Bradford was really nice up to and during the 70s with its ABC Cinema and the Odeon twin cinemas next the Alhambra. Then it went downhill with multiple demolitions, it lost its beautiful library near the Media Museum, the ABC went and the Odeon became a disused major eyesore. Never go anywhere near it now.
Bradford born and bred, raised all 8 of my children here, 16 grandchildren, it really is a great place to live, but then again Yorkshire itself is great
Great to hear! Bradford is a great city with so much great history to be proud of, as is of course the case with Yorkshire as a whole :) Thanks for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Sadly, I am unable to agree with many of the comments on here: I was raised in Bradford in the 50's, 60's and 70's and left the city in 1984. Back in the 70's I remember smart department stores such as Brown Muffs and Busbys, upmarket clothes shops, classy jewellers and quality furniture stores ect. I also remember my my father stating how Bradford was heading for bad times. The business rates were sky high pushing business away at a time when they should have been attracting new business due to the demise of the textile industry. The highway infrastructure was archaic compared to say Leeds and instead of investing in refurbishing Victorian arcades, Kirkgate Market and other beautiful old buildings, they bulldozed them down to be replaced with characterless concrete structures only to pull many of those same buildings down a number of years later. Once smart suburbs with neat gardens and nice respectable local shops are now scruffy and unkempt and replaced with tacky takeaways or boarded up. The metropolitan population of Bradford is 528,000, yet I know of no other city of comparable size in Britain that has such a small shopping centre, I now live in Lincoln which has only 120,000 people in its region yet the shopping centre is twice the size. A few years ago I revisited the city centre for nostalgic reasons and I was both shocked and extremely sad at the demise of the place. I still get back there now and then to visit family and driving through the ring road from the M606 to the outer suburbs, most of what I see is nothing short of depravity. ' Bradford was once one of the richest cities in Britain per head of population, now it's one of the poorest. Some people in influential places who made decisions about the future of the city have a great deal to answer for, although many will now be deceased. The legend of the ghost at Bolling Hall who appeared just before the city was attacked in the Civil War in 1642 who said " Pity poor Bradford" possibly wasn't referring to the imminent attack after all!
I agree with your comments. Leeds is a far superior city and enjoyed more investment. I was born and raised nearby in Batley and Birkenshaw area and seen it’s demise. It once boasted two railways stations and visited Foster Square many times but it’s all gone. The city center looks scruffy compared to Leeds and that’s a crying shame. And now with global warming how the old trolley buses would be a welcome sight now. All gone. A city that desperately needs huge investment to attract new industries, commerce and retail. It’s a tall order.
@@davidwilliams5863 Blinkered? It'll take more than cycle routes, a pedestrian link to the interchange and park and ride to regain it's prosperity. As for the "gems" most of those bar a few have been bulldozed. The blinkered and some say corrupt ideas of the past city fathers are why Bradford has imploded into such a depressing and deprived city.
@@brythonicman3267 just enjoy the walking tour & spare us all your depressing comments. If your want to witness depravity go to the third world. Then you will know the meaning of the word.
Many thanks for taking the time to film and upload this. Bradford born and bred, but left in 1977 when I was 17. I have travelled all around the world since then and have lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2013. This brought back many memories. I still recognise many of the places I visited as a young lad, although clearly some serious remodelling of parts of the city centre. Great to watch and read the commentary.
Many thanks to you for watching! I'm really glad to hear the video brought back some memories of Bradford - but as you say it's interesting to see how they've changed up the city centre over the years :)
Bradford has some stunning architecture. Over 6,000 listed buildings. Thanks for the video, brilliant. The Broadway is doing well, attracting lots of shoppers.
I can understand the sadness people feel about the wanton destruction of beauty in Bradford having been shown pictures of the "old" Bradford e.g. the old Kirkgate market. Also listening to people talk about places like the Marshall and Snelgrove arcade and Busby's up on Manningham Lane. I remember when the "60's eyesores"were pulled down in 2004 and an international street market was held not long after - with the smell of garlic and oregano around me and continental outside dining tables with people laughing and chattering I saw what Bradford could be.
