And only after she had gone vanished into the kind of warm Bradford Saturday night on which wives, children, parents and friends first learned that they were the bereaved, 30 years ago next week did the significance of her gratitude become clear. It was on the 10th anniversary of the fire, 20 years ago, that Mrs Greenwood set up a fund, in the memory of her sons, offering the chance for young people in this place to take a journey of educational or cultural travel as she would have wanted her own two to do. A large fire broke out Thursday morning after an apparent explosion at a commercial building complex in Bradford. 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. I walked past a public telephone outside the ground and there were queues of people waiting to ring home. Frederick Hindle (76) Some of the local residents opened their houses so people could make phone calls, but until I arrived home my mum and my brother had no idea whether I was alive or dead.. 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]. Football architect Archibald Leitch was commissioned to carry out the work. Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 9:25 am, Post It's an incredible video, seen it numerous times, but as you say never gets less shocking. Obviously helps cigarettes banned from football grounds now as IIRC a discarded butt caused the Bradford fire. Ian Ormondroyd (born 22 September 1964) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. [7] As it was the first piece of league silverware that the club had captured since they won the Division Three (North) title 56years earlier, 11,076supporters were in the ground. 1 . 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. The inquiry into the disaster, chaired by Sir Oliver Popplewell and known as the Popplewell Inquiry,[25] led to the introduction of new legislation to improve safety at the UK's football grounds. by ashtonlongsider Fri May 11, 2018 6:28 am, Post Most of the fans who took this escape route were killed or seriously injured. Paula Helliwell, Unheard Voices project manager, said they wanted to hear from more residents who helped with the rescue effort outside Valley Parade, with the intention of recounting unheard stories from the time. On May 11th each year a memorial service is held in Bradfords Centenary square with the Lord Mayor of Bradford being joined by The Mayor and Mayoress of Lincoln to remember those who passed away in one of the most shocking tragedies ever witnessed at a British football ground. For the first-minute people were laughing and joking, it wasnt anything serious, he told the BBC in 2015. A total of 56 fans died in the fire on May 11, 1985, in a match between Bradford City and Lincoln City, with around 265 more injured. Learn more about merges. This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1960s, is a stub. Howard Malcolm Turner (41) I don't see that. Regional Scout (North): Ray Mathias. "[27], After controversial comments made by Popplewell about the Hillsborough Disaster, Fletcher raised further concerns about the events following the fire saying that "I have many unanswered questions still about the fire in which four of my family died, as does my mother. You must log in or register to reply here. Otherwise, I would not have been able to get out. "[16] As spectators began to cascade over the wall separating the stand from the pitch, the linesman on that side of the pitch informed referee Norman Glover, who stopped the game with three minutes remaining before half-time. We are a self-funded charity, placed right at the heart of the city. Regional Scout (Midlands): Stan Martin. "[23], On the 25th anniversary of the fire, the University of Bradford established the United Kingdom's largest academic research centre in skin sciences as an extension to its plastic surgery and burns research unit.[24]. Agree with the above, the most horrific scenes ever seen at football. 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. Never seen the death roll that's horrendous the Ormondroyd family looks like Father and his two twins. We couldnt run back down the tunnel. It's certainly how Mumtaz Ibrahim feels about the day when, as a newly married 20-year-old, she thought her young husband had been killed in the flames. There were a lot of wooden stands in those days, PNE Bury to name but two. The Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department recently announced a raffle to win a 2022 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew. As you said, Herts. BRADFORD, N.H. (AP) An explosion and a fire at a school bus transportation company building in Bradford critically injured two people, the New Hampshire State Fire Marshal's . It wasnt until later on when assistant manager Terry Yorath came in and said: Its not good.'. Amazing that just 18 days later the Heysel tragedy occured,a dark month for football. Charlotte Ormondroyd Fleet Underwriter at Axa Insurance Bradford, England, United Kingdom 336 followers 339 connections Join to connect AXA Beckfoot School Activity Great time in Leeds this. I'm 27 and can't remember seeing it but I know there'll be people on these boards who will and can remind people of what happened on that tragic day. As the blaze spread, the wooden stands and roofcovered with layers of highly flammable bituminous roofing feltquickly went ablaze. I was doing some research about football stadium disasters a few years ago as I find them fascinating and horrendous at the same time. There was no appetite for a re-enactment of events, such as that which Dublin embarked upon when a fire at the Stardust nightclub fire in Arcane claimed 48 lives in 1981. Some had been crushed as they tried to crawl under turnstiles to escape. Uncensored coverage of the fire was transmitted minutes after the event on World of Sport and the BBC's Grandstand after the video cassette was physically driven to Yorkshire Television. Following his own 15 year investigation Into the fire, which killed four of his family members while he escaped, former tax accountant Martin Fletcher released 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (2015). I've never seen anything like it. However, when Bradford City won promotion to the highest level of English football, Division One, in 1908, club officials sanctioned an upgrade programme. The boy Fletcher discovered soon enough how boundlessly and profoundly life-affecting the afternoon would prove to be. "It seemed that this should at least have been examined," Fletcher says. Gordon Stuart Mcpherson (39) . [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. These are the kinds of loose ends which would now be investigated to the end of the earth by the Hillsborough team. Topic: 25 years ago today, the Bradford City disaster. A brush fire that burned on Bradford Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta near Bethel Island burned 212 acres and two structures Monday, fire officials said. This early part of the narrative is so readable that you wonder how Fletcher, a qualified accountant, did not wind up as a writer. Led by former Leeds United and England international Trevor Cherry, the Bantams won only their third divisional title and earned a return to the second tier of English football for the first time since 1937. Never to be forgotten ACKROYD, John Douglas 32 Baildon ANDERTON, Edmund 68 Bingