Exploring the Decaying Heart of Bradford! 

the real Bradford! - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VjQAIMWAYV8.htmlsi=dKtPSOb7q8kov9DY

Back in the late 1970's Bradford was a great night out, good pubs,bars,clubs restaurants, take aways etc and lovely, friendly people 👍.

Danny.....you're obviously not a Bradford lad or you'd have known that it was city hall. To give you some context, I was born in Bradford in the mid '60's. I had a great upbringing in a very nice suburb. All my school mates were second generation immigrants. Everyone got along just fine. Now Bradford in the '70's and '80's (this was when I started to spread my wings a little) was fine....if you ignore the recessions that affected the whole country........anyhow, things began to change.......slowly at first but then it accelerated and we experienced a phenomenum known as "white flight". I lived through the "turbulence" generated by Ray Hunniford, the "Yorkshire Ripper", the Bradford City fire, and the Bradford riots to name but a few. I've seen good and bad from all sections of the community.......I detest racism with all my heart but I've seen it perpetrated by whites, Asians and Afro Caribeann's. I've seen white family's driven out of Heaton and Manningham but I've never ever seen any Asian family's driven out of anywhere. Why exactly was Shariah law even allowed to get a foothold? What happened to the law of the land? So, racism is most certainly NOT the preserve of the white population. The police, the politicians and the City councillors all looked the other way while Bradford was being torn apart......all in the name of multiculturalism. I have to smile when I read the comments from Bradfordian's who've moved away but profess to love the place. Why didn't they stay if it's that good? Me, well I too left Bradford in the late '80's.......first out to the suburbs and then away altogether. I too loved Bradford......and then I grew to loathe it. "City of Culture".......really........what does that mean exactly? I lived there when it was a city of manufacturing excellence, two top notch grammar schools, two huge, quality department stores and a University that was a world leader. I admire your enthusiasm, I really do, but wild horses wouldn't bring this Bradford lad back. For a start, I'd be afraid of being caught up in a crash for cash scam (oh yeh, I foiled one of those just before I left altogether) or just the victim of a good old fashioned uninsured driver......check the statistics. This Bradford lad who spent his first 50 years there (24 years in Bd 9 and not just driving through) can tell you categorically that Bradford is what's called a "Lost City" (don't ask me how I know). I could weep for the city of my birth. Good bye Bradford and thanks for the mostly great memories.

Bradford resident here, I think our shopping centre needs improvement and more activity centres, apart from that, I'm proud to call Bradford my home 🙂

Been living in Bradford for 3 months now and our family loves it here. Moved from London after living there for 17 years and couldn’t be happier! Thank you for your honest review. You get good and bad wherever you go. It’s always our choice what we focus on , what we appreciate, and what we do to change and positively influence what we don’t like.

I love living in Bradford home is what you make of it ❤

i moved from bradfords and to the US a decade ago, from the videos I've seen on RU-vid - the city looks much better than it did. There seems to be alot happening and going on there atm and lots of beautiful old architecture - the building that you see wrapped up next to the theatre is the old odeon and it is almost finished been renovated now.

It's about time my city got the recognition it deserves

Bradford was good in the 60s and 70s with its cinema’s Odeon 1 & 2 and The Ritz, it had olde lovely style with Kirkgate Market and John Street Market, and a classic store Brown Muffs, then it went downhill!

Born and Bred Bradfordian and it is 'city hall' behind you Danny, we stopped being a town in 1897 and became a metropolitan district in 1974. I am proud to live and work in Bradford, having lived and worked in London, Switzerland, Netherlands and the USA. You missed an opportunity by not talking to a local on your tour because one thing you find in Bradford is how helpful people are, there is a lot of kindness and because the city centre is not very big they will tell you everything you need to know good and bad. Me, I would have told you about Jack the ghost in City hall, and the old lady ghost who haunts the men's room at the City Vaults Public House... allegedly. Others would show you where the homeless people sleep. We are after all Yorkshire folk. A lot of people have written Bradford off but they haven't been around lately and seen how we are pulling ourselves up by the bootstraps and working together to make Bradford a sanctuary city for all. So thank you for the highlights Danny much appreciated!! Hopefully we won't be robbed of City of Culture and you can come back to more Bradford surprises in 2025. BTW Bradford is like Marmite, if you see the good in people you will see that Bradford is a diamond in the rough, if you only see bling we are probably not the place for you. Also the reason the top of town is slowly closing down is because there is a new market to be opened on Darley Street which is currently being built and the old Odeon is undergoing a massive regeneration into a music venue. Thanks again.

