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The Argus Weekly occupied Argus Chambers in the Britannia House building over a century ago. The Yorkshire Evening Argus and the Bradford Daily Telegraph newspapers later combined to form the Bradford Telegraph & Argus, which has occupied its present building, the former Milligan and Forbes Warehouse for some decades.
In the 1920s, Bradford's local newspaper company, the Telegraph and Argus, moved into the building and is still operating, on a massively reduced scale, from there today. Because of the increasing demands of newspaper production, a large extension was added to the original Victorian building, although it is now redundant.
The history of the estate in the twentieth century was characterised by the Bradford Telegraph and Argus as beginning as a 'pioneering housing estate', becoming 'a hot-bed of crime' around the 1980s, but undergoing 'a full regeneration programme' in the 1990s. [9]
1868 – Bradford Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication. [16] 1871 Bradford Free Library established. [5] Population: 145,830 (municipal borough). [28] 1872 29 January: William Rothenstein, painter, draughtsman and author, born in Bradford. December: St Bartholomew's Church in Ripley Ville consecrated. [29]
Louisa Pesel (1870–1947) was born in Bradford, the daughter of Bradford textile merchant Frederick Robert Pesel and his wife, Isabella. She was educated at Bradford Girls Grammar School. Pesel was a teacher of the art of embroidery. [74] Edward Petherbridge – (born 1936) English actor, writer and artist. Born in Bradford.
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In 1954 the Arndale Property Trust Ltd of Wakefield, an investment company which specialised in the development of central shopping and office sites, with extensive holdings in the North and Midlands, privately bought the Swan Arcade in for a reported sum of between £225,000–£250,000 – although the exact figure was never disclosed.
Stafford Heginbotham (12 September 1933 – 21 April 1995) was a British businessman who was chairman of Bradford City football club at the time when 56 people died in the Bradford City stadium fire. The fire occurred immediately after the club won league promotion, which mandated a costly upgrading of spectator facilities.