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Collectively, this research has helped to empower community stakeholders and assisted the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council to plan and deliver blue and green infrastructure projects to achieve better public health outcomes for our communities.
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- Free school dinners. Scotch barley broth was spooned out at Green Lane Primary by head teacher Jonathan Priestley, father of Bradford writer JB Priestley.
- The Bradford sling. Prof David Sharpe demonstrating the Bradford sling with BBC Countryfile's John Craven. Prof David Sharpe was a newly-qualified plastic surgeon when a fire broke out at Bradford City's Valley Parade ground on 11 May 1985, killing 56 people.
- An infamous hoax. Image caption, Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was convinced the photographs were genuine. After borrowing her father's camera, teenager Elsie Wright and her young cousin Frances used paper cut-outs and hatpins to create some "supernatural" friends.
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Historic England has created a new heritage trail of Bradford, allowing young people to explore some of the city’s most important historic buildings. The trail has been developed as part of Historic England’s Heritage Schools Programme in celebration of Bradford’s status as City of Culture 2025.
Bradford Through Time. 1. Ancient Britain (Before 410. ad. Archaeologists tell us that, as early as prehistoric times, people were living in the moorlands surrounding what we know today as Bradford. These people would have been hunters and gatherers and later, the first. farmers.
It was into this city that Derek A J Lister was born in Walden Drive, off Haworth Road, on May 2, 1938. Its defining characteristics were more-or-less still intact when he left it on October...
Mar 14, 2021 · Bradford began as a village by a ford. Brad meant broad. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village by the broad ford had grown quite large (by the standards of the time) with perhaps 300-350 people. Bradford was turned into a town when the villagers were allowed to hold a weekly market.
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Mar 26, 2021 · Bradford was named Britain’s Curry Capital of Britain six years in a row. The city picked up the prestigious prize every year between 2011 and 2016. Akbar’s at Thornbury, Aakash in...