A great honest review. Thank you for taking the time and effort to come and see for yourself. Down to earth people who still take pride in their city.

Found you via ‘the algorithm’.... Bradford certainly has beautiful architectural buildings and history. Like your commentary, it has a certain ‘Idiot Abroad’ style, just missing Ricky Gervais infectious laughter and mad lad instructions. Keep up the fast paced step count 👍

the outside of that hotel is brilliant one of a kind

Having lived in Liverpool I can vouch that Bradford is fine.

Went to Bradford for a night , stayed in Birmingham for a week . Wish I had stayed longer in Bradford . The restaurants around there are nice and also the scenery is gorgeous if u go to the right places

Your right the buildings are really nice in the city center

DID NOT LOOK TOO BAD, YOU POSSIBLY DID IT A FAVOUR.

Bradford, DUBAI of the NORTH, more car accidents than Grand Theft Auto. But in terms of City center is not a Leeds but much better than a lot of other towns or cities, nice architecture, good places to walk around, so its not GRIM like many say!!

Bradford won the City of Culture 2025 as announced this evening on BBC The One Show. Well Done Bradford!!! ❤️🧡🖤

I grew up there. There's definitely some shitty places about, but there's also some really cool places. The city centre has definitely improved. I really liked living there. You have shown Bradford in a good light, thank you.

PLEASE DO MORE OF BRADFORD! Areas like Allerton, Thornton, Haworth, Shipley, thank you

I grew up in Bradford. My extended family lived in Manningham. After the demographics rapidly changed in the 1960s it became extremely dangerous in Manningham. My family all emigrated to Australia & none ever came back. I stayed in the UK but moved well away from Bradford. It was the best decision that I & my extended family ever made. Take my advice & stay well away if you value yor life.

Never been to Bradford, tbh looks definitely descent, nice buildings, even got church bells ringing.

Ive watched many short videos on RU-vid of reviewers in Bradford, not leaving a pleasant feeling and the comments are just appalling. Ive lived in London and Birmingham for almost 17 years, but id describe myself as a Proud Yorkshire, Bradford Lad. This was a brilliant watch and the comments are from a genuine place of love. Thankyou for doing this 👏💯

Cool video dude and thanks for showing the ol' BFD in a good light. Would love to see a video in the Bradford country side, in particular Haworth is very pretty! :D

very informative indeed

i was born and bred in bradford,i feel so unsafe when i go shopping in town center ,you have drugies and drunks begging for money and stalking you

You ought to have checked out some of the sink estates such as Buttershaw, Holme Wood, Thorpe Edge The inner city areas such as Little Horton, Maningham and Lumb Lane to see what Bradford is really like. I was born there in St Lukes and left there 45 yrs ago now living in Belfast

Haha - The other Sunbridge Wells entrance is actually near the little Tesco express opposite the barber shop. If you go down them steps it is literally all under that main road - sunbridge road. It is open everyday.

I live in Bradford, we won the City of Culture award, woop woop

My mum was born in Bradford, she lived the first 15 years of her life there, she left to move to Lancashire in 1972

Great vid, you missed out the entrance for the underground bar , it was open but in the other side

I used to visit my mates who lived in Bradford most weeks when they lived there, it's a nice little city I think, it's certainly a decent place to shop.

I remember the city centre thronging with people when I was a kid. Visited in recent years, and even pre pandemic it was like a ghost town. Very upsetting.

4 years in Bradford after living in London, Singapore, Portland Oregon, Persian Gulf. Good side - Lovely people - so friendly, super cheap to rent a large apartment or house, lots of money being invested in the city center (side effect of govt money from Covid) Very close to multiple beautiful areas (Saltaire, Peak District, Yorkshire dales) Amazing listed buildings all over the city, some great bars, especially up by North Parade. Downsides - drug addicts - lots of skinny women down alleys waiting to pick up drugs from Asian dealers, all look like they smoke crack. Many closed shops (even worse after the pandemic) Lots of rich Asian mommys boys driving souped-up Cars and sometimes even dune buggys... Am not racist at all, I think most law-abiding Asians would agree with the last few points.

