@@maddysunshine4173 it sure did, i remember as a child the old market, dusky and old but full of life and buzz - there was a great toy shop stall there too! (early 1960s)
Thing is that said “monstrosity” is about to be knocked down and history repeated, the site probably being left as a hole for a couple years as it still isn’t clear what the council want to do with the site within the City Village scheme!
Well after watching this, one thing I'm absolutely certain about is this, things don't always improve over time, a once magnificent city, is now unrecognisable, in more ways than one.
I lived the first 22 years of my life in Bradford, and the last 56 in Western Australia. Very sad to see many of the buildings I grew up with have now gone. I remember watching the last wall of the Swan Arcade falling. So sad to see Kirkgate Market - such a place of tradition and memories - replaced by the soulless building there now. I first learned of the ten pound scheme to emigrate to Australia at a film presentation in the Mechanics Institute - another grand piece of architecture no longer around.
I loved watching this video - thank goodness for the pause button on my pc! New builds don't have the character that the old builds have sadly. Remember Abbey National House opposite City Hall? Stood for approximately 30 years then demolished. The wonderful Kirkgate Market - now a concrete lump. A few years ago I remember plans mooted to coat the exterior of the Arndale Centre in YORKSHIRE STONE for goodness sake. Pull down a beautiful building made of Yorkshire stone, put up (as described - a concrete lump and talk about cladding it in Yorkshire stone.
What an amazing video, brought back so many memories for me, and how much my home town has changed (not for the better). So glad I saw it growing up in the 70's and 80's xx
Thank you so much for this, as I realise how much work was needed. At times very upsetting to see some of the Great buildings destroyed by faceless councils, selling Bradford's Heritage for a quick buck.
Totally agree with this. Seeing the arcades in the city centre replaced by absolute nothings of buildings, particularly when comparing the beautiful state that Leeds’ arcades are in was so sad.
Thanks for posting. The before and after photo's/drawings were great, and with the addition of the arrows to show exactly where the old building was situated made this a must video, the best I've seen to date.
Architecs in the 60s and 70s really had some kind of complex going on in their small-minded brains. Could anybody explain why they demolished the wonderfull Kirkgate Market instead of refurbishing it to the best of their abilities, at that time, until the next generation came along with new ,improved methods of preserving it. The exterior could have been saved. I think it is widely accepted that pulling it down was a massive mistake. Shame on all you who had a role in that!
I've always thought it would be interesting to try and find out what homes those god-awful architects chose to live in themselves. Did they opt to live in any of their own bunker-like creations? Or did they instead choose...for example....elegant Georgian or Victorian era town houses? I think we know the answer to that.
Amazing video, thank you so much for this history. Bradford has such a rich history which not many people know about but I find myself pondering about it from time to time.
My compliments to you Sir on a job well done. Undoubtedly, the best video of Bradford that I've seen. Your hard work and creativity are very much appreciated.
Very well put together and appreciated. There is just enough still in existence in and round bradford to allow you to try and picture what it would have looked like when in the glory days of the mills in the 19th century. A visit to Undercliffe cemetery should be compulsory for all Bradford school kids.
Very nice video, especially where old buildings are superimposed over new buildings. But it’s sad to see all traces of the late 1700s and early 1800s gone. Surely someone could have said during all the demolitions “let’s keep this building for people to look back on, a monument to past times”
The evidence of council vandalism there for all to see. Maybe you could alter Foster to the correct Forster Square in the title? My family live(d) in Bradford since before 1799, can't get the records any further back. Desperately sad to see the old buildings gone, especially the shopping centre, Swan Arcade. Thank-you for your effort. A great result. During my 70 years, it was torn apart!
yes, sorry about the spelling mistake - I'm not able to change it once it's uploaded unfortunately i tend to double check - but then I notice the odd spelling problem once uploaded!
Demolishing the Kirkgate Market was the single worst decision ever made in Bradford, the entire structure of the building should have been kept, with a new, modern interior built into it.
Lots of that beautiful monumental masonry left in the corner of a wreckers yard.The man hours of skilled masons, gone to waste.For what, the demolition of Kirkgate Market the second,to commence soon.The old bank building in Brisbane Australia was gutted internally & turned into of all things a casino,leaving the Victorian building looking beautiful as ever.Shame on Bradford Council.
yes you are right, at the bottomuf Morley street - looking forward to the town hall - mixed up the images there, but realise that now, a bit late to change ...oops😶
yes - neither can i find any - i have some of Idle and nearby areas as i plan to do them in the future. at the moment i am on Shipley/Saltaire & Windhill areas🐈
Great work but it does me no good when I get reminded of how great the city of my birth was when I was growing up there in the late '60s to early '80s. So many factors conspired to destroy it.......and destroy it they did. Left for the suburbs in the late '80's......left altogether in 2016. Wild horses wouldn't drag me back........people in power looked the other way while it was being torn apart and abused. Ask me how I know........better still, don't. Good bye Bradford and thanks for the memory's.
I was born there in 1960 - so like you - grew up there until 1977 and then moved to a nicer part of Halifax! I loved that world back then - but like you, wild horses wouldn't drag me back - although there is the odd nice bradford area...still..give it time to be destroyed
Totally agree, born there in 1956, left in 1980 for Halifax, at least Calderdale have the sense to keep their market hall, I haven't been to Bradford since the speedway finished in 1997, don't even like driving through it, though thankfully I'm much further away now in Lincolnshire.
Great video. What a shame those greedy councillors thought more about lining their pockets than keeping a lot of those remarkable old buildings. From a town of magnificent architecture to a dump full of bric a brac eyesores, scandalous.
In relative terms, Bradford is a new city built in the 1800s and demolished to be replaced by motorways and bland 20thc buildings that are replaced every 20 years when planners find a new fad to follow, sad city that had a wonderful heritage that was squandered.
What puzzles me are some of the buildings that they list, such as the concrete eyesore that was a Building Society office opposite John Street Market. This was empty for a long time and would have been an ideal choice for demolition, yet all those beautiful buildings that gave Bradford it's character have been swept away and many of the survivors stand, out of context, on back roads, in isolation, where they were once prominent buildings in a proud prosperous city.
I quite enjoy it🙂 (working on Oldham at the moment) I tend to get into the lives of the people that worked and lived in these town's many years ago, when working out the maps, areas and streets.
The entire section of the river running through the city centre was eventually built over, so it only emerges out into the open further up north as it flows towards the River Aire
A very interesting video. You seem to be a bit confused over the use of an apostrophe in the dates. You get it right on some but on others you say 1970's when it should be 1970s. 'Demolished in the 1960's' at 14.47 should be 1960s.😊
@@peteleonard9568 Please look at 1.10. Do you think 1700's is correct? Go to 3.45, is 1800's correct? Both are wrong. They do not indicate a possessive form.
