New book tells the history of Bradford
A NEW book tells the history of Bradford through 100 key dates.
The book, written by Civic Society chairman Alan Hall, highlights the events that make Bradford what it is.
They include October 18, 1858, the date of the Bradford Sweet Poisonings, when a sweet seller combined sugar and peppermint gum with arsenic, and March 18, 1649, when Mary Sykes was brought before the justice Henry Tempest at Bolling Hall and accused of witchcraft by several neighbours.
The book will be unveiled at the Midland Hotel, Bradford, at noon on March 28.
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