You're very right to! The history of Bradford is certainly something to be proud of - and it's a city which keeps reinventing itself brilliantly as the years go on :) Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
Absolutely! A city that keeps its heritage on display is always one to be proud of, but Bradford is doing a good job now of celebrating its architectural heritage :) Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Another great walk. Thank you for that. Must admit I was disappointed with that woman at 35.12 throwing garbage on the pavement. What makes people think it's okay to do that?
I used to live on Manningham Lane and Thackery Road in Bradford. I don't think the terraced houses I lived at on Manningham Lane are there anymore. I do remember them cleaning a few buildings of all the soot, I hate to think what the ratio of people were that had respiration diseases were back in the day. Left Bradford in 1977 aged 14.
It's very true that there are some harsher effects of the city's industrial legacy, but Bradford has really grown strongly in the modern age, and its buildings are even prettier now cleaned of soot :)
I like Bradford, usually stay there for about four days two or three times each year, but not since the virus struck; maybe again later this year. You didn’t mention the old Odeon building, what’s happening to it now? Also didn’t show the memorial to the victims of the Bradford City stadium fire. I can recommend the fish and chip shop near the City Hall.
Thank you for watching! I'm sorry I didn't mention the old Odeon - there's just so much of note in Bradford! My research tells me that it's now used as a live music venue, having been disused for a number of years in the 2000s. My apologies for not showing the memorial for the Bradford City fire, but it's absolutely an important part of the city's history. Thank you very for the feedback :) Also the fish & chips sound nice!
Also Sunbridge Wells that you walked past. That is quite surprising inside! Not visited Bradford for a while but I had the best mocktail ever in there. Seemed to be a mixture of history with bars, stalls and shops partially underground when I visited it
SUPER MERCI POUR CETTE TRÈS AGRÉABLE PROMENADE DANS CETTE SYMPATHIQUE CITÉ MODERNE ET ANCIENNE À LA LUMINOSITÉ ÉCLATANTE !.. SON HISTOIRE EST CAPTIVANTE ET LES MONUMENTS SONT SPLENDIDES EN PARTICULIER L' ALHAMBRA !.. TRÈS BELLE JOURNÉE LET'S WALK !.. P.S : OH C'EST GÉNIAL Y'A UNE TRADUCTION EN FRANÇAIS DANS LES COMMENTAIRES DONT CERTAINS SONT POIGNANTS D'AILLEURS !..
Nice walk in the town of Bradford. I enjoyed it very much your walks. There always wonderful and historical. We have a town also in Ontario called Bradford. It's the suburbs of the city of Toronto and the city of mississauga. Can't wait to see more of your walks tomorrow. Have you ever been to Manchester England?, I heard it's a great place to visit. Have a great day 😀😊
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the walk around Bradford - one of Britain's grandest cities :) I'll have to make it over to Bradford in Ontario in the future perhaps - it would be interesting to contrast and compare the two! I have indeed visited Manchester many times before - it's a very impressive and lively city!
@@LetsWalkUK Bradford Ontario is a little different. There are new buildings. In mississauga and Toronto. We have all new buildings of the 21 century. Canada is an interesting historical place to visit. You'll enjoy everything if you come visit one day. Great places to see in Canada
I think Claremont was also where the famous Classical composer Frederick Delius and family lived at 1-3 Claremont Road. It's to the right hand side of where you were walking, in the nicer looking large houses. Delius was born at number six for some unknown reason.
