Recently started working in Bradford having not visited it before. I really like it, mixed population, beautiful architecture and access to the country side. Top City!
Plenty to see especially the outer areas like Haworth but the clips here especially around little Germany are great you can see why they are filming movies/TV set in the 19th and early 20th century there 💯
@@EgoShredder Maybe not as long as that but definitely since the late 80's onwards in my view. A lot of beautiful buildings knocked down and fortunately for Bradford, some still standing. Like Hull, nothing will come of the City of Culture scheme.
@@mick998r It all depends where you draw your own line I guess, but my great grandparents decided to leave Bradford, for the same reasons we would do today, minus the multi culti aspect of course which they were fortunate to avoid.
This is my home city although I now live in Liverpool. Bradford has some lovely buildings but it's a city that's suffered a lot in recent years, hence the many empty shops. Hopefully the City of Culture award will reverse its fortunes but I doubt it.
A most excellent tour. I lived there since 1970 and I took the city for granted. I am looking forward to visiting again with a new perspective. Thank you sir for taking the time to do this.
Thanks for showing some of the highlights and hidden treasures of Bradford! Anyone who has not visited definitely worth a trip especially the areas shown in this video like little Germany a lot of history and a wide variety of movies/TV have shot there recently too
Wow. What an informative walking tour of my beloved home city. Thank you for shining a light on its colourful history. Maybe the bradford towns in the US can use this video to show the history of their parent city.
I remember going on a Saturday morning to the odeon and going to the Alhambra especially at Christmas for the pantomime and saw jimmy clitheroe this brings back many good memories
Thanks for this wonderful video! I'll be looking for a property in the area later this month and this has really whetted my appetite for Bradford (one of the places is in Little Germany, which I was pleased to see). Jaw-dropping Victorian architecture and very clean and tidy.
Wow. Last year a gentleman posted a couple videos of Bradford history and architecture on "In and Around Yorkshire". Thank you so much for this. Bless you for this.
The composer Frederick Delius who's mentioned in this walking tour was also mentioned in an episode of the Victoria Wood sitcom Dinnerladies. In the episode Jean (Anne Reid) is reading the TV listings in a magazine when Twinkle (Maxine Peake) asks her what's on TV than afternoon and Jean reads that a documentary about Frederick Delius exploring the fact he contracted syphilis but unfortunately she either misread across two separate listings or misread his name and therefore Dolly (Thelma Barlow) jumped to the conclusion that Delia Smith had caught syphilis LOL!
They've done what they did in their own countries.....turn the place into a filthy crime riddled ghetto. Also rather than quietly integrate, they have set up 'victory mosques' around the city.
@@elijade99 why it’s racism when you say true?? To be clean-it’s from Islam. الطهور شطر الإيمان it’s a famous hadis! Just don’t mess , keep clean everything outside, it’s not hard
@@jacobersno6955 I obviously agree with not littering but it's not down to just the "non white" people of Bradford. Most people of all colours are equally guilty of that. Source for that, I'm literally from Bradford and I've lived in multiple areas, white ones and not white ones
And now it's nothing but a shadow of its former glory of industrial might. it's just a run down sad place with more and more of it's once beautiful buildings being knocked or burnt down, sad looking empty shops litter the once bustling streets, trade and growth is none existent. It's nothing but an extremely drab and depressing place to be now
I beg to differ. It has lost a lot of its victorian buildings it still is a victorian city with Little Germany and many other buildings left. With an economy of over 9 Billion pounds it is important part of the the UK economy. Pls do not knock the city down.
@@bradsalubby yeh and how many of them few remaining buildings are now overshadowed by big ugly concrete monstrosities. And define "economy" baring in mind we have hardly anything. Bradford hasn't been an important part of the uk since the wool trade. Now it's famous for curries and being ethnically diverse that's not exactly screaming we're a booming hub of trade is it 😂 Bradford is a miserable shit hole and has been for the 32 years I've lived here. You can try convince yourself otherwise all you want, but the reality is us bradford folk came to terms with that fact a long time ago, it's a shit hole, but it's our shithole, and let's be honest it could always be worse, we could be Birmingham 🤢
@@bradsalubby There's nothing in Little Germany. Just faceless companies. It is wasted in Bradford. I am sure it will eventually be taken over by Pakistani takeaways and saree shops though, like the rest of the city.
Its a shithole, lived here over 40 years and the only time i go into the town center is to drive through it, this video makes it seem far more appealing than it actually is
I guess he’s highlighting positive aspects of the places he’s visiting,which doesn’t hurt.Yes Bradford is mainly a 💩hole,but as he’s pointing out it’s historic,some wonderful buildings,and an important media museum
@@oliverhayhurst1708 I didn't even mention race, and somehow you know exactly what's going on in Bradford. Interesting. We call that a self-own, Abdul.
Why would they though? They are not of Bradford's blood and soil, and have no spiritual or cultural connection for Bradford. It's 100% understandable but the question is.....why are they still here decades later? If they came for work that should have been arranged on a short term limited stay basis. They should never have been allowed to purchase homes, set up businesses and slowly take over the place. Both Bradford Council and the Government have sacrificed the place for profit and to hell with the native Yorkshire English people.
The problem with your comment is the word "foreign" the vast majority of the "foreign" people you talk about are born here or have legal citizenship. So who do mean exactly?
i've lived in a few cities including bradford - bradford is by far the most anti-social place ive lived in. litter is normal, fireworks going off at 3am is normal (i mean the really loud fireworks that sound like explosions), cars revving engines at any time and driving like normal roads are a race track and the smell of weed everywhere. but its wrong to say it just 'foreigners'.
@@mohammedmufc1 Immigration is a symptom of a much greater problem that pushes it on our nations, which I can not name here because RU-vid deletes my comment instantly every single time. The last three words of my sentence are a big clue as to whom I am referring to, as its an infamous phrase they have come to be known by.
14:45 i really hate this tiny footpaths, a lot of abandoned businesses, as long as u walk down this street u can feel weird, no safety, the ar is wet and stinks of homeless, its dark and not rly representing 21th century, bradford city center is still no good and never be better, to go shopping u need to be athletic and have some mef in ur pocket, people dont want to go up to the hill with many bags to buy a soap..
