradford was first evangelised. The vicars of Bradford later paid dues to that parish. The most prominent Christian church in Bradford is Bradford Cathedral, originally the Parish Church of St Peter. The parish was in existence by 1283, and there was a stone church on the rock shelf above Bradford Beck by 1327. The Diocese of Bradford was created from part of the Diocese of Ripon in 1919, and the church became a cathedral at that time. Bradford has over 150 churches and chapels.[121] Many of the Roman Catholic churches that are found within the city are a legacy of the large Irish population that migrated to Bradford in the 19th century.[citation needed]

The patron saint of Bradford is Saint Blaise because of his patronage of wool combing, and his statue features on the Wool Exchange in the centre of the city. There is also a statue of the saint in St Cuthbert's Catholic Church, Wilmer Road, also noted as the location of the famous Stations of the Cross by Eric Gill.[122][123]

The district has a tradition of nonconformity which is reflected in the number of chapels erected by Congregationalists, Baptists and Methodists. The city was a centre of the House Church movement in the 1980s, and the Christian charity Christians Against Poverty was founded in the city. Other house churches in the city include El Shaddai International Christian Centre and the World Outreach Church. Bradford is also home to the LIFE Church UK, a large nonconforming Church, that has around 3,000 members.[124]

The Jewish community was strong in the middle to late 19th century and built Bradford Reform Synagogue in Manningham. This, "The oldest reform synagogue outside London",[125] was established by German Jews who had moved to Bradford for the wool trade. According to historian Sharman Kadish, "The city of Bradford was unique in that it boasted a reform synagogue before it acquired an orthodox one".[126] In 1881 Russian Jews made their home in Bradford, having fled their homeland, and founded an orthodox synagogue.[127] In 2011 the Jewish population was 299.[128]

 
Bradford Grand Mosque on Horton Park Avenue

The city has a sizeable South Asian community and the Lakshmi Narayan mandir which opened in April 2008[129] is the largest Hindu temple in northern England.[130] There is a Hindu temple and community centre on Thornton Lane[131] and smaller house-based mandirs.

The city has about 100 mosques,[132] among which are the Bradford Grand Mosque[133] and the Al Mahdi Mosque.[citation needed]

The Sikh community has six gurudwaras in the city. The Sikh festival of Vaisakhi is celebrated on 14 April. Sikhs travel to each of the gurudwaras in the city in a procession called a nagar kirtan.[134]

Bradford: Religion: 2011 Census[135]
Religion Population %
Christian 239,843 45.9
Muslim 129,041 24.7
No Religion 108,027 20.7
Undeclared 32,549 6.2
Sikh 5,125 1.0
Hindu 4,882 0.9
Buddhist 1,000 0.2
Jewish 299 0.1
Other Religion 1,686 0.3
Total 522,452 100

Culture

The National Science and Media Museum hosts the Bradford International Film Festival annually in March. In June 2009 Bradford was designated the world's first UNESCO City of Film for its links to the production and distribution of films, its media and film museum and its "cinematographic legacy". "Becoming the world's first City of Film is the ultimate celebration of Bradford's established and dynamic history in film and media," said Colin Philpott, director of Bradford's National Media Museum. "With the UNESCO City of Film designation, Bradford will now go on to achieve inspirational projects in film." Simon Beaufoy from Bradford, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire, said the city had played a crucial role in the story of cinema and deserved to be recognised.[136]

Bradford has developed a relationship with Bollywood, hosting the International Indian Film Festival awards in 2007.

The Bradford Animation Festival is the UK's longest-running animation festival. Held each November, the festival hosts an array of screentalks, workshops and special events. The festival culminates in the annual BAF Awards which celebrate new animation from around the world.[137]

The Cottingley Fairy photographs taken by Elsie Wright and two of the cameras used are on display in the Kodak Gallery in the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford.

There are four theatres in Bradford. The Alhambra also has a smaller studio theatre in the same complex. These are operated by City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. The Theatre in the Mill is a small studio theatre at the University of Bradford, which presents student and community shows and small-scale touring professional work. The Bradford Playhouse is a privately run venue with a medium-sized proscenium theatre and a small studio.

Among the professional theatre companies based in Bradford are Kala Sangam, the satirical madcap comedy troop, Komedy Kollective, Lost Dog (based at Theatre in the Mill) and Mind the Gap, one of the longest established, who have always worked with a mixture of disabled and able-bodied performers. Groups and organisations teaching theatre include The Asian Theatre School, Bradford Stage and Theatre School and Stage 84. There are also a number of amateur theatre groups.

St George's Hall is a concert hall dating from 1853 making it the oldest concert hall in Britain and the third oldest in Europe.[citation needed] Bradford Festival Choral Society was founded to perform at the inaugural Bradford Musical Festival that took place in August of that year,[138] and the choir is still a part of the musical life of the city. The Hallé Orchestra have been regular visitors over the years, as have a wide range of popular musicians, bands, entertainers, comedians and theatrical productions. In 2017 an £8.2 million renovation scheme of St George's Hall was started, after completion it is planned for the concert venue to re-open in late 2018.[139]

 
St George's Hall

Cinemas have been replaced by vast entertainment complexes with multi-screen cinemas. The Leisure Exchange in the city centre has a 16 screen Cineworld. At Thornbury, on the outskirts is the Odeon Leeds-Bradford with 13 screens which replaced the old Odeon next to the Alhambra which is the continuing focus of protests by Bradfordians who do not wish to see the old building demolished.[140] The University of Bradford also has a cinema run by the Students' Union, operating from the university's Great Hall.[141]

Nightlife in Bradford has traditionally centred on Manor Row and Manningham Lane. More recently, several clubs and pubs have opened in the West End of Bradford, around the Alhambra Theatre, turning what was a previously fairly quiet area into one that is often crowded and vibrant at night. North Parade has also seen several new themed bars open and is at the heart of the Independent Quarter of the city.[142] Sunbridge Wells is an underground leisure and retail complex which opened in Bradford city centre in 2016.

 
Sunny day at the City Park

Bradford was one of the first areas of the UK to get a local commercial radio station Pennine Radio in September 1975. Today, this is Pulse 1 and Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire. As of 2006, Bradford Community Broadcasting based in the city centre has broadcast on full-time Community Radio licence around Bradford and the Aire Valley, whilst the university radio station Ramair broadcasts to the student population. Bradford's only television station AAP TV caters for Bradford's large Asian community. The Telegraph and Argus is Bradford's daily newspaper, published six days each week from Monday to Saturday.

The Bradford Mela is now part of the bigger Bradford Festival which takes place in June.[143] The word mela is Sanskrit for 'a gathering' or 'to meet'. In the UK, melas provide an opportunity for communities to come together to celebrate and share their cultures. Mela festivals include a combination of markets, funfairs, food and drink, arts and workshops, children's activities, strolling entertainment and a variety of music and dance performances on a number of stages. Bradford held the first mela in Europe in September 1988 and it is presently held in Bradford City Park.

Bradford City Park has the largest city centre water feature in the UK.[144]

Museums and art galleries

Bradford is home to the acclaimed National Science and Media Museum (previously the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television) which celebrates cinema and movies, and is the most visited museum outside London. It contains the UK's first IMAX theatre, the Cubby Broccoli Cinema, and the Pictureville Cinema — described by David Puttnam as the best cinema in Britain.[106]

Bradford Industrial Museum was established in 1974 at Moorside Mills, a spinning mill in Eccleshill. The Museum celebrates and explains the significant achievements in Bradford's industrial past, from textiles and printing to the manufacture of motor cars.[145]

A mile from the city centre is Bolling Hall Museum, a part medieval building which offers visitors a journey through the lives and times of the families for which it provided a home for over five hundred years. Rooms are furnished and decorated to give a taste of life at different periods of the house's history.[146]

Bradford's main art gallery is housed in Cartwright Hall in Lister Park. Bradford 1 Gallery is a city centre art gallery opened in October 2007 in a new building in Centenary Square. The gallery shows four temporary exhibitions a year.[147]

The Bradford Museums & Galleries has a collection items relating to Herbert Morley (explorer) and Mitch the printmaker.[148]

Impressions Gallery is an independent contemporary photography gallery with a temporary exhibitions programme showing on average six exhibitions each year. The gallery moved from York to Centenary Square, Bradford, in 2007.

Music

Bradford is the home town of rock bands New Model Army, Anti System, Smokie, Southern Death Cult, The Cult, The Scene, Redwire, Chantel McGregor, One Minute Silence, Scars on 45, Terrorvision, My Dying Bride and hip hop group Fun-Da-Mental.

Singer-songwriters Tasmin Archer, Teddy Sinclair and Kiki Dee—the first white British artist to be signed by Motown—also hail from the city.

