Bradford Telegraph and Argus | Remember When?

Survivors who will never forget horrors of siberia

Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:28:25 +0000

Ryszard Wolny will never forget the bitterly cold February night when Soviet soldiers stormed into his family home.

Howe leaf inspired tribute to Delius

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:17:02 +0000

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Bradford-born composer Frederick Delius.

Bradford and enchanting entertainer Dickens

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:55:03 +0000

Picture the scene: Bradford in December 1854. The surrounding hills are clouded with smoke from busy factories. City Hall has not yet been designed and built by the architectural partnership of Lockwood and Mawson.

Dickens's creative take on Bradford's mill success

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:50:01 +0000

Jim Greenhalf looks at the links between literary legend Charles Dickens and one of Bradford’s own 19th century pioneers his week marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, who ranks alongside Shakespeare as the writer who did most to populate the English imagination with memorable characters and sayings.

Fountain the Bradford pub that scored with so many customers

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:44:15 +0000

The Remember When? article on Heaton’s Fountain Inn prompted football-related memories for Mark Neale.

Fresh air and fun with Bradford holiday group

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:42:06 +0000

The forthcoming centenary of the start of the First World War prompted Cumbria-based journalist and writer Rosamund Ridley, whose husband Robert has an office in Little Germany, to recall the anniversary of a meeting in a Bradford Quaker meeting house in January 1912.

The kindness of Bradford we will never forget

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:01:34 +0000

Emma Clayton tells the remarkable story of Albert Waxman, who escaped persecution in Nazi Germany in 1939 on the Kindertransport and eventually found a home in Bradford It was a rainy evening in March 1939, when a group of exhausted boys arrived at a large Victorian house in Manningham.

A Hockney who was set against smoking

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:38:28 +0000

A recent T&A article about the award of the Order of Merit to Bradford artist David Hockney prompted Shipley reader Nick Buck to revisit another newspaper article published 50 years ago.

Football and fun at the Fountain Inn

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:36:23 +0000

Anyone remember the days of the ‘lean to’ at Heaton’s historic Fountain Inn?

Bradford fairground attraction that gripped so many

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:37:32 +0000

JIM GREENHALF looks at the times when the area was awash with fairs, feasts, shows and showmen Fairs and fairgrounds are comparatively rare these days. Years ago, however, feast days and fairs abounded. The Post Office Bradford Directory for 1921, for example, lists 58.