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Bradford is a city in West Yorkshire, England.It became a municipal borough in 1847, received a city charter in 1897 and, since the 1974 reform, the city status has belonged to the larger City of Bradford metropolitan borough.
Bradford (/ ˈ b r æ d f ər d / ⓘ), [6] also known as the City of Bradford, is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns and villages of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Haworth, Silsden, Queensbury, Thornton and Denholme.
The National Science and Media Museum (formerly The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, 1983–2006 [2] [3] and then the National Media Museum, 2006–2017 [4] [5]), located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, is part of the national Science Museum Group in the UK.
Speaking at a briefing on Thursday, Charles Hazlewood said his musical project The Bradford Progress would probably “start somewhere on a moorland crag with someone singing or playing”, and ...
View of City Hall from Centenary Square. Before its relocation, between 1847 and 1873, the town hall had been the Fire Station House in Swain Street. In 1869, a new triangular site was purchased, and a competition held for a design to rival the town halls of Leeds and Halifax. [1]
The town of Bradford had been governed by improvement commissioners from 1793. [3] It was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1847, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Bradford", generally known as the corporation or town council.
Bolling Hall is one of the oldest buildings in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England.It is currently used as a museum and education centre. The building is about a mile from the centre of Bradford in East Bowling.
It is situated about a mile outside the city centre [2] on Manningham Lane, the main road between Bradford and Shipley.It is one of the city's largest parks and was purchased by the City of Bradford for half its commercial value from Samuel Cunliffe Lister, who built Lister's Mill.