Since the 1980s, Bradford has proved influential within the UK's punk rock scene, primarily because of the 1 in 12 Club, a music venue and anarchist workers' cooperative and members' club. 1980s groups such as Sore Throat, Anti System and late-era Doom all based themselves around the club,[149] as did 1990s groups such as Voorhees and Ironside.[150]

In 2002 Gareth Gates came second in the first series of Pop Idol and went on to achieve four UK number one singles before enjoying success in musical theatre. Kimberly Walsh achieved major success after winning a place in the girl band Girls Aloud in Popstars: The Rivals later in the same year, and in 2010 Zayn Malik came third in The X Factor with his boy band One Direction, who in March 2012 became the first British group to go straight to the top of the US music charts with their debut album.[151]

The guitar player and composer Allan Holdsworth was born in Bradford in 1946.[152]

Curry

In 2013 Bradford was again crowned "Curry Capital of Britain" after seeing off other strong contenders such as Glasgow and Wolverhampton. Bradford scored highly not just for the quality of food and service offered by each of the restaurants, but also for food hygiene, a deep understanding of the curry restaurant sector and its success in collectively raising funds for food charity The Curry Tree, which seeks to alleviate the plight of the poor in South East Asia. The judges were also particularly impressed by Bradford's International Food Academy and Jamie's Ministry of Food, which teaches the districts residents how to cook quick, simple, healthy and cost-effective meals.[153]

Sport

Bradford has a long sporting tradition, and Bradford Bulls, formerly Bradford Northern, is one of the most successful rugby league clubs in the world, winning the World Club Championship three times since 2002 and seven times winners of the Rugby Football League Championship. Bradford Bulls play at the Grattan Stadium, Odsal, formerly Odsal Stadium. The city is also home to a number of rugby union clubs—Bradford Salem are based in the Heaton area and Wibsey RFC can be found to the south of the city centre. The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is located close to the Odsal and the sports facilities at the university are also open to the public at certain times.

Bradford City Football Club was formed in 1903. James Whyte, a sub-editor of the Bradford Observer met with Football Association representative, John Brunt, in January to discuss plans, and in May, Manningham RFC, a rugby league team decided to change codes to association football.[154] The Football League subsequently elected Bradford City to the league, with a total of 30 votes to replace Doncaster Rovers,[155] because it saw the invitation as a chance to introduce football to the rugby-dominated county.[156] Eight years after the club was elected to the league, City won the FA Cup and recorded the highest league position in its history.[157] They currently compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The ground suffered one of the worst all-time sporting disasters after 56 people died at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985.[158] A second club from the city, Bradford Park Avenue played in the Football League until it dropped out in 1970, then went into liquidation in 1974. The club now plays in the National League North, which means the Bradford derby has not been played in years. Bradford Park Avenue hosted county cricket for Yorkshire as well as football.

The defunct Bradford Dukes speedway team raced at Odsal. Speedway was staged at Greenfields Stadium in the pioneer days, when it was known as the Autodrome in the early 1960s. Odsal opened its doors in 1945 and continued in the late 1950s. It entered a team in the 1960 Provincial League then fell dormant until the 1970s when it re-opened. The track staged a Speedway World Final. The speedway team rode under a number of names—probably the longest running was Bradford Northern—in common with the Rugby League team. This was changed to Bradford Barons—emulating the more successful Halifax Dukes. Eventually the Halifax team was brought to Bradford under the name Bradford Dukes.

Joe Johnson is a retired professional snooker player from Bradford who won the 1986 World Snooker Championship.[159]

Jasmin Atker is a Bradford student who captained the first England team in the international Street Child Cricket World Cup, and was named one of the BBC 100 top inspiring women in 2019.[160]

The Bradford Dragons are the city's basketball team, competing in the second tier English Basketball League Division 1. The team play their home games at Bradford College.

The city also has a history of skateboarding culture; in Ian Glasper's 2012 book Armed with Anger, the city was described as "West Yorkshire's de facto skate capital".[150]

City of Sanctuary

After a campaign in 2008, Bradford was recognised as a 'City of Sanctuary' on 18 November 2010. Bradford is "a place where a broad range of local organisations, community groups and faith communities, as well as local government are publicly committed to welcoming and including people seeking sanctuary." The city has a history of welcoming newcomers from throughout the world. An example of this was Bradford's purchase of the Carlton Hostel building in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport scheme, made possible through donations from both Bradford's Jewish community and non–Jews,[161] to house German Jewish refugee children during the Second World War.[162][163]

Public services

There are two major hospitals in Bradford: Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke's Hospital. Both are teaching hospitals and are operated by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS trust. Over the years the Trust has subsumed a number of smaller hospitals; these include Woodlands Orthopaedic Hospital, Northern View and Bierley Hall.

Bradford is the focus of one of the UK's largest ever birth cohort studies, known as Born in Bradford. Partly supported by European funding, it is the result of close collaboration between the University of Bradford, the NHS and other institutions in West Yorkshire. It will track the lives of all the babies born in the city from 2006 to 2008 and aims to provide a wealth of data, allowing health researchers the opportunity to investigate many different aspects of health and wellbeing.

Crime

Bradford has been the scene of some high-profile crimes such as the shooting of Bradford PC Sharon Beshenivsky while responding to a burglary in the city.[164] In May 2010, Stephen Griffiths was charged with the Bradford murders.[165]

The Manningham Riot occurred between 10 and 12 June 1995, in Manningham and the 2001 Bradford race riots began on 7 July 2001 as a result of tension between ethnic minority communities and the city's white majority, stoked by the Anti-Nazi League and the National Front.[166][167] There were 297 arrests; 187 people charged with riot, 45 with violent disorder leading to 200 jail sentences totalling 604 years.[168]

Bradfordians

Main article: List of people from Bradford

Only a few particularly notable names are listed here.

 
Sir William Rothenstein photo by George Charles Beresford, 1902

Among Bradford born people who made significant contributions to the arts were David Hockney, painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer, who was born in the city and educated at Bradford Grammar School.[169] Frederick Delius (1862–1934) was a composer born to a family of German descent in the city[170] and J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) was a novelist and playwright. Sir William Rothenstein was a painter, draughtsman and writer on art who was principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935.[171] In the genre of classical music Rodney Friend is an English violinist, born (1940), in 1964 he became the youngest ever leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[172] In the field of science and medicine, Friederich Wilhelm Eurich (1867–1945), professor of forensic medicine and bacteriologist, did much to conquer anthrax in the wool trade.

Sir Edward Appleton (1892–1965), discoverer of the ionosphere was a Nobel Prize winner.[173] Robert Turner (1923–1990) was a pathologist who came to Bradford from Belfast, and pioneered the use of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer at the Bradford Royal Infirmary.

In the field of industry, Sir Jacob Behrens (1806–1889) was an Anglo–German textile merchant who was instrumental in Bradford becoming a major exporter of woollen goods.[174]

A social reformer who campaigned against child labour, Richard Oastler (1789–1861), is commemorated by a statue in Northgate[175] and the Oastler Shopping Centre located close to the Kirkgate Shopping Centre W.E. Forster (1818–1886), was MP for Bradford and, commemorated by statue, is the namesake of Forster Square.[176]

In recent pop culture the former participant of The X Factor, Zayn Malik, former member of successful[177][178] boy band One Direction, was born and raised in Bradford.[179] American film star Aasif Mandvi grew up in Bradford.[180]

In popular culture

The city has a rich heritage in film production and many films and TV productions have been filmed in the city. Films using Bradford as a location include Room at the Top (1959); Billy Liar (1963); The Railway Children (1970), a children's film shot around Haworth including the Bronte Parsonage; Yanks (1979), starring Richard Gere; Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), with footage filmed in Lister Park;[181] FairyTale: A True Story (1997) starring Harvey Keitel, based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies; and East is East (1997), in which Oak Lane is shown when the family visit the city.[182]

The Buttershaw area of the city featured in the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987), in which two 16-year-old girls were involved in a love triangle with a wealthy married man (played by George Costigan). The film was created by local Andrea Dunbar, and was initially unpopular with local residents due to its negative image of the area, but has since earned itself a good reputation in the local community as Buttershaw's claim to fame.[183][184] The award-winning 2013 film The Selfish Giant takes place in and around Bradford.[185]

In the BBC political satire The Amazing Mrs Pritchard (2006), the Prime Minister considers a proposal to move Parliament to Bradford, as it is closer to the geographic centre of the country than London. The 2008 Spooks spin-off for BBC Three, Spooks: Code 9, was filmed in the city,[186] as were the television adaptation of the Red Riding works by David Peace first broadcast in 2009.[187] Bradford was the focus of a 2012 Channel 4 documentary, Make Bradford British, which examined the level of integration between the city's Christian and Muslim communities.[188] Series 2 of The Syndicate, which aired in 2013 on BBC One, featured a syndicate involving workers at a public hospital in Bradford. Scenes for the second season of All Creatures Great and Small were filmed in Little Germany in April 2021, featuring child and adult actors from the theatre school Articulate.[189]

Bradford features under the name of "Broadbeck" in the best-selling 1912 novel Windyridge by Bradford novelist Willie Riley.[190] Link, the main character of the 1993 novel Stone Cold, is from Bradford.[citation needed]

International relations

Bradford is twinned with a number of places around the world:[191]

See also

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Further reading

  • ^ Allen, C. (2003). Fair justice: the Bradford disturbances, the sentencing and the impact. London: Forum Against Islamophobia and Racism.
  • ^ Lister, Derek A. J. (2004). Bradford's Own. Sutton. ISBN 978-0-7509-3826-6. OCLC 56460838.
  • ^ Adams, Peter J. (2001). Ordnance Survey 1:10,560 County Series Map: Yorkshire Sheet 216. Heritage Cartography. ISBN 978-1-903004-34-0. OCLC 63800551. This was surveyed 1847–1850, and published in 1852, though it was reprinted at various dates with certain (unidentified) details updated. The modern edition from Heritage Cartography is 'redrawn' from the original, and titled Bradford 1849, but the railways shown indicate that it is from a printing of at least 1854.
  • ^ Firth, Gary (1997). A History of Bradford. Phillimore. ISBN 978-1-86077-057-9. OCLC 44633113.
  • Wilmott, Elvira (1987). The Ryburn Map of Victorian Bradford. Ryburn. ISBN 978-1-85331-004-1. OCLC 63989031. The map itself is a reproduction of the Plan of the Town of Bradford … revised and corrected to the present time by Dixon & Hindle, 1871.
  • Richardson, C. (1976). A Geography of Bradford. University of Bradford. ISBN 0-901945-19-6.