I was attacked with hammer and phone robbed on this Sunday 5th June and the next Sunday new phone smashed up and black eye in Bradford. Live stream is on my channel - Lord Clyde Family Fun For Everyone. Sorry for plug just peeved off cos attacked 2 Sundays on trot, maybe its just my fault. City's not big they just ram everyone in.

As a loiner of a certain vintage I have concluded finally about the truth of much in the world ..one is that Bradford was a notable city which outshone Leeds ..more famous,more character more Yorkshire,more illustrious generally..or so it seemed,anyway. Then the 60's happened and the ridiculous phenomenon of Leeds United which changed everything .Leeds transformed and bradford nosedived. Leeds was numerically sufficient to harness and integrate foreign arrivals and had a road network already in place very extensive and around its perimeter. It had the money and/the drive to build an inner ring road and benefitted from the motorways also from its central geographical position at the centre of Yorkshire and England..like Bradford it preserved much of its beautiful Victorian buildings and /or benefitted from the luftwaffe' poor eye sight. Once you have reached critical momentum point it's self fulfilling .don't blame us for your demise , we're your best asset with your native nouse ,individual brilliance and intellect we can be the light of the north

You must visit Glastonbury Town! 🤘🙏✨

Thank you for covering my city ❤️

I'm going to be honest, I have visited Bradford many times because I have relatives there and it isn't nice. I think the countryside surrounding the city is very beautiful though. Leeds city centre is much nicer IMO

I live in bradford and used to DJ in lingard/ascention (about 10+ years ago..) the past few weekends there had been a stabbing or machete attack on a night out.. the night life is basically none exsisting anymore, no clubs open all dead and shut down...

Regular Chicken Tikka Pathia from Cafe Punjab 1999. Since then though forget about it.

What words come to mind when you hear the word Bradford? The Yorkshire Ripper and The Black Panther.

I was pleasantly surprised also. I took the train there from Leeds . I assumed there would be lots of Pakistanis yet there is an area in Bradford with a large Asian community nice restaurants-- Just further up I found Queensbury also and further nice cottages and houses. Countryside 😇

It looks quite nice to be honest. Any plans to do Nottingham?

I live in Bradford, politely it's Grime and I call it Gotham

now go to top of bradford, you'll see a totally different shopping center full of chavs and pound shops.

A great insight into a key player in the Industrial Revolution, all too often overlooked by the neighbouring cities of Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester. A refreshing insight into a forgotten working class city build on its rich industries. Once home to great mills spinning Cotton and Wool, great Engineering works such as Jowett Motor Co. and Scott Motorcycles with a manufacturing heritage in Bradford dating back to the 1900's. Unfortunately, another victim of cheaper manufacturing from the Far East. Great to see Bradford getting some much needed attention.

I live in Leeds, but, as a musician, I got a lot of work in Bradford. Leeds doesn't have that amount of culture. Yes, Bradford is considered to be the poor neighbour, but I like the place.

Just for't novelty you should check out the '1 in 12 Club'. Last i could be arsed with it , it was very Backstreet. I don't think it's moved.

Bradfords problem is its too near leeds and it just can't compete with its big brother

People write Bradford off as being full of drugs, bad drivers and poverty. However, I feel that the low price of property in Bradford is because of racism, as many natives who can or could afford to are leaving because they don't want to live near minorities. Of course they will never admit this. I found Bradford centre to be quirky, charming, cosmopolitan and friendly, if a little neglected. The stone buildings are wonderful. The city centre has loads of potential.

One of the greatest artists of all time comes from Bradford. A creative giant. Allan Holdsworth.

Night life for the younger generation has died a bit, now a lot of the older popular night clubs went years ago. Still has a lot of pubs and gin and ale places. All in all it’s slowly looking a bit better just need some old shops reopening.

Toilet of the north

The report was about high crime levels in Bradford, this is unrelated to the good points which has no bearing on the issue.

Outskirts are beautiful. Unfortunately the immediate surrounding areas are dire and no go areas. The City centre is nice but unfortunately is spoilt by the inhabitants and decent people won't shop or drink there. This shows in your video, not many people around. There could be if the council dealt with the obvious issues but unfortunately they just encourage degradation rather than muscling in on the idiots. Ironicly the poster about 'passion and compassion' says it all and that is why decent people won't go there, despite it being their City that they used to love. Very sad.

You were lucky you escaped with a phone and your backpack intact. 😮

Any city is safe during the day. You gotta go at night.

