I go past this building practically every day .. and it upsets me .. seeing what they are doing to it!! I have many special memories of that place .. stretching back over 30 years .. I met Freddie Garrity there .. way back in the 60's .. i think i was about 6 yrs old :) .. In the early 70's .. as a young teenager .. i used to sneak around the back .. and i would be let in via the fire exit :) ( How many more people did that? :) ) .. This building holds so many memories ..
Most of it is superficial and repairable. It will be replaced with something we don't need, there are several half empty hotels in Bradford, why do we need another? Give the people of Bradford what they want, and we want it saving.
Its a well known PR technique that if you want to get rid of a building you make it look as unattractive as possible in order to get public support for your ideas. This was frequently done with railway branchlines back in the 60s. Has anyone asked why the pipes are cut? Did they just wear out? Did someone carrying a scythe accidentally bump into them? Were they nibbled by big mice? Or ---- did someone know precisely what cutting those pipes would do???
Hi I'm desperate to do some photography in the building and really gain some publicity to what a fantastic site it is...did you get this footage? I'd really appreciate some advice as to how you get in and get footage of such a historic and treasured building..
surely it would be really cheap just to repair those pipes? The owners know about it and they could easily fix it. If this building was in Doncaster it would already have been knocked down - planning permission to demolish the Gaumont just a year after it closed.
I find it disgusting that although people are campaining to keep this building and are genuinely passionate about it , the council and yorkshire forward continue to completely disregard the publics views. I expect the same thing happened in the sixties when they pulled down all the lovely stone buildings to make way for those awful prefab buildings.
English people are too unempowered to do anything relying on fucking council n think sending them loads of mail and petitions is gonna do shit. Get real have a proper plan, the local people make things happen no one else. MY PROPOSAL; start a organisation made by and for the people of Bradford, raise money from people all people over bradford and then buy the damn building back....everyone roll up the sleeves and get to work on restoring and then turn it into a music venue called the Brad Pi
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I go past this building practically every day .. and it upsets me .. seeing what they are doing to it!!
I have many special memories of that place .. stretching back over 30 years ..
I met Freddie Garrity there .. way back in the 60's .. i think i was about 6 yrs old :) ..
In the early 70's .. as a young teenager .. i used to sneak around the back .. and i would be let in via the fire exit :) ( How many more people did that? :) ) ..
This building holds so many memories ..
as an Expat "old Bradfordian" I'm interested un the fate of this venerable building where I SPENT MANY A HAPPY HOUR. Keep me updated. Albert Denzler
Most of it is superficial and repairable.
It will be replaced with something we don't need, there are several half empty hotels in Bradford, why do we need another?
Give the people of Bradford what they want, and we want it saving.
Its a well known PR technique that if you want to get rid of a building you make it look as unattractive as possible in order to get public support for your ideas. This was frequently done with railway branchlines back in the 60s.
Has anyone asked why the pipes are cut? Did they just wear out? Did someone carrying a scythe accidentally bump into them? Were they nibbled by big mice?
Or ---- did someone know precisely what cutting those pipes would do???
Hi I'm desperate to do some photography in the building and really gain some publicity to what a fantastic site it is...did you get this footage? I'd really appreciate some advice as to how you get in and get footage of such a historic and treasured building..
surely it would be really cheap just to repair those pipes? The owners know about it and they could easily fix it. If this building was in Doncaster it would already have been knocked down - planning permission to demolish the Gaumont just a year after it closed.
I find it disgusting that although people are campaining to keep this building and are genuinely passionate about it , the council and yorkshire forward continue to completely disregard the publics views. I expect the same thing happened in the sixties when they pulled down all the lovely stone buildings to make way for those awful prefab buildings.
English people are too unempowered to do anything relying on fucking council n think sending them loads of mail and petitions is gonna do shit.
Get real have a proper plan, the local people make things happen no one else.
MY PROPOSAL; start a organisation made by and for the people of Bradford, raise money from people all people over bradford and then buy the damn building back....everyone roll up the sleeves and get to work on restoring and then turn it into a music venue called the Brad Pi