External links

 
Wikisource has the text of a 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article about Bradford.
  • Official website
  •   Bradford travel guide from Wikivoyage

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This article is about the city For the metropolitan borough see City of Bradford For other uses see Bradford disambiguation Bradford is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Bradford district in West Yorkshire England The city is in the Pennines eastern foothills on the banks of the Bradford Beck Bradford had a population of 349 561 at the 2011 census the second largest population centre in the county after Leeds which is 9 miles 14 km to the east of the city It shares a continuous built up area with the towns of Shipley Silsden Bingley and Keighley in the district as well as with the metropolitan county s other districts Its name is also given to Bradford Beck BradfordCityClockwise from top left Bradford Wool Exchange City Hall St George s Hall Cartwright Hall Market Street with Wool Exchange Skyline Manningham Mills and Cathedral Coat of arms of BradfordBradfordLocation within West YorkshireArea81 74 sq mi 211 7 km2 Population366 187 1 Density4 480 sq mi 1 730 km2 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West Riding of Yorkshire municipal borough in 1847 and received its city charter in 1897 Since local government reform in 1974 the city is the administrative centre of a wider metropolitan district city hall is the meeting place of Bradford City Council The district has civil parishes and unparished areas and had a population of 546 412 making it the 7th most populous district in England In the century leading up its city status the 19th century it was boomtown in international textile manufacture It was one of the earliest industrialised settlements rapidly becoming the wool capital of the world this in turn gave rise to the nicknames Woolopolis and Wool City 3 The area s access to supplies of coal iron ore and soft water set off the growth of manufacturing which led to an explosion in population From the mid 20th century deindustrialisation lead to the textile sector and industrial base to decline including poverty unemployment and social unrest The city s economy is the third largest in the Yorkshire and the Humber region at around 10 billion based on finance and manufacturing Tourism and media is also a part of the economy it was the first UNESCO City of Film with attractions such as the National Science and Media Museum Bradford City Park the Alhambra theatre and Cartwright Hall It is the UK City of Culture for 2025 having won the designation on 31 May 2022 4 Contents 1 History 1 1 Toponymy 1 2 Early history 1 3 Industrial Revolution 1 4 Independent Labour Party 1 5 The Bradford Pals 1 6 Recent history 2 Governance 3 Geography 3 1 Geology 3 2 Climate 3 3 Green belt 4 Demography 5 Economy 5 1 Shopping 6 Landmarks 6 1 Memorials 7 Transport 7 1 Road 7 1 1 Buses 7 2 Water 7 3 Rail 7 4 Air 8 Education 9 Religion 10 Culture 10 1 Museums and art galleries 10 2 Music 10 3 Curry 11 Sport 12 City of Sanctuary 13 Public services 14 Crime 15 Bradfordians 16 In popular culture 17 International relations 18 See also 19 References 19 1 Bibliography 20 Further reading 21 External linksHistorySee also Timeline of Bradford Toponymy The name Bradford is derived from the Old English brad and ford the broad ford which referred to a crossing of the Bradford Beck at Church Bank below the site of Bradford Cathedral around which a settlement grew in Anglo Saxon times 5 It was recorded as Bradeford in 1086 6 Early history After an uprising in 1070 during William the Conqueror s Harrying of the North the manor of Bradford was laid waste 5 and is described as such in the Domesday Book of 1086 It then became part of the Honour of Pontefract given to Ilbert de Lacy for service to the Conqueror in whose family the manor remained until 1311 5 There is evidence of a castle in the time of the Lacys 7 The manor then passed to the Earl of Lincoln John of Gaunt The Crown and ultimately private ownership in 1620 5 By the middle ages Bradford had become a small town centred on Kirkgate Westgate and Ivegate 5 8 In 1316 there is mention of a fulling mill a soke mill where all the manor corn was milled and a market During the Wars of the Roses the inhabitants sided with House of Lancaster Edward IV granted the right to hold two annual fairs and from this time the town began to prosper In the reign of Henry VIII Bradford exceeded Leeds as a manufacturing centre 7 Bradford grew slowly over the next two hundred years as the woollen trade gained in prominence During the Civil War the town was garrisoned for the Parliamentarians and in 1642 was unsuccessfully attacked by Royalist forces from Leeds Sir Thomas Fairfax took the command of the garrison and marched to meet the Duke of Newcastle but was defeated The Parliamentarians retreated to Bradford and the Royalists set up headquarters at Bolling Hall from where the town was besieged leading to its surrender 7 The Civil War caused a decline in industry but after the accession of William III and Mary II in 1689 prosperity began to return 5 The launch of manufacturing in the early 18th century marked the start of the town s development while new canal and turnpike road links encouraged trade Industrial Revolution Bradford Boundaries 1835 In 1801 Bradford was a rural market town of 6 393 people 9 where wool spinning and cloth weaving was carried out in local cottages and farms Bradford was thus not much bigger than nearby Keighley 5 745 and was significantly smaller than Halifax 8 866 and Huddersfield 7 268 9 This small town acted as a hub for three nearby townships Manningham Bowling and Great and Little Horton which were separated from the town by countryside 9 Blast furnaces were established in about 1788 by Hird Dawson Hardy at Low Moor and iron was worked by the Bowling Iron Company until about 1900 Yorkshire iron was used for shackles hooks and piston rods for locomotives colliery cages and other mining appliances where toughness was required The Low Moor Company also made pig iron and the company employed 1 500 men in 1929 10 when the municipal borough of Bradford was created in 1847 there were 46 coal mines within its boundaries Coal output continued to expand reaching a peak in 1868 when Bradford contributed a quarter of all the coal and iron produced in Yorkshire 11 The population of the township in 1841 was 34 560 12 In 1825 the wool combers union called a strike that lasted five months but workers were forced to return to work through hardship leading to the introduction of machine combing 13 This Industrial Revolution led to rapid growth with wool imported in vast quantities for the manufacture of worsted cloth in which Bradford specialised and the town soon became known as the wool capital of the world 14 A permanent military presence was established in the city with the completion of Bradford Moor Barracks in 1844 15 Bradford waterworks on completion of the Wharfedale scheme in 1881 Bradford had ample supplies of locally mined coal to provide the power that the industry needed Local sandstone was an excellent resource for building the mills and with a population of 182 000 by 1850 16 the town grew rapidly as workers were attracted by jobs in the textile mills 14 A desperate shortage of water in Bradford Dale was a serious limitation on industrial expansion and improvement in urban sanitary conditions In 1854 Bradford Corporation bought the Bradford Water Company 17 and embarked on a huge engineering programme to bring supplies of soft water from Airedale Wharfedale and Nidderdale 18 By 1882 water supply had radically improved Meanwhile urban expansion took place along the routes out of the city towards the Hortons and Bowling and the townships had become part of a continuous urban area by the late 19th century 8 A major employer was Titus Salt who in 1833 took over the running of his father s woollen business specialising in fabrics combining alpaca mohair cotton and silk By 1850 he had five mills However because of the polluted environment and squalid conditions for his workers Salt left Bradford and transferred his business to Salts Mill in Saltaire in 1850 where in 1853 he began to build the workers village which has become a UNESCO World Heritage Site 19 Henry Ripley was a younger contemporary of Titus Salt He was managing partner of Edward Ripley amp Son Ltd which owned the Bowling Dye Works In 1880 the dye works employed over 1000 people and was said to be the biggest dye works in Europe Like Salt he was a councillor JP and Bradford MP who was deeply concerned to improve working class housing conditions He built the industrial Model village of Ripley Ville on a site in Broomfields East Bowling close to the dye works Lister s Mill Other major employers were Samuel Lister and his brother who were worsted spinners and manufacturers at Lister s Mill Manningham Mills Lister epitomised Victorian enterprise but it has been suggested that his capitalist attitude made trade unions necessary 20 Unprecedented growth created problems with over 200 factory chimneys continually churning out black sulphurous smoke Bradford gained the reputation of being the most polluted town in England There were frequent outbreaks of cholera and typhoid and only 30 of children born to textile workers reached the age of fifteen This extreme level of infant and youth mortality contributed to a life expectancy for Bradford residents of just over eighteen years which was one of the lowest in the country Like many major cities Bradford has been a destination for immigrants In the 1840s Bradford s population was significantly increased by migrants from Ireland particularly rural Mayo 21 and Sligo and by 1851 about 10 of the population were born in Ireland the largest proportion in Yorkshire 22 Around 23 the middle decades of the 19th century the Irish were concentrated in eight densely settled areas situated near the town centre One of these was the Bedford Street area of Broomfields which in 1861 contained 1 162 persons of Irish birth 19 of all Irish born persons in the Borough 24 Little Germany During the 1820s and 1830s there was immigration from Germany Many were Jewish merchants and they became active in the life of the town The Jewish community mostly living in the Manningham area of the town 25 numbered about 100 families but was influential in the development of Bradford as a major exporter of woollen goods from their textile export houses predominately based in Little Germany and the civic life of Bradford Charles Semon 1814 1877 was a textile merchant and philanthropist who developed a productive textile export house in the town he became the first foreign and Jewish mayor of