lots of fascinating history in Bradford you should visit (maybe you have already!) Bolling Halll and Cartwright Hallh in LIster Park has a wonderful section devoted to David Hockney who was a pupil at Bradford Grammar SChool which is on the opposite side of LIster park
I hope this video did your home city justice! It's a great city with a lot more history and heritage than first meets the eye - thank you so much for watching :)
thanks for your wonderful tour. Much maligned by the media, Bradford is a growing awesome city which will surely regain its position in the league of the great cities
@@LetsWalkUK indeed, despite what some trolls and gremlins wrote day in day out in papers and local media describing it as a shithole, I went there and visited Bradford. It was well before the current regeneration wave, quite a long ago, soon after buying a book about the city´s architecture and everyday life. And I enjoyed it. It is got some magnificent suburbs as well, with splendid houses and parkland, awesome victorian cemeteries and world class heritage sites like Haworth and Saltaire, which is unique. What do Gothemburg, Frankfurt, Lille or Rotterdam have? Regards
@@sarribel Very much so! The city centre is great and the towns further afield like Shipley, Silsden, Saltaire as you say are lovely. Lots of history and always worth a visit!
I've been living in Bradford since 2006, I moved up here after meeting my wife
Mate get yourself to Leeds do yourself a favour
@@StaaaaNzHD Nah we're staying in Bradford, we're even raising our kids here
Bradford was really nice up to and during the 70s with its ABC Cinema and the Odeon twin cinemas next the Alhambra. Then it went downhill with multiple demolitions, it lost its beautiful library near the Media Museum, the ABC went and the Odeon became a disused major eyesore. Never go anywhere near it now.
The demise of that once amazing library is indictive of the pattern of continued decline that Bradford has undergone over the years.
Bradford born and bred, raised all 8 of my children here, 16 grandchildren, it really is a great place to live, but then again Yorkshire itself is great
Great to hear! Bradford is a great city with so much great history to be proud of, as is of course the case with Yorkshire as a whole :)
Thanks for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
@@leeandrewprice8480 come to Leeds Charva way better than Bradford lad
It’s a shit hole
It's Muslim
Sadly, I am unable to agree with many of the comments on here: I was raised in Bradford in the 50's, 60's and 70's and left the city in 1984. Back in the 70's I remember smart department stores such as Brown Muffs and Busbys, upmarket clothes shops, classy jewellers and quality furniture stores ect. I also remember my my father stating how Bradford was heading for bad times. The business rates were sky high pushing business away at a time when they should have been attracting new business due to the demise of the textile industry. The highway infrastructure was archaic compared to say Leeds and instead of investing in refurbishing Victorian arcades, Kirkgate Market and other beautiful old buildings, they bulldozed them down to be replaced with characterless concrete structures only to pull many of those same buildings down a number of years later. Once smart suburbs with neat gardens and nice respectable local shops are now scruffy and unkempt and replaced with tacky takeaways or boarded up.
The metropolitan population of Bradford is 528,000, yet I know of no other city of comparable size in Britain that has such a small shopping centre, I now live in Lincoln which has only 120,000 people in its region yet the shopping centre is twice the size. A few years ago I revisited the city centre for nostalgic reasons and I was both shocked and extremely sad at the demise of the place. I still get back there now and then to visit family and driving through the ring road from the M606 to the outer suburbs, most of what I see is nothing short of depravity. '
Bradford was once one of the richest cities in Britain per head of population, now it's one of the poorest. Some people in influential places who made decisions about the future of the city have a great deal to answer for, although many will now be deceased. The legend of the ghost at Bolling Hall who appeared just before the city was attacked in the Civil War in 1642 who said " Pity poor Bradford" possibly wasn't referring to the imminent attack after all!
I agree with your comments. Leeds is a far superior city and enjoyed more investment. I was born and raised nearby in Batley and Birkenshaw area and seen it’s demise. It once boasted two railways stations and visited Foster Square many times but it’s all gone. The city center looks scruffy compared to Leeds and that’s a crying shame. And now with global warming how the old trolley buses would be a welcome sight now. All gone. A city that desperately needs huge investment to attract new industries, commerce and retail. It’s a tall order.
Very blinkered view, there is so many gems & regeneration is on the move in the right direction.
@@davidwilliams5863 Blinkered? It'll take more than cycle routes, a pedestrian link to the interchange and park and ride to regain it's prosperity. As for the "gems" most of those bar a few have been bulldozed. The blinkered and some say corrupt ideas of the past city fathers are why Bradford has imploded into such a depressing and deprived city.
