Bradford's new look John Street Market will be renamed the Oastler shopping centre after one of York-shire's famous sons.

Some 100 people put names forward for the complex, which has had a £4.5 million facelift, after the Telegraph & Argus invited readers to rename it.

The winner was 66-year-old Eleanor Higgins who will be given a trolley dash around the new centre by Bradford Council as her prize.

Today Councillor Simon Cooke, executive member for the economy, said: "It is good to have something which moves the city forward but also preserves the history of Bradford."

He said the centre would breathe new life into the top end of the city and complement the planned new Rawson Quarter shopping complex nearby.

The statue of Richard Oastler stands in nearby Rawson Square in memory of the man who liberated factory serfs.

He was born in 1789, the son of a prosperous cloth merchant.

For 20 years he fought inside and out of Parliament for the Ten Hours Bill which reformed factory conditions and ended an era where children worked around the clock in grim conditions.

He went across the country campaigning for a working day of only ten hours in the mills. The working class named him the Factory King and when he was buried at Kirkstall in 1861, thousands of people from all parts of the West Riding went to his graveside.

The Oastler statue was originally situated outside the Midland Station.

But by 1920 it had become a traffic obstruction and was taken to Rawson Square.

Mrs Higgins, 66, who lives in Undercliffe, said: "I think it is a good idea to give it a historic name which means something to the city."

Tenants from the temporary Rawson Market and James Street fish market moved in with the existing tenants in John Street last November.

It ended a ten year fiasco when the Rawson tenants moved out to their temporary unit to enable redevelopment of the main hall at a cost of £6 million.

But the Council ran into funding problems when the main hall was half demolished.

The site has now been taken over by developers who want to transform it into the Rawson Quarter shopping and leisure centre