Bradford in 1864 26 Jacob Behrens 1806 1889 was the first foreign textile merchant to export woollen goods from the town his company developed into an international multimillion pound business 27 Behrens was a philanthropist he also helped to establish the Bradford chamber of commerce in 1851 28 Jacob Moser 1839 1922 was a textile merchant who was a partner in the firm Edelstein Moser and Co which developed into a successful Bradford textile export house Moser was a philanthropist he founded the Bradford Charity Organisation Society and the City Guild of Help In 1910 Moser became the first Jewish Lord Mayor of Bradford 29 Jowett Cars Eight badge To support the textile mills a large manufacturing base grew up in the town providing textile machinery and this led to diversification with different industries thriving side by side 14 The Jowett Motor Company founded in the early 20th century by Benjamin and William Jowett and Arthur V Lamb manufactured cars and vans in Bradford for 50 years 30 The Scott Motorcycle Company was a well known producer of motorcycles and light engines for industry Founded by Alfred Angas Scott in 1908 as the Scott Engineering Company in Bradford Scott motorcycles were produced until 1978 Independent Labour Party The city played an important part in the early history of the Labour Party A mural on the back of the Bradford Playhouse in Little Germany commemorates the centenary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in Bradford in 1893 31 The Bradford Pals Regimental colours The Bradford Pals were three First World War Pals battalions of Kitchener s Army raised in the city When the three battalions were taken over by the British Army they were officially named the 16th 1st Bradford 18th 2nd Bradford and 20th Reserve Battalions The Prince of Wales s Own West Yorkshire Regiment 32 On the morning of 1 July 1916 the 16th and 18th Battalions left their trenches in Northern France to advance across no man s land It was the first hour of the first day of the Battle of the Somme Of the estimated 1 394 men from Bradford and District in the two battalions 1 060 were either killed or injured during the ill fated attack on the village of Serre les Puisieux 33 Other Bradford Battalions of The Prince of Wales s Own West Yorkshire Regiment involved in the Battle of the Somme were the 1st 6th Battalion the former Bradford Rifle Volunteers part of the Territorial Force based at Belle Vue Barracks in Manningham and the 10th Battalion another Kitchener battalion 34 35 The 1 6th Battalion first saw action in 1915 at the Battle of Aubers Ridge before moving north to the Yser Canal near Ypres On the first day of the Somme they took heavy casualties while trying to support the 36th Ulster Division 36 37 The 10th Battalion was involved in the attack on Fricourt where it suffered the highest casualty rate of any battalion on the Somme on 1 July and perhaps the highest battalion casualty list for a single day during the entire war Nearly 60 of the battalion s casualties were deaths 38 39 The 1 2nd and 2 2nd West Riding Brigades Royal Field Artillery TF had their headquarters at Valley Parade in Manningham with batteries at Bradford Halifax and Heckmondwike 40 The 1 2nd Brigade crossed to France with the 1 6th Battalion West Yorks in April 1915 These Territorial Force units were to remain close to each other throughout the war serving in the 49th West Riding Division 41 They were joined in 1917 by the 2 6th Battalion West Yorks and 2 2nd West Riding Brigade RFA serving in the 62nd 2nd West Riding Division 42 Recent history Bradford s Telegraph and Argus newspaper was involved in spearheading the news of the 1936 Abdication Crisis after the Bishop of Bradford publicly expressed doubts about Edward VIII s religious beliefs see Telegraph amp Argus 1936 Abdication Crisis Morrisons headquarters in Bradford After the Second World War migrants came from Poland and Ukraine and since the 1950s from Bangladesh India and particularly Pakistan 43 The textile industry has been in decline throughout the latter part of the 20th century A culture of innovation had been fundamental to Bradford s dominance with new textile technologies being invented in the city a prime example being the work of Samuel Lister This innovation culture continues today throughout Bradford s economy from automotive Kahn Design 44 to electronics Pace Micro Technology Wm Morrison Supermarkets was founded by William Morrison in 1899 initially as an egg and butter merchant in Rawson Market operating under the name of Wm Morrison Provisions Limited 45 The grandest of the mills no longer used for textile production is Lister s Mill the chimney of which can be seen from most places in Bradford It has become a beacon of regeneration after a 100 million conversion to apartment blocks by property developer Urban Splash 46 In 1989 copies of Salman Rushdie s The Satanic Verses were burnt in the city and a section of the Muslim community led a campaign against the book In July 2001 ethnic tensions led to rioting and a report described Bradford as fragmented 47 and a city of segregated ethnic communities 48 The Yorkshire Building Society opened its new headquarters in the city in 1992 49 In 2006 Wm Morrison Supermarkets opened its new headquarters in the city the firm employs more than 5 000 people in Bradford 50 In June 2009 Bradford became the world s first UNESCO City of Film and became part of the Creative Cities Network since then 51 The city has a long history of producing both films and the technology that produces moving film which includes the invention of the Cieroscope which took place in Manningham in 1896 52 In 2010 Provident Financial opened its new headquarters in the city The company has been based in the city since 1880 53 In 2012 the British Wool Marketing Board opened its new headquarters in the city 54 Also in 2012 Bradford City Park opened the park which cost 24 5 million to construct is a public space in the city centre which features numerous fountains and a mirror pool surrounded by benches and a walk way 55 In 2015 The Broadway opened the shopping and leisure complex in the centre of Bradford cost 260 million to build and is owned by Meyer Bergman GovernanceThis section needs to be updated Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information July 2016 See also City of Bradford Bradford is represented by three MPs for the constituencies of Bradford East Imran Hussain Labour Party Bradford South Judith Cummins Labour and Bradford West Naz Shah Labour Party Bradford was part of the Yorkshire and the Humber European constituency which elected six Members of the European Parliament MEPs using the D Hondt method of party list proportional representation until the UK exit from the European Union on 31 January 2020 In the final European Parliament election in 2019 29 9 of voters in Bradford chose the Brexit Party with 28 8 voting Labour and 14 1 voting Liberal Democrat The Conservatives only polled 6 7 and UKIP 3 7 56 LABOR OMNIA VINCIT The city played an important part in the early history of the Labour Party A mural on the back of the Bradford Playhouse visible from Leeds Road commemorates the centenary of the founding of the Independent Labour Party in 1893 and quotes its motto There is no weal save commonweal 57 The original Bradford Coat of Arms had the Latin words Labor omnia vincit below it meaning Work conquers all 58 A new coat of arms was emblazoned in 1976 after local government reorganisation in 1974 with the English motto Progress Industry Humanity GeographyBradford is located at 53 45 00 N 01 50 00 W 53 75000 N 1 83333 W 53 75000 1 83333 53 7500 1 8333 1 Topographically it is located in the eastern moorland region of the South Pennines Bradford is not built on any substantial body of water but is situated at the junction of three valleys one of them that of the Bradford Beck which rises in moorland to the west and is swelled by its tributaries the Horton Beck Westbrook Bowling Beck and Eastbrook At the site of the original ford the beck turns north and flows towards the River Aire at Shipley Bradfordale or Bradforddale is a name given to this valley see for example Firth 1997 1 It can be regarded as one of the Yorkshire Dales though as it passes through the city it is often not recognised as such The beck s course through the city centre is culverted and has been since the mid 19th century On the 1852 Ordnance Survey map 2 it is visible as far as Sun Bridge at the end of Tyrrell Street and then from beside Bradford Forster Square railway station on Kirkgate On the 1906 Ordnance Survey 3 it disappears at Tumbling Hill Street off Thornton Road and appears north of Cape Street off Valley Road though there are culverts as far as Queens Road The Bradford Canal built in 1774 linking the city to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal took its water from Bradford Beck and its tributaries The supply was often inadequate to feed the locks and the polluted state of the canal led to its temporary closure in 1866 the canal was closed in the early 20th century as uneconomic Geology The underlying geology of the city is primarily carboniferous sandstones These vary in quality from rough rock to fine honey coloured stone of building quality Access to this material has had a pronounced effect on the architecture of the city 59 The city also lies within the north western parts of the Yorkshire Coalfield which is mostly composed of carboniferous coal measures 60 Climate As with the vast majority of the UK Bradford experiences a maritime climate Koppen Cfb with limited seasonal temperature ranges and generally moderate rainfall throughout the year 61 Records have been collected since 1908 from the Met Office s weather station at Lister Park a short distance north of the city centre This constitutes one of the nation s longest unbroken records of daily data The full record can be found on the council s website 62 The weather station enclosure at Lister Park The absolute maximum temperature recorded was 37 9 C 100 2 F in July 2022 63 In an average year the warmest day should attain a temperature of 27 5 C 81 5 F 64 with a total of 6 days 65 rising to a maximum of 25 1 C 77 2 F or above The absolute minimum temperature recorded was 13 9 C 7 0 F during January 1940 The weather station s elevated suburban location means exceptionally low temperatures are unknown Typically 41 4 nights of the year will record an air frost citation needed Rainfall averages around 870 mm 34 in per year with over 1 mm falling on 139 days 66 Sunshine at little in excess of 1 250 hours per year is low as one would expect of an inland location in Northern England located amongst upland areas All averages refer to the 1981 2010 observation period citation needed Climate data for Bradford