All About Bradford

Welcome to All About Bradford - a website dedicated to Bradford from now to the good old days! Have a look through our massive photo collection and our stories and look back at some of your most cherished memories of the Bradford days!

All you need for this site is a cuppa in one hand and a free hour to look back at the Bradford memories!

Bradford City Centre 1970s

NEW BRADFORD CREST

Bradford became a borough in 1847.

In 1889 it was raised to County Borough.

In 1897 (Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Year) Bradford was granted the status of a city.

In 1974, Bradford became a Metropolitan District Council.

Bradford City Hall

Phil talking to the former Lord Mayor showing him some pictures from the All About Bradford website

City Hall in 2009

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The Bradford accent is famous around England for missing letters of the alphabet. E.g. Bradford has added a T and U and missed the O and R to make "Bratfud". Another couple of examples are the villages of Allerton which starts with the O sound "Ollerton" and Wibsey which replaced the B with a P "Wipsey". Shops such as M&S and Boots have added 'is' on the end. M&S is Marksis and Boots is Bootsis.

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Polish Anna

"One of Bradford's more colourful characters from Poland..."

Little Germany in 2009

Bit of Bradford History

"The Brigantes" were recorded in history as the aboriginal inhabitants of the Bradford area.

In Saxon times Bradford was a small village by a river crossing called a ford, Brad meant Broad. It became known as the village with the Broad Ford. As the village began to grow, the people were allowed to have a weekly market. And it soon became a busy town.

In the Domesday book 1086, Bradford had less than 1000 people.

A man of Norse descent named Gamel was the biggest land owner at the time.

Gamel