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View of City Hall from Centenary Square. Before its relocation, between 1847 and 1873, the town hall had been the Fire Station House in Swain Street. In 1869, a new triangular site was purchased, and a competition held for a design to rival the town halls of Leeds and Halifax. [1] The local firm of Lockwood and Mawson was chosen over the other ...
Hill was born on 11 January 1825 close to the Bradford Town Hall. He was the youngest of five brothers. His father was Jonas Hill, a builder and joiner, and his mother was Olive (nee Whitaker). He was baptised on 9 February 1825 at Bradford Cathedral. Hill joined the Freemasons in 1848. His father died in 1850 and with his brother Joshua Hill ...
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The town of Bradford had been governed by improvement commissioners from 1793. [3] It was incorporated as a municipal borough in 1847, after which it was governed by a body formally called the "mayor, aldermen and burgesses of the borough of Bradford", generally known as the corporation or town council.
As of 10 a.m., the planning and zoning meeting at 6 p.m. at city hall, 5434 Tower Drive, is expected to run as planned, according to the city's Facebook page. Bolivar
The new council used the town hall as its offices until it acquired Westbury House in 1911. [9] Following a few years of use as a cinema, the town hall was acquired by Midland Bank in around 1915. [7] Midland Bank converted the Church Street wing into a bank branch, and rented out the council chamber to the local branch of the Catholic Church. [7]
1873 – Bradford Town Hall [22] and Mechanics' Institute building constructed. 1874 – Friederich Wilhelm Eurich, a professor of forensic medicine and bacteriologist who does much to conquer the disease of anthrax in the wool trade, moves to Bradford. 1875 Lister Park opens. [30] Bradford Naturalists' Society founded. [31]
Both are teaching hospitals and are operated by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS trust. Over the years the Trust has subsumed a number of smaller hospitals; these include Woodlands Orthopaedic Hospital, Northern View and Bierley Hall. Bradford is the focus of one of the UK's largest ever birth cohort studies, known as Born in Bradford.