Lister Park a elevation 134 m 440 ft 1991 2020 normals extremes 1908 presentMonth Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec YearRecord high C F 14 6 58 3 18 4 65 1 21 7 71 1 23 9 75 0 26 7 80 1 30 0 86 0 37 9 100 2 32 2 90 0 27 2 81 0 25 6 78 1 17 1 62 8 15 8 60 4 37 9 100 2 Average high C F 6 8 44 2 7 4 45 3 9 5 49 1 12 5 54 5 15 7 60 3 18 2 64 8 20 4 68 7 19 8 67 6 17 2 63 0 13 4 56 1 9 6 49 3 7 2 45 0 13 1 55 6 Daily mean C F 4 3 39 7 4 6 40 3 6 2 43 2 8 6 47 5 11 5 52 7 14 2 57 6 16 3 61 3 15 9 60 6 13 5 56 3 10 3 50 5 6 8 44 2 4 6 40 3 9 7 49 5 Average low C F 1 8 35 2 1 8 35 2 2 9 37 2 4 7 40 5 7 2 45 0 10 1 50 2 12 2 54 0 12 0 53 6 9 9 49 8 7 1 44 8 4 1 39 4 2 0 35 6 6 3 43 3 Record low C F 13 9 7 0 13 3 8 1 11 1 12 0 10 6 12 9 3 0 26 6 0 6 33 1 5 0 41 0 2 8 37 0 0 3 32 5 4 1 24 6 7 8 18 0 13 1 8 4 13 9 7 0 Average precipitation mm inches 88 4 3 48 73 8 2 91 64 0 2 52 57 8 2 28 52 0 2 05 72 5 2 85 64 2 2 53 73 7 2 90 69 5 2 74 84 4 3 32 90 3 3 56 99 0 3 90 889 6 35 02 Average precipitation days 1 0 mm 14 4 12 1 11 3 10 6 9 9 10 1 10 3 11 5 10 7 12 5 14 3 14 5 142 1Mean monthly sunshine hours 43 2 67 7 105 2 142 1 173 3 159 4 167 2 156 1 122 8 89 7 54 9 38 0 1 319 4Source 1 Met Office b 67 Source 2 ECA amp D 68 Weather station is located 2 miles 3 km from the Bradford city centre Data was calculated from Met Office raw monthly long term data from 1991 2020 Green belt Further information South and West Yorkshire Green Belt Bradford is within a green belt region that extends into the borough and wider surrounding counties It is in place to reduce urban sprawl prevent the towns in the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation from further convergence protect the identity of outlying communities encourage brownfield reuse and preserve nearby countryside This is achieved by restricting inappropriate development within the designated areas and imposing stricter conditions on permitted building 69 The green belt surrounds the Bradford built up area separating towns and villages throughout the borough Larger outlying communities such as Bingley Wilsden Cottingley and Thornton are also exempt from the green belt area However nearby smaller villages hamlets and rural areas such as Brunthwaite Keelham Denholme Gate Laycock Esholt Micklethwaite Goose Eye Stanbury Hainworth Tong and Harecroft are washed over by the designation 69 Much semi rural land on the fringes is also included The area in 2017 amounted to some 23 890 hectares 238 9 km2 92 2 sq mi 70 A subsidiary aim of the green belt is to encourage recreation and leisure interests 69 with rural landscape features greenfield areas and facilities including Park Wood Northcliffe park and woods Heaton Woods Chellow Dene woods and reservoirs Horton Bank country park Norr Hill Gilstead recreation park Stone Circle remains by Shipley Glen Bracken Hall River Aire valley Leeds and Liverpool canal and the Leeds Country Way DemographyThis section may contain material unrelated or insufficiently related to the topic of the article the off topic material is the topic of another article City of Bradford Please help improve this section or discuss this issue on the talk page August 2011 Learn how and when to remove this template message Main article Demography of Bradford Population density in the Bradford Metropolitan District Council Area from the 2011 census At the 2011 UK census Bradford had a population of 522 452 71 There were 106 680 households in Bradford and the population density was 4 560 inhabitants per square kilometre 11 820 sq mi For every 100 females there were 92 9 males 72 Bradford has the youngest fastest growing population outside London 73 The census showed that of Bradford s total population 67 44 352 317 was White 26 83 140 149 Asian 2 48 12 979 Mixed Race 1 77 9 267 Black and 1 48 7 740 from other races 74 22 1 of the population are British South Asian included in the 26 83 Asian figure above the second highest percentage of South Asians in a single settlement in England and Wales behind the city of Leicester at 29 9 Nearly half of all Asians living in Yorkshire and the Humber live in Bradford with the central wards of Bradford Moor City Little Horton Manningham and Toller having large majority Asian populations whereas outlying wards of Bradford such as Thornton and Allerton Idle and Thackley Eccleshill Wibsey Wyke Clayton Wrose Tong and Royds have predominantly white populations 75 failed verification Bradford Ethnicity 2011 Census 76 Ethnic group Population White 352 317 67 5Asian or Asian British 140 149 26 8Mixed 12 979 2 5Black or Black British 9 267 1 8Arab 3 714 0 7Other Ethnic Group 4 026 0 8Total 522 452 100The Office for National Statistics Regional Trends report published in June 2009 showed that some parts of Bradford suffer from the highest levels of deprivation in the country while other areas of Bradford are some of the least deprived in the country 77 78 Infant mortality is double the national average 79 and life expectancy is slightly lower than in other parts of the district 80 The long term health study Born in Bradford studied more than 11 300 births in the city between 2007 2011 and found that the rate of birth defects was 3 nearly twice the national average of 1 7 81 The study found the leading cause was the rate of consanguineous marriage among British Pakistanis which had become more common than a generation earlier 81 82 In total of 5 127 children of Pakistani origin 37 had been born to married first cousins 81 The study also identified an increased risk for babies born to older women Among the white British group 19 of birth defects were associated with women over the age of 34 81 EconomySee also List of companies based in Bradford Bradford s textile industry has been in decline for many years and the city has suffered from de industrialisation Some areas of Bradford are among the worst levels of social deprivation in the UK 83 with widespread pockets of exclusion and rates of unemployment in some wards exceeding 25 47 though other areas of Bradford are among the least deprived in the UK 84 The economy is worth around 9 5 billion making Bradford s economy a major powerhouse in the region and is forecast to grow to more than 10 billion by 2018 85 contributing around 8 4 of the region s output and making the district the third largest after Leeds and Sheffield in Yorkshire amp Humber The economy has diversified and the city is home to several major companies notably in finance Yorkshire Building Society Provident Financial Santander UK textiles British Wool Marketing Board Bulmer and Lumb Group chemicals BASF Nufarm UK electronics Arris International Filtronic engineering NG Bailey Powell Switchgear and manufacturing Denso Marston Bailey Offsite Hallmark Cards UK and Seabrook Potato Crisps Supermarket chain Morrisons has its head office in Bradford as does water utility company Yorkshire Water 86 One of the city s biggest employers is Provident Financial plc a financial services group that specialises in Home Collected Credit HCC and owns Vanquis Bank which offers credit cards It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index The company was established in 1880 by Joshua Kelley Waddilove to provide affordable credit to families in West Yorkshire 87 better source needed It has moved into a 250 000 sq ft 23 000 m2 45 million flagship headquarters building in the city centre creating hundreds of jobs for the city The building also houses a 200 bed Jurys Inn hotel 88 In October 2011 Plans to regenerate Bradford city centre including the long delayed Broadway shopping centre was given a boost as Bradford Council secured 17 6 million of regional growth funding from the government which it will match to create a 35 million growth zone in which companies would get business rate relief in exchange for helping people get training and jobs 89 In April 2012 retail giant Freeman Grattan Holdings secured a deal to open a new head office and house around 300 staff in the centre of Bradford The mail order and online retailer will transfer office staff from its Lidget Green base where Grattan has had a presence since 1934 to a Grade II listed former wool warehouse on the edge of Little Germany 90 Shopping The Broadway The Broadway is the main retail shopping facility in Bradford It includes Marks and Spencer Next Superdry Schuh H amp M Khaadi Kiko brand Menkind among its over 70 units 91 Kirkgate Shopping Centre is located in Bradford city centre It includes Primark New Look Bank W H Smith Boots Boyes 92 SportsDirect com Deichmann and F Hinds in its 65 shops as well as an indoor market and 550 car parking spaces The centre has undergone a multimillion pound refurbishment recently and plans to upgrade the facade of the 1960s building have been submitted as it anticipates competition from the long awaited 260 million Westfield development which opened on 5 November 2015 93 94 95 96 In 2022 it was announced that the centre would eventually be demolished for the City Village development and that Primark would move to The Broadway replacing the old Debenhams unit 97 Forster Square Retail Park Forster Square Shopping Park opened in 1995 and is adjacent to the Forster Square Railway Station It includes over 20 large retail and food units including Next TK Maxx Harveys Asda Living Outfit Peacocks Clarks JD Sports Currys DFS Subway McDonald s and Costa Coffee 98 Sunbridge Wells is an underground retail complex it incorporates restaurants bars and retail units The complex is built in a series of Victorian tunnels situated in the centre of Bradford 99 LandmarksSee also List of Grade I listed buildings in City of Bradford Bolling Hall Bradford s oldest building is the cathedral which for most of its life was a parish church Few other Medieval buildings have survived apart from Bolling Hall which has been preserved as a museum The Wool Exchange Bradford There are some fine Victorian buildings apart from the abundance of mills there is the City Hall with statues of rulers of England unusually including Oliver Cromwell the former Wool Exchange and a large Victorian cemetery at Undercliffe Little Germany is a splendid Victorian commercial district just east of the city centre which takes its name from 19th century German Jewish immigrants who ran businesses from some of the many listed buildings Following decades of decay there have been successful conversions to office and residential use Paper Hall was saved from demolition and renovated in the 1990s and in mid 2005 renovation began on the prominent Eastbrook Hall in Little Germany This was opened as luxury apartments by Prince Charles in Autumn 2008 100 Bradford also has a number of architecturally historic hotels that date back to the establishment of the two railway lines into the city centre back in