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Obviously helps cigarettes banned from football grounds now as IIRC a discarded butt caused the Bradford fire. The Weekly Gab: Lower league sides to watch in the FA Cup. But it was too late for the 56 fans that went to a football match and never returned who are still remembered, not just by those in Bradford and Lincoln, but by football fans throughout the country. Thoughts and prayers to the 56 who lost their lives in this truly awful and harrowing tragedy. Fletcher's appearance on BBC regional news programme Look North looked like an inquisition, with playback in his headphones as he spoke from a London studio contributing to the difficulty. He says he wants people to "look back on it in decades to come and think that somebody did some good work here and that the local fans and local people showed what the club meant to them and how much the club meant to the local community. Forest Green new stadium going to be made out of wood. by bfcmik Fri May 11, 2018 11:05 am, Post But they had done their job. A minute later he saw a small plume of smoke so he poured his coffee on it and so did his son. More than 250 others were injured in one of the. Only now, in 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (Bloomsbury, 16.99) has he completed a 15-year quest to challenge history's interpretation of why the fire broke out. It was his first and last football match. Chartered Management Degree at the University of Bradford, alongside working full time in an equally . With Bantamspast having been awarded a 50,000 grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, Ian says it's now just a matter of people coming forward with their Valley Parade memories. Some laughs puncture the rapt silence of the 75 minutes at Bradford's Alhambra theatre studio. Death occurring in such numbers, in such a capricious fashion, and in the ordinary setting of a football stadium, is truly horrifying. As Bantams Community Manager, Ian hopes it will reveal what people living around the ground really think. When Bradford City played Lincoln City at Valley Parade on May 11th, 1985, what should have been an afternoon of celebration quickly turned into one of the worst disasters ever seen at a British football ground. That was the open and shut case, the inquiry into the disaster chaired by Sir Oliver Popplewell, a High Court judge, concluded. As he received the injured at Bradford Royal Infirmary he was able to call upon 10% of the UK's population of plastic surgeons. "It seemed that this should at least have been examined," Fletcher says. Christopher Hammond, who was 12 on the day, said on the 20th anniversary of the fire: "As a 12-year-old, it was easy to move on I didn't realise how serious it was until I looked at the press coverage over the next few days. The director of that organisation, Dr David Woolley, was interviewed for just two hours by the inquiry team, and his private papers reveal his desperate rush to assemble information into a report for Popplewell. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 11:37 pm, Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited, This Forum is the main messageboard to discuss all things Claret and Blue and beyond. Bradford City AFC (@officialbantams) May 10, 2016, MORE : Mark Clattenburg set to officiate Champions League final, Sean Dyche says Arsenal have the look of Premier League champions after hammering Everton, No way! Darren Bent tells Chelsea star Raheem Sterling he wouldnt get in the Arsenal team amid transfer links, I love that! 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Thats when I thought this is time to get out of here. "I think if we go out there and ask local people who've been in a house for 24 or 25 years, a lot of their memories will be about that. [48] Profits from the play's run at The Edinburgh Fringe were donated to the Bradford Burns Unit. Ernest Normington (74) Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. That was nothing compared with the time it took to interview witnesses in the Hillsborough Inquiry.". Kit Manager: Dom Lister. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. It was during this treatment that Sharpe began to develop the Bradford Sling,[21] which applies even pressure across sensitive areas. JONES Elizabeth (Betty) On 6th February 2023 Betty passed away peacefully at Vida Hall Nursing. The fire was described as the worst fire disaster in the history of British football, and the worst football related disaster since 66spectators died at Ibrox in 1971. But it is Bradford, so they are just lying there, dormant, on the file, along with the question of the nine Heginbotham fires. "[28], West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council was found to have failed in its duty under the Fire Precautions Act 1971. But looking back and seeing how much it really affected my dad makes me realise what we went through." No one gave it the attention it ought to have received.. .. Of the 56people who died in the fire,[2] 54 were Bradford supporters and two supported Lincoln. 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[45] In total, 28 police officers and 22 supporters, who were publicly documented as having saved at least one life, later received police commendations or bravery awards. RIP. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. by LoveCurryPies Fri May 11, 2018 9:09 am, Post I also knew the Club Secretary Terry Newman very well. He still says to this day he cant attend another match. "Sometimes, it's more of a social thing than a football thing. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. He says he wants people to "look back on it in decades to come and think that somebody did some good work here and that the local fans and local people showed what the club meant to them and how much the club meant to the local community. "[55], Adams also went on to state that "I have read in some newspapers that he is being berated for his campaign to have a new inquiry. Following the hearing in 1986, a test case was brought against the club by David Britton, a police sergeant serving on the day, and by Susan Fletcher, who lost her husband John, 11-year-old son Andrew, John's brother Peter and his father Edmond in the fire. This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1960s, is a stub. He was actually one of the detectives involved in one of the gravest miscarriages of justices in the country, the murder of Carol Wilkinson in Bradford, where someone was locked up for 20 years for a murder he didn't commit."