@@brythonicman3267 just enjoy the walking tour & spare us all your depressing comments.
If your want to witness depravity go to the third world.
Then you will know the meaning of the word.
Bradford city centre is great. Some fantastic work being done regenerating the city. Thanks for the lovely video of my home town.
Always hated the grey 60s buildings including the kirkgate centre. Should have kept the original 🙄
Where are all the people. A different picture you will see mid morning Monday
I don’t think being nicknamed “Bradistan” is a compliment mate.
It's a ghetto and run by these people. I luckily moved away from this awful place 25 years ago to Cornwall.
I’m just about to move to Bradford from East Anglia so this has been very useful. Thank you.
DON'T!!!!!!!!!!
@@davidgaunt2912 Too late, here already. Fresh start, loving it so far.
Wow! You've just made a terrible mistake! Bradford is a violent disgusting place....
@@colinrobinson8930 Nobody makes a "Fresh Start' in Bradford......unless you're an ex-convict......
Many thanks for taking the time to film and upload this. Bradford born and bred, but left in 1977 when I was 17. I have travelled all around the world since then and have lived in Melbourne, Australia since 2013. This brought back many memories. I still recognise many of the places I visited as a young lad, although clearly some serious remodelling of parts of the city centre. Great to watch and read the commentary.
Many thanks to you for watching! I'm really glad to hear the video brought back some memories of Bradford - but as you say it's interesting to see how they've changed up the city centre over the years :)
Bradford has some stunning architecture. Over 6,000 listed buildings. Thanks for the video, brilliant. The Broadway is doing well, attracting lots of shoppers.
Well done for filming on a sunny day, it makes the stunning victorian locally mined sand stone buildings look so much better...
I can understand the sadness people feel about the wanton destruction of beauty in Bradford having been shown pictures of the "old" Bradford e.g. the old Kirkgate market. Also listening to people talk about places like the Marshall and Snelgrove arcade and Busby's up on Manningham Lane. I remember when the "60's eyesores"were pulled down in 2004 and an international street market was held not long after - with the smell of garlic and oregano around me and continental outside dining tables with people laughing and chattering I saw what Bradford could be.
I love this place 🥰❤️❤️❤️🤩
You're very right to! The history of Bradford is certainly something to be proud of - and it's a city which keeps reinventing itself brilliantly as the years go on :)
Thank you so much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video!
I like Bradford.but I'm from Kashmir 🇵🇰
Ok
I love Bradford 💜
No good place
I wish Busbys was still around even if it meant evolving over time. A great many buildings knocked down in Bradford
Absolutely! A city that keeps its heritage on display is always one to be proud of, but Bradford is doing a good job now of celebrating its architectural heritage :)
Thank you so much for watching - I really hope you enjoyed the video!
Another great walk. Thank you for that. Must admit I was disappointed with that woman at 35.12 throwing garbage on the pavement. What makes people think it's okay to do that?
Thank you very much for watching - Bradford is a great city with so much to see, and is always changing and improving in the modern era :)
Fontastic walk with my city I live in Bradford
I used to live on Manningham Lane and Thackery Road in Bradford. I don't think the terraced houses I lived at on Manningham Lane are there anymore. I do remember them cleaning a few buildings of all the soot, I hate to think what the ratio of people were that had respiration diseases were back in the day. Left Bradford in 1977 aged 14.
It's very true that there are some harsher effects of the city's industrial legacy, but Bradford has really grown strongly in the modern age, and its buildings are even prettier now cleaned of soot :)
I like Bradford, usually stay there for about four days two or three times each year, but not since the virus struck; maybe again later this year. You didn’t mention the old Odeon building, what’s happening to it now? Also didn’t show the memorial to the victims of the Bradford City stadium fire.
I can recommend the fish and chip shop near the City Hall.
Thank you for watching! I'm sorry I didn't mention the old Odeon - there's just so much of note in Bradford! My research tells me that it's now used as a live music venue, having been disused for a number of years in the 2000s.