Victorian times The Victoria Hotel and the Midland Hotel were built to accommodate business travellers to the city during the height of the woollen trade In addition to Undercliffe Cemetery there are seven other cemeteries in Bradford located in Bowling Clayton North Bierley Thornton Queensbury Scholemoor Thornton and Tong as well as a number of Council operated cemeteries in Keighley Wharfedale and other parts of the district 101 Like many cities Bradford lost a number of notable buildings to developers in the 1960s and 1970s particularly mourned at the time were the Swan Arcade and the old Kirkgate Market In recent years some buildings from that era have themselves been demolished and replaced Provincial House next to Centenary Square was demolished by controlled explosion in 2002 102 and Forster House was pulled down in 2005 as part of the Broadway development High Point viewed from Bradford city centre The high rise High Point was built as the headquarters of the Yorkshire Building Society and completed in 1972 103 It is a prominent example of Brutalist architecture 104 It has been empty for several decades and various schemes have been proposed to bring it back into use 105 Bradford s main art gallery is housed in the grand Edwardian Cartwright Hall in Lister Park The National Science and Media Museum celebrates cinema and movies and is the most visited museum outside London It contains an Imax cinema the Cubby Broccoli Cinema and the Pictureville Cinema described by David Puttnam as the best cinema in Britain 106 The Bradford Alhambra frequently stages hit West End and Broadway musicals Also in the city is The St George s Hall a grand concert hall dating from 1853 making it the oldest concert hall in Britain and the third oldest in the whole of Europe citation needed The Alhambra theatre built in 1914 for theatre impresario Frank Laidler and later owned by the Moss Empire group Oswald Stoll and Edward Moss The theatre was refurbished in 1986 Within the city district there are 37 parks and gardens Lister Park with its boating lake and Mughal Water Gardens was voted Britain s Best Park for 2006 107 Bowling Park in East Bowling is the site of the annual Bradford Carnival celebrating local African and Caribbean culture Bradford City Park now home to the Bradford Festival which includes the Mela is a six acre 2 4 hectare public space in the heart of Bradford which contains the largest man made water feature in any UK city a 4 000 m2 43 000 sq ft mirror pool featuring more than 100 fountains including the tallest in any UK city at 30 m 100 ft When the mirror pool is drained City Park is capable of holding events such as carnivals markets theatre productions screenings and community festivals Work started on the 24 million project in February 2010 and City Park officially opened in March 2012 with thousands of people turning out for the grand opening event The Mirror Pool in City Park The Bradford Odeon formerly the Gaumont and New Victoria Theatre was built in 1930 as a music venue and cinema with a capacity of over 3 000 and was the largest UK cinema outside London at the time Another Odeon always part of the Odeon Cinemas chain was built in the city in 1938 and demolished in 1969 Standing in a conservation area adjacent to the listed Alhambra Theatre it closed in 2000 and was sold to developer Langtree with the intention it would be demolished and replaced with an apartment and office block The Odeon was the subject of much controversy over these proposals with public support in the form of a 10 000 signature petition and campaigns for its renovation In his successful by election campaign for Bradford West in March 2012 George Galloway cited the restoration of the Odeon as his number one priority later asking Prime Minister David Cameron to intervene 108 The architectural historian Jonathan Foyle actresses Imelda Staunton and Jenny Agutter and director Michael Winner all lent their support to the campaign Memorials Bradford War Memorial Bradford Victoria Cross Memorial Bradford Pals Headstone Bradford City Fire Memorial Bradford City of Peace Bhopal Workers Memorial Day Plaque Hiroshima amp Nagasaki Plaque Ukrainian Grove Jacobs Well 1932 Ukrainian Famine Memorial 1986 Chernobyl Disaster MemorialTransportIn past centuries Bradford s location in Bradfordale made transport difficult except from the north this is no longer a problem why Road Bradford was first connected to the developing turnpike network in 1734 citation needed when the first Yorkshire turnpike was built between Manchester and Leeds via Halifax and the city It is now accessed by trunk roads the A647 between Leeds and Halifax via Queensbury the A650 between Wakefield and Keighley the A658 to Harrogate and the A6036 to Halifax via Shelf The M606 a spur of the M62 motorway connects Bradford with the national motorway network Although originally planned to go directly into the city centre it ends at the city s ring road Buses Bradford trolleybus in Leeds Road Greengates May 1971 Bradford Interchange s bus end entrance On 20 June 1911 Britain s first trolleybus systems opened simultaneously in Bradford between Laisterdyke and Dudley Hill and in Leeds 109 The last service in Bradford and Britain ceased operation on 26 March 1972 109 110 Ten Bradford trolleybuses are preserved at the Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum 111 In 1974 Bradford s municipal buses were taken over by West Yorkshire Metro First Bradford and Arriva Yorkshire are the chief operators of buses in Bradford with some routes using guided buses Water The Bradford Canal was a 4 mile 6 4 km spur from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Shipley It was built to connect Bradford with the North Riding s limestone quarries the industrial towns on both sides of the Pennines and the ports of Liverpool and Goole The canal opened from 1774 until 1866 and 1871 until 1922 plans to rebuild it have existed Rail Bradford Forster Square railway station The Leeds and Bradford Railway opened Forster Square railway station on 1 July 1846 with a service via Shipley to Leeds The station was rebuilt in the early 1850s and again in 1890 and 1990 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway opened a station at Drake Street on 9 May 1850 between Manchester and Leeds The Great Northern Railway opened a third terminus at Adolphus Street in 1854 but the station was too far from the centre and the two companies built a joint station Bradford Exchange which opened in 1867 112 Adolphus Street remained as a goods terminal In 1973 Exchange station was rebuilt on a different site and in 1983 renamed Bradford Interchange and a bus station built alongside Forster Square and Bradford Interchange stations are part of the West Yorkshire Metro There have been many schemes to link between Bradford s railway terminals The major redevelopment of the city centre in the 1960s provided an opportunity to connect the termini this did not happen with large buildings constructed in the 1990s along the proposed line of route There is the great difference in elevation Bradford Interchange is at the end of a long steep slope and is much higher than Forster Square This gradient is not unprecedented in railway construction and the relocation of Forster Square further from the city centre provided additional space in which the transition could be accomplished A tram system was inaugurated by Bradford Corporation in 1882 At first the vehicles were horse drawn but were replaced by steam driven trams in 1883 and by electric vehicles in 1898 The system ran until 1950 113 Air The terminal building Leeds Bradford International Airport Leeds Bradford Airport is 6 miles 9 7 km to the north east of the city Bradford and Leeds councils jointly opened the airport in 1931 It is the home base of Jet2 com airlines In May 2007 the joint councils sold the airport to Bridgepoint Capital for 145 5 million 70 million would be invested in airport improvements by the company and expected to increase passenger usage to over 7 million by 2015 114 EducationSee also List of schools in Bradford Bradford Grammar School Bradford Grammar School was in existence near the parish church in the mid 16th century and re established by Royal Charter as the Free Grammar School of Charles II in 1662 115 University of Bradford The University of Bradford which has over 10 000 students received its Royal Charter in 1966 but traces its history to the 1860s when it was founded as the Bradford Schools of Weaving Design and Building The university now covers a wide range of subjects including technology and management science optometry pharmacy medical sciences nursing studies archaeology and modern languages Its Peace Studies department founded with Quaker support in 1973 was for a long time the only such institution in the UK In terms of nationally recognised leading areas of research there are various departments such as Institute of Cancer Therapeutics Bradford School of Pharmacy Peace Studies Archaeology Engineering Management Centre for Skin Sciences amongst others The university balances academic research and teaching quality with a strong tradition of social inclusion The University of Bradford was ranked second in the UK for graduate employment by the Times Higher Education Supplement in 2005 116 In December 2010 the university was named as the greenest in the UK for the second year running 117 The Old Building at Bradford College founded in 1832 The University of Bradford School of Management was in 2011 rated the 14th best business school in the UK by the Financial Times 118 Bradford College developed from the 19th century technical college whose buildings it inherited It offers further and higher educational courses and is an Associate College of Leeds Metropolitan University and is the UK s largest provider of higher education courses outside the university sector with 23 000 students and 1 800 staff 119 It absorbed the Art School whose most famous alumnus is David Hockney Whilst in Bradford after 1892 Margaret McMillan joined the Fabian Society and the Independent Labour Party Working with her sister Rachel she set about improving the welfare of children living in the slums and campaigned for free school meals A memorial college to Margaret McMillan was opened in 1952 120 Recent Ofsted reports rank many Bradford schools as amongst the UK s finest 119 Religion Bradford Cathedral one of the oldest churches in Bradford Two carved stones probably parts of a Saxon preaching cross were found on the site of Bradford Cathedral They indicate that Christians may have worshipped here since Paulinus of York came to the north of England in AD 627 on a mission to convert Northumbria He preached in Dewsbury and it was from there that Bradford was first evangelised The vicars of