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Bradford is the focus of one of the UK's largest ever birth cohort studies, known as Born in Bradford. Partly supported by European funding, it is the result of close collaboration between the University of Bradford, the NHS and other institutions in West Yorkshire. It will track the lives of all the babies born in the city from 2006 to 2008 ...
Bradford (/ ˈ b r æ d f ər d / ⓘ), [6] also known as the City of Bradford, is a metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a larger area which includes the towns and villages of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Haworth, Silsden, Queensbury, Thornton and Denholme.
Settled in 1823, Bradford was chartered as a city in 1837 [4] and emerged as a wild oil boomtown in the Pennsylvania oil rush in the late 19th century. The area's Pennsylvania Grade crude oil has superior qualities and is free of asphaltic constituents, contains only trace amounts of sulfur and nitrogen, and has excellent characteristics for refining into lubricants.
Verity Rushworth – (born 1985) actress, born in Bradford, who is best known for her role as Donna Windsor-Dingle in the ITV1 soap Emmerdale. Albert Rutherston – (1881–1953) born in Bradford, and was a painter of figures and landscapes, book illustrator and designer of posters and stage sets. [88]
Barbara Taylor Bradford was a prolific author whose debut book A Woman Of Substance is one of the best-selling novels of all time, having sold more than 30 million copies since its publication in ...
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.
The best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford has died. She was 91. The British-American author died “peacefully at her home” following a short illness on Sunday, Nov. 24, PEOPLE can confirm.
1862 – Frederick Delius, CH, composer, born in Bradford. 1863 – Original Bradford Rugby Club founded by Oates Ingham, owner of a Dye works in Thornton Road. [25] 1864 All-Saints' Church consecrated. [13] Textile exporter Charles Semon becomes the first foreign-born and Jewish mayor of Bradford. 1865 Holy Trinity Church built.