My apologies for not showing the memorial for the Bradford City fire, but it's absolutely an important part of the city's history. Thank you very for the feedback :)
Also the fish & chips sound nice!
Also Sunbridge Wells that you walked past. That is quite surprising inside! Not visited Bradford for a while but I had the best mocktail ever in there. Seemed to be a mixture of history with bars, stalls and shops partially underground when I visited it
SUPER MERCI POUR CETTE TRÈS AGRÉABLE PROMENADE DANS CETTE SYMPATHIQUE CITÉ MODERNE ET ANCIENNE À LA LUMINOSITÉ ÉCLATANTE !.. SON HISTOIRE EST CAPTIVANTE ET LES MONUMENTS SONT SPLENDIDES EN PARTICULIER L' ALHAMBRA !.. TRÈS BELLE JOURNÉE LET'S WALK !.. P.S : OH C'EST GÉNIAL Y'A UNE TRADUCTION EN FRANÇAIS DANS LES COMMENTAIRES DONT CERTAINS SONT POIGNANTS D'AILLEURS !..
Nice walk in the town of Bradford. I enjoyed it very much your walks. There always wonderful and historical. We have a town also in Ontario called Bradford. It's the suburbs of the city of Toronto and the city of mississauga. Can't wait to see more of your walks tomorrow. Have you ever been to Manchester England?, I heard it's a great place to visit. Have a great day 😀😊
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the walk around Bradford - one of Britain's grandest cities :) I'll have to make it over to Bradford in Ontario in the future perhaps - it would be interesting to contrast and compare the two!
I have indeed visited Manchester many times before - it's a very impressive and lively city!
@@LetsWalkUK Bradford Ontario is a little different. There are new buildings. In mississauga and Toronto. We have all new buildings of the 21 century. Canada is an interesting historical place to visit. You'll enjoy everything if you come visit one day. Great places to see in Canada
Really amazing beautifully explained
Thanks for sharing this
I think Claremont was also where the famous Classical composer Frederick Delius and family lived at 1-3 Claremont Road. It's to the right hand side of where you were walking, in the nicer looking large houses. Delius was born at number six for some unknown reason.
My home town. Thanks for upload.
You're welcome! And thank you very much for watching - I'm really glad you enjoyed the video :)
Muslim city
Bradford, 75% british white.
lots of fascinating history in Bradford you should visit (maybe you have already!) Bolling Halll and Cartwright Hallh in LIster Park has a wonderful section devoted to David Hockney who was a pupil at Bradford Grammar SChool which is on the opposite side of LIster park
Bradford is my home
I live in Bradford
I hope this video did your home city justice! It's a great city with a lot more history and heritage than first meets the eye - thank you so much for watching :)
He misses alot of important buildings like the Bradford Canal Company building.
thanks for your wonderful tour. Much maligned by the media, Bradford is a growing awesome city which will surely regain its position in the league of the great cities
It is a great city indeed - it's certainly had a rocky history but there's no denying that it's one of the best places to visit in England :)
@@LetsWalkUK indeed, despite what some trolls and gremlins wrote day in day out in papers and local media describing it as a shithole, I went there and visited Bradford. It was well before the current regeneration wave, quite a long ago, soon after buying a book about the city´s architecture and everyday life. And I enjoyed it. It is got some magnificent suburbs as well, with splendid houses and parkland, awesome victorian cemeteries and world class heritage sites like Haworth and Saltaire, which is unique. What do Gothemburg, Frankfurt, Lille or Rotterdam have? Regards
@@sarribel Very much so! The city centre is great and the towns further afield like Shipley, Silsden, Saltaire as you say are lovely. Lots of history and always worth a visit!
@@LetsWalkUK let´s keep on walking Then!!
Wouldn’t dub Bradford as ‘awesome’. Deprived City if anything.
Very nice sharing friend .visit to my home
Thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked the video - Bradford is a great city indeed :)
Great video of the city fabulous
Thank you! I'm really glad you liked the video - Bradford is a great city indeed :)
I was there two years ago...nice place
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I’m in bradford
I love going there
I go to browdway