Bradford later paid dues to that parish The most prominent Christian church in Bradford is Bradford Cathedral originally the Parish Church of St Peter The parish was in existence by 1283 and there was a stone church on the rock shelf above Bradford Beck by 1327 The Diocese of Bradford was created from part of the Diocese of Ripon in 1919 and the church became a cathedral at that time Bradford has over 150 churches and chapels 121 Many of the Roman Catholic churches that are found within the city are a legacy of the large Irish population that migrated to Bradford in the 19th century citation needed The patron saint of Bradford is Saint Blaise because of his patronage of wool combing and his statue features on the Wool Exchange in the centre of the city There is also a statue of the saint in St Cuthbert s Catholic Church Wilmer Road also noted as the location of the famous Stations of the Cross by Eric Gill 122 123 The district has a tradition of nonconformity which is reflected in the number of chapels erected by Congregationalists Baptists and Methodists The city was a centre of the House Church movement in the 1980s and the Christian charity Christians Against Poverty was founded in the city Other house churches in the city include El Shaddai International Christian Centre and the World Outreach Church Bradford is also home to the LIFE Church UK a large nonconforming Church that has around 3 000 members 124 Interior of the Bradford Tree of Life Synagogue The Jewish community was strong in the middle to late 19th century and built Bradford Reform Synagogue in Manningham This The oldest reform synagogue outside London 125 was established by German Jews who had moved to Bradford for the wool trade According to historian Sharman Kadish The city of Bradford was unique in that it boasted a reform synagogue before it acquired an orthodox one 126 In 1881 Russian Jews made their home in Bradford having fled their homeland and founded an orthodox synagogue 127 In 2011 the Jewish population was 299 128 Bradford Grand Mosque on Horton Park Avenue Bradford Lakshmi Narayan Hindu Temple The city has a sizeable South Asian community and the Lakshmi Narayan mandir which opened in April 2008 129 is the largest Hindu temple in northern England 130 There is a Hindu temple and community centre on Thornton Lane 131 and smaller house based mandirs The city has about 100 mosques 132 among which are the Bradford Grand Mosque 133 and the Al Mahdi Mosque citation needed The Sikh community has six gurudwaras in the city The Sikh festival of Vaisakhi is celebrated on 14 April Sikhs travel to each of the gurudwaras in the city in a procession called a nagar kirtan 134 Bradford Religion 2011 Census 135 Religion Population Christian 239 843 45 9Muslim 129 041 24 7No Religion 108 027 20 7Undeclared 32 549 6 2Sikh 5 125 1 0Hindu 4 882 0 9Buddhist 1 000 0 2Jewish 299 0 1Other Religion 1 686 0 3Total 522 452 100CultureThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2022 Learn how and when to remove this template message The National Science and Media Museum hosts the Bradford International Film Festival annually in March In June 2009 Bradford was designated the world s first UNESCO City of Film for its links to the production and distribution of films its media and film museum and its cinematographic legacy Becoming the world s first City of Film is the ultimate celebration of Bradford s established and dynamic history in film and media said Colin Philpott director of Bradford s National Media Museum With the UNESCO City of Film designation Bradford will now go on to achieve inspirational projects in film Simon Beaufoy from Bradford the Oscar winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire said the city had played a crucial role in the story of cinema and deserved to be recognised 136 The National Science and Media Museum Bradford Bradford has developed a relationship with Bollywood hosting the International Indian Film Festival awards in 2007 The Bradford Animation Festival is the UK s longest running animation festival Held each November the festival hosts an array of screentalks workshops and special events The festival culminates in the annual BAF Awards which celebrate new animation from around the world 137 The Cottingley Fairy photographs taken by Elsie Wright and two of the cameras used are on display in the Kodak Gallery in the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford There are four theatres in Bradford The Alhambra also has a smaller studio theatre in the same complex These are operated by City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council The Theatre in the Mill is a small studio theatre at the University of Bradford which presents student and community shows and small scale touring professional work The Bradford Playhouse is a privately run venue with a medium sized proscenium theatre and a small studio Among the professional theatre companies based in Bradford are Kala Sangam the satirical madcap comedy troop Komedy Kollective Lost Dog based at Theatre in the Mill and Mind the Gap one of the longest established who have always worked with a mixture of disabled and able bodied performers Groups and organisations teaching theatre include The Asian Theatre School Bradford Stage and Theatre School and Stage 84 There are also a number of amateur theatre groups St George s Hall is a concert hall dating from 1853 making it the oldest concert hall in Britain and the third oldest in Europe citation needed Bradford Festival Choral Society was founded to perform at the inaugural Bradford Musical Festival that took place in August of that year 138 and the choir is still a part of the musical life of the city The Halle Orchestra have been regular visitors over the years as have a wide range of popular musicians bands entertainers comedians and theatrical productions In 2017 an 8 2 million renovation scheme of St George s Hall was started after completion it is planned for the concert venue to re open in late 2018 139 St George s Hall Cinemas have been replaced by vast entertainment complexes with multi screen cinemas The Leisure Exchange in the city centre has a 16 screen Cineworld At Thornbury on the outskirts is the Odeon Leeds Bradford with 13 screens which replaced the old Odeon next to the Alhambra which is the continuing focus of protests by Bradfordians who do not wish to see the old building demolished 140 The University of Bradford also has a cinema run by the Students Union operating from the university s Great Hall 141 Nightlife in Bradford has traditionally centred on Manor Row and Manningham Lane More recently several clubs and pubs have opened in the West End of Bradford around the Alhambra Theatre turning what was a previously fairly quiet area into one that is often crowded and vibrant at night North Parade has also seen several new themed bars open and is at the heart of the Independent Quarter of the city 142 Sunbridge Wells is an underground leisure and retail complex which opened in Bradford city centre in 2016 Sunny day at the City Park Bradford was one of the first areas of the UK to get a local commercial radio station Pennine Radio in September 1975 Today this is Pulse 1 and Greatest Hits Radio West Yorkshire As of 2006 update Bradford Community Broadcasting based in the city centre has broadcast on full time Community Radio licence around Bradford and the Aire Valley whilst the university radio station Ramair broadcasts to the student population Bradford s only television station AAP TV caters for Bradford s large Asian community The Telegraph and Argus is Bradford s daily newspaper published six days each week from Monday to Saturday The Bradford Mela is now part of the bigger Bradford Festival which takes place in June 143 The word mela is Sanskrit for a gathering or to meet In the UK melas provide an opportunity for communities to come together to celebrate and share their cultures Mela festivals include a combination of markets funfairs food and drink arts and workshops children s activities strolling entertainment and a variety of music and dance performances on a number of stages Bradford held the first mela in Europe in September 1988 and it is presently held in Bradford City Park Bradford City Park has the largest city centre water feature in the UK 144 Museums and art galleries Cartwright Hall Bradford is home to the acclaimed National Science and Media Museum previously the National Museum of Photography Film amp Television which celebrates cinema and movies and is the most visited museum outside London It contains the UK s first IMAX theatre the Cubby Broccoli Cinema and the Pictureville Cinema described by David Puttnam as the best cinema in Britain 106 Bradford Industrial Museum was established in 1974 at Moorside Mills a spinning mill in Eccleshill The Museum celebrates and explains the significant achievements in Bradford s industrial past from textiles and printing to the manufacture of motor cars 145 A mile from the city centre is Bolling Hall Museum a part medieval building which offers visitors a journey through the lives and times of the families for which it provided a home for over five hundred years Rooms are furnished and decorated to give a taste of life at different periods of the house s history 146 Bradford s main art gallery is housed in Cartwright Hall in Lister Park Bradford 1 Gallery is a city centre art gallery opened in October 2007 in a new building in Centenary Square The gallery shows four temporary exhibitions a year 147 The Bradford Museums amp Galleries has a collection items relating to Herbert Morley explorer and Mitch the printmaker 148 Impressions Gallery is an independent contemporary photography gallery with a temporary exhibitions programme showing on average six exhibitions each year The gallery moved from York to Centenary Square Bradford in 2007 Music Bradford is the home town of rock bands New Model Army Anti System Smokie Southern Death Cult The Cult The Scene Redwire Chantel McGregor One Minute Silence Scars on 45 Terrorvision My Dying Bride and hip hop group Fun Da Mental Singer songwriters Tasmin Archer Teddy Sinclair and Kiki Dee the first white British artist to be signed by Motown also hail from the city Since the 1980s Bradford has proved influential within the UK s punk rock scene primarily because of the 1 in 12 Club a music venue and anarchist workers cooperative and members club 1980s groups such as Sore Throat Anti System and late era Doom all based themselves around the club 149 as did 1990s groups such as Voorhees and Ironside 150 In 2002 Gareth Gates came second in the first series of Pop Idol and went on to achieve four UK number one singles before enjoying success in musical theatre Kimberly Walsh achieved major success after winning a place