[60]. [10] The stand seats did not have risers; this had allowed a large accumulation of rubbish and paper waste in the cavity space under the stand, which had not been cleared for many months. As a result, Bradford-born captain Peter Jackson was presented with the league trophy before the final game of the season with mid-table Lincoln City at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985. Those lucky enough to escape, including players from both sides, took refuge in a pub across the road from the ground as friends and family members desperately tried to find their loved ones in the chaos. We had to run up the stairs, through the office doors and out onto the street. He later said: "I have never known anything like it, either before, or since. RF 2J1GRGW - Liam Byrne #20 of Wigan Warriors looks for a way past Jack Ormondroyd #19 of Salford Red Devils. Gambling can be addictive. For the book, we are looking to hear from people who were there but were children at the time, but could tell us their story.. Alexander Shaw Baines (70) It is Mrs Ibrahim's sentiment which seems to be most prevalent in Manningham, the British Asian district bordering Valley Parade, where many locals took injured and traumatised people into their homes that day. Ian says that Bantamspast is about much more than just the football: "It's where people come socially. [4], Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985. Eight fires in the 18 years before the Bradford City fire were identified, many catastrophic and leading to large insurance payouts. Fletcher has taken facts and presented them in such a way that it should make it moralistically impossible for this incident not to be looked at again. Or for a full-blown 91-day inquiry like the one which investigated the 1987 fire at London's King's Cross St Pancras Tube station, though Bradford claimed twice as many lives. The disaster led to rigid new safety standards in UK stadiums, including the banning of new wooden grandstands. Ian says that Bantamspast is about much more than just the football: "It's where people come socially. Applying this 18.457% change to the original purchase price of 48,000 results in an estimated price of approximately 56,859. Criticising Bradford City during the case, Mr. Michael Ogden QC, highlighted that the Club 'gave no or very little thought to fire precautions', despite repeated warnings. The father whose burgeoning success as a metals stockholder, driving a BMW 323i, took him a long way from his roots, selling coach trips to Mablethorpe. Rush Gaming Limited, Level 3, 203, BMW Building, Rue DArgens, Gzira GZR 1368, Malta. For the first-minute people were laughing and joking, it wasnt anything serious, he told the BBC in 2015. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's by NottsClaret Fri May 11, 2018 2:00 pm, Post Among the main outcomes of the inquiry were the banning of new wooden grandstands at all UK sports grounds, the immediate closure of other wooden stands deemed unsafe and the banning of smoking in other wooden stands. Bradford City stadium fire: The untold stories of the 1985 fire that devastated Valley Parade Thirty years after football's 'forgotten tragedy', the truth of what exactly happened when 56. The timber construction of St. Andrew's Stand, Main Stand and the roof of its popular Railway End terrace were immediately condemned as fire hazards, which saw seating capacity briefly cut to nil. She was Hazel Greenwood the mother whose children, 13-year-old Felix and 11-year-old Rupert, had been ushered away from the flames of the stadium fire all those years ago by a traffic warden, seeking to shelter them under his tunic. He lost his father John, 34, his 11-year-old brother Andrew, uncle Peter, 32, and grandfather Eddie, 63, in the fire. [31] In 1988, the first compensation payments were made to survivors of the fire, with over 40 people receiving up to 40,000 each. [] I still have terrible memories of the day, but it is the humanity of those that helped us that I reflect on."[41]. The stand had been officially condemned and was due to be replaced with a steel structure after the season ended. This user liked this post: claretjohn33505. Gerald Priestley Ormondroyd (40) Thick, black . There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. That stand went up so quick youd think it was made of petrol. Although some attributed Lincoln City's sudden demise to the psychological effects of the fire on its players (together with the resignation of successful manager Colin Murphy shortly before the fire), it symbolised the wider crisis that the introduction of new safety legislation brought to Lincoln's Sincil Bank home. Valley Parade still marks the names of the 56 supporters whose lives were claimed in the fire: John Douglas Ackroyd (32) It detailed the safety work which would be carried out at Valley Parade as a result of the club's promotion, admitting the ground was "inadequate in so many ways for modern requirements". . Footage never fails to shock me. However, the fire had consumed the stand entirely by that point and they were faced with huge flames and very dense smoke. "[16] At the front of the stand, men threw children over the wall to help them escape. He went on to state: "In 1985 fire investigation in Britain was in its infancy and some would say at that time most fire investigators were not much more than dust-kickers. The other, situated by the main entrance, was donated by the club after its 7.5million (13million today) rebuilding of the original main stand in 2002. by groove Fri May 11, 2018 10:48 pm, Post Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265. [10] The call was timed at 3:43pm. Some of those who died were still sitting upright in their seats, covered by remnants of tarpaulin that had fallen from the roof. Edmond Fletcher (63) [6], The 198485 season had been one of Bradford City's most successful seasons, ending with City clinching the championship title courtesy of a 20 victory against Bolton Wanderers in the penultimate game of the season. BAINES, Alexander Shaw 70 Bradford BAMFORD, Herbert 72 Bradford BULMER, Christopher James 11 Burley-in-Wharfedale COXON, Jack Leo 76 Bradford COXON, Leo Anthony 44 Halifax CRABTREE, David James 30 Bradford CRABTREE, Harry 76 Bradford DEMPSEY, Derek 46 Morley In 1999, ex-professional footballer, Ian Ormondroyd, was asked by the Club to lead and grow the Foundation. And Bradford seemed happy with it: five days of testimony, a 27-page report and everyone moved on. BARRIE, ONT. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. My friend was there in the stand opposite that one. "We were concerned there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism unknown to us." However, when Bradford City won promotion to the highest level of English football, Division One, in 1908, club officials sanctioned an upgrade programme. Police worked until 4am the next morning, under lighting, to remove all the bodies. "The family photographs seemed to mock you, too. Elizabeth JONES. Irene Mcpherson (28) 24 Bradford City A.F.C. Valley Parade re-opened on 14 December 1986, when Bradford City beat an England XI 21 in a friendly. It's thirty three years since those horrific scenes at valley parade.young Lads dads and grandads young girls and women perished.56.and over 250 injured lets remember and not forget them. "When I read the Popplewell transcripts I could see they were processing 10-15 witnesses a day. A police officer shouted to a colleague for an extinguisher, but his call was misheard and instead the fire brigade were radioed. 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