Go up Leeds Road or Manningham Lane Bradford and 7pm at night I would love to see that

Bradford is a brilliant place

Anyone any info on that castaway building?? 1:48 Old night club maybe??

A city center so bad you didn't dare come out at night to show the lights and all ;) I can see that mid day sun too XD

I'm a Londoner and Bradford looks pucka mate 🇬🇧🍀👍

The old kirkgate needs doing up and modernising but otherwise a lot going on in bfd. Plenty choices for food entertainment.

I was born in that city. As an 80s kid, it seemed bigger than life, then in the 90s it became as eyesore sh*thole of a mess. In the 2000s i was embarrassed to call it my place of birth. Beyond that i relocated to Canada, US, South America and other places and never looked back. After seeing your video it seems like its improved a little, thats good to see. At the peak of industry in the 18 /19th Century Bradford was a booming place, maybe one day it will get some of that back. Thanks for the video.

My birth place (thankfully never lived there..parents moved us to a quaint village in Leeds once I was born). Surprisingly there are some nice "pretty" surrounding areas of Bradford - such as Baildon Moor - Salts Mill - but generally and overall, Bradford is the dumps, especially areas like Manningham and Buttershaw Estate etc.

Try taking a walk around BD3 pal. You'd soon change your mind..

Nice place but wrong people!

the first thing that comes to mind about bradford is i think it’s chavy

Thanks for the honest review. Let us know when you are planning to come back and would love to show you round and take you for a curry

Pretty good! Just needs sunshine ☀

Bradford resident. If you give me a million pounds a week to live in certain parts of the city I would turn it down.

I am from the US. I visited Bradford in the spring of 1995. I loved it so much, that I was looking into moving there at one point.

Bradford City Centre is pretty sickkk.

The saying was when I was in yorkshire and you were entering Bradford a sign said have your passport ready. 🙄

David Hockney birthplace.

so you have not met the drunks and drugies and homeless yet then yet,visit on a night then

I'm from bradford and you kept cutting the video and showed all the good bits 😂 I live in the town centre and it's a damn dive 😅

Its weird you showed Bradford at the time when most of the residents are asleep lol

Very few people about, what time was it?

You missed North Parade. Its worth another visit just for North Parade.

Bradford is filled with some beautiful architecture and history, it's just a shame it's an absolute dump. And the driving standards are beyond horrific.

When people talk about Bradford being a hole (and they're not on about the literal giant hole in the ground where the Broadway is now, which sat for a decade or so), they're not talking about the bottom of town lol. You didn't even go up the top of town where the drunks shout at pigeons between throwing up on themselves at 9am right outside the council funded AA service, or further up towards Manningham Lane and one of many surrounding slums. Bradford is about 140 square miles. You didn't even brush the surface, let alone scratch it.

and we had a crispy cream Doughnut today,

Beautiful Bradford 🥰

My hometown 😁 I'm from Undercliffe have u visited Undercliffe cemetery oldest cemetery in Bradford :-)

It's just the chavs that's the problem. The place is rundown like a lot of smaller places but Bradfords notorious for Chavs over most other cities

❤️Bradford

Most people who talk negatively about bradford are those who can’t afford a decent accommodation, they go from one council flat to another an havnt got a pot to piss in along with there very poor social circle, the city is not to blame for there failings, they never get to see or enter the areas where there’s multi million pound houses in Bradford so they think it doesn’t exist but it does, Bradford is about 200 square miles an tramps Judge Bradford on only what they seen which isn’t much when they havnt got more than a pound for bus fair

The biggest surprise to me is that you have walked around Bradford openly carrying a moderately priced camera and not been mugged

Born in Bradford. Studied in Bradford and now work in Bradford. It's given me everything I need including an affordable house. Make good money as a pharmacist....what more could I expect from my City?

Maybe if you went at night you’d see what people mean ,not sure I’ve never been but I know the areas around where I live with bad reputations usually prove that at night

Do Shipley next pls

You pretty much stuck to the centre. Lived here years. It's terrible mate, simple as that. Have a wander up to Manningham or Heaton but i'd take a stab proof vest.

Rain

I live in Bradford, born and bred

I now live on portugal but miiss Bradford and bcfc

Like other people have said the town centres orite haven't been back for a few years, it's deffo the people and the outskirts when I lived there the town centre was pretty bad

Are the major industry in bio-tech or software?