in the girl band Girls Aloud in Popstars The Rivals later in the same year and in 2010 Zayn Malik came third in The X Factor with his boy band One Direction who in March 2012 became the first British group to go straight to the top of the US music charts with their debut album 151 The guitar player and composer Allan Holdsworth was born in Bradford in 1946 152 Curry In 2013 Bradford was again crowned Curry Capital of Britain after seeing off other strong contenders such as Glasgow and Wolverhampton Bradford scored highly not just for the quality of food and service offered by each of the restaurants but also for food hygiene a deep understanding of the curry restaurant sector and its success in collectively raising funds for food charity The Curry Tree which seeks to alleviate the plight of the poor in South East Asia The judges were also particularly impressed by Bradford s International Food Academy and Jamie s Ministry of Food which teaches the districts residents how to cook quick simple healthy and cost effective meals 153 SportBradford has a long sporting tradition and Bradford Bulls formerly Bradford Northern is one of the most successful rugby league clubs in the world winning the World Club Championship three times since 2002 and seven times winners of the Rugby Football League Championship Bradford Bulls play at the Grattan Stadium Odsal formerly Odsal Stadium The city is also home to a number of rugby union clubs Bradford Salem are based in the Heaton area and Wibsey RFC can be found to the south of the city centre The Richard Dunn Sports Centre is located close to the Odsal and the sports facilities at the university are also open to the public at certain times Bradford City s Valley Parade football stadium Bradford City Football Club was formed in 1903 James Whyte a sub editor of the Bradford Observer met with Football Association representative John Brunt in January to discuss plans and in May Manningham RFC a rugby league team decided to change codes to association football 154 The Football League subsequently elected Bradford City to the league with a total of 30 votes to replace Doncaster Rovers 155 because it saw the invitation as a chance to introduce football to the rugby dominated county 156 Eight years after the club was elected to the league City won the FA Cup and recorded the highest league position in its history 157 They currently compete in Football League One the third tier of English football The ground suffered one of the worst all time sporting disasters after 56 people died at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985 158 A second club from the city Bradford Park Avenue played in the Football League until it dropped out in 1970 then went into liquidation in 1974 The club now plays in the National League North which means the Bradford derby has not been played in years Bradford Park Avenue hosted county cricket for Yorkshire as well as football The defunct Bradford Dukes speedway team raced at Odsal Speedway was staged at Greenfields Stadium in the pioneer days when it was known as the Autodrome in the early 1960s Odsal opened its doors in 1945 and continued in the late 1950s It entered a team in the 1960 Provincial League then fell dormant until the 1970s when it re opened The track staged a Speedway World Final The speedway team rode under a number of names probably the longest running was Bradford Northern in common with the Rugby League team This was changed to Bradford Barons emulating the more successful Halifax Dukes Eventually the Halifax team was brought to Bradford under the name Bradford Dukes Joe Johnson is a retired professional snooker player from Bradford who won the 1986 World Snooker Championship 159 Jasmin Atker is a Bradford student who captained the first England team in the international Street Child Cricket World Cup and was named one of the BBC 100 top inspiring women in 2019 160 The Bradford Dragons are the city s basketball team competing in the second tier English Basketball League Division 1 The team play their home games at Bradford College The city also has a history of skateboarding culture in Ian Glasper s 2012 book Armed with Anger the city was described as West Yorkshire s de facto skate capital 150 City of SanctuaryAfter a campaign in 2008 Bradford was recognised as a City of Sanctuary on 18 November 2010 Bradford is a place where a broad range of local organisations community groups and faith communities as well as local government are publicly committed to welcoming and including people seeking sanctuary The city has a history of welcoming newcomers from throughout the world An example of this was Bradford s purchase of the Carlton Hostel building in 1939 as part of a Kindertransport scheme made possible through donations from both Bradford s Jewish community and non Jews 161 to house German Jewish refugee children during the Second World War 162 163 Public services Bradford Royal Infirmary There are two major hospitals in Bradford Bradford Royal Infirmary and St Luke s Hospital Both are teaching hospitals and are operated by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS trust Over the years the Trust has subsumed a number of smaller hospitals these include Woodlands Orthopaedic Hospital Northern View and Bierley Hall Bradford is the focus of one of the UK s largest ever birth cohort studies known as Born in Bradford Partly supported by European funding it is the result of close collaboration between the University of Bradford the NHS and other institutions in West Yorkshire It will track the lives of all the babies born in the city from 2006 to 2008 and aims to provide a wealth of data allowing health researchers the opportunity to investigate many different aspects of health and wellbeing CrimeBradford has been the scene of some high profile crimes such as the shooting of Bradford PC Sharon Beshenivsky while responding to a burglary in the city 164 In May 2010 Stephen Griffiths was charged with the Bradford murders 165 The Manningham Riot occurred between 10 and 12 June 1995 in Manningham and the 2001 Bradford race riots began on 7 July 2001 as a result of tension between ethnic minority communities and the city s white majority stoked by the Anti Nazi League and the National Front 166 167 There were 297 arrests 187 people charged with riot 45 with violent disorder leading to 200 jail sentences totalling 604 years 168 BradfordiansMain article List of people from Bradford Only a few particularly notable names are listed here Sir William Rothenstein photo by George Charles Beresford 1902 Among Bradford born people who made significant contributions to the arts were David Hockney painter draughtsman printmaker stage designer and photographer who was born in the city and educated at Bradford Grammar School 169 Frederick Delius 1862 1934 was a composer born to a family of German descent in the city 170 and J B Priestley 1894 1984 was a novelist and playwright Sir William Rothenstein was a painter draughtsman and writer on art who was principal of the Royal College of Art from 1920 to 1935 171 In the genre of classical music Rodney Friend is an English violinist born 1940 in 1964 he became the youngest ever leader of the London Philharmonic Orchestra 172 In the field of science and medicine Friederich Wilhelm Eurich 1867 1945 professor of forensic medicine and bacteriologist did much to conquer anthrax in the wool trade Sir Edward Appleton Sir Edward Appleton 1892 1965 discoverer of the ionosphere was a Nobel Prize winner 173 Robert Turner 1923 1990 was a pathologist who came to Bradford from Belfast and pioneered the use of chemotherapy in the treatment of cancer at the Bradford Royal Infirmary In the field of industry Sir Jacob Behrens 1806 1889 was an Anglo German textile merchant who was instrumental in Bradford becoming a major exporter of woollen goods 174 A social reformer who campaigned against child labour Richard Oastler 1789 1861 is commemorated by a statue in Northgate 175 and the Oastler Shopping Centre located close to the Kirkgate Shopping Centre W E Forster 1818 1886 was MP for Bradford and commemorated by statue is the namesake of Forster Square 176 In recent pop culture the former participant of The X Factor Zayn Malik former member of successful 177 178 boy band One Direction was born and raised in Bradford 179 American film star Aasif Mandvi grew up in Bradford 180 In popular cultureThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed February 2015 Learn how and when to remove this template message The city has a rich heritage in film production and many films and TV productions have been filmed in the city Films using Bradford as a location include Room at the Top 1959 Billy Liar 1963 The Railway Children 1970 a children s film shot around Haworth including the Bronte Parsonage Yanks 1979 starring Richard Gere Monty Python s The Meaning of Life 1983 with footage filmed in Lister Park 181 FairyTale A True Story 1997 starring Harvey Keitel based on the story of the Cottingley Fairies and East is East 1997 in which Oak Lane is shown when the family visit the city 182 The Buttershaw area of the city featured in the film Rita Sue and Bob Too 1987 in which two 16 year old girls were involved in a love triangle with a wealthy married man played by George Costigan The film was created by local Andrea Dunbar and was initially unpopular with local residents due to its negative image of the area but has since earned itself a good reputation in the local community as Buttershaw s claim to fame 183 184 The award winning 2013 film The Selfish Giant takes place in and around Bradford 185 In the BBC political satire The Amazing Mrs Pritchard 2006 the Prime Minister considers a proposal to move Parliament to Bradford as it is closer to the geographic centre of the country than London The 2008 Spooks spin off for BBC Three Spooks Code 9 was filmed in the city 186 as were the television adaptation of the Red Riding works by David Peace first broadcast in 2009 187 Bradford was the focus of a 2012 Channel 4 documentary Make Bradford British which examined the level of integration between the city s Christian and Muslim communities 188 Series 2 of The Syndicate which aired in 2013 on BBC One featured a syndicate involving workers at a public hospital in Bradford Scenes for the second season of All Creatures Great and Small were filmed in Little Germany in April 2021 featuring child and adult actors from the theatre school Articulate 189 Bradford features under the name of Broadbeck in the best selling 1912 novel Windyridge by Bradford novelist Willie Riley 190 Link the main character of the 1993 novel Stone Cold is from Bradford citation needed International relationsBradford is twinned with a number of 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