I'd love to see the old Christopher Pratt's store building again on North Parade. I've not been in since just before it closed in 2002/3. Apparently aircraft parts were manufactured and assembled inside during WW2, using the giant sized workshop at the back.
Bradford has become the expression of the people who arrived here from South Asian countries in the 1960s. What you import you become and its why the city centre is full of ugly signage and a general shanty town ghetto appearance. It's not lack of money in itself, because you could give them millions of pounds to work with, and they would still express what they have already created back home in parts of India, Pakistan or Bangladesh etc.
What a shame about the Media Museum. The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television is exactly the type of museum a Unesco City of Film should have. I was going there since I was a child and it never lost its appeal. The media museum was a half hour in and out and I don't think i will return. Shallow and gimmicky and aimed mostly at children now. Somewhere in London there is a nice TV museum with all the stuff they packed up and shipped off I imagine. The council and the civic society both wanted to knock down St Georges Hall. That story about the boar seems to be a relatively recent invention copied from other European myths/stories. Simply changed from a Dragon to a boar, etc. When I was growing up we were told that it was because there was a lot of wild boars around here and the last wild board was killed here. I would like to see some evidence of this head chopping story or at least an older source about this story. Older than 30 years, even pre 2000 would be good. Because i knew this story already and it was not about Bradford or a boar. Broadway Shopping centre was a terrible idea. They should have restored Forster Square and the view of the post office and Cathedral. It destroyed the entire top of town within a couple of months.
