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From the Telegraph & Argus of July 26th, 1978...
The world's leading textile training centre - the textile department of Bradford College - was "on a collision course to closure" unless it was given more support from the UK textile industry, Bradford industrialists were told yesterday. Mr Michael Whitaker, chairman of Bradford College governors, told Bradford Chamber of Commerce that the textile and fashion department, as it was now called, needed about £600,000 to install up-to-date machinery in line with needs of the modern textile industry.
From the Telegraph & Argus of July 26th, 1953...
A Benedictine monk, Father John Barnabas Sandeman, the first ever to preach in Bradford, addressed a large congregation at St. Joseph's Church, Pakington Street, Bradford. Father Sandeman comes from Ampleforth Abbey and College, Britain's oldest inhabited monastery, and he devoted his address to an appeal for the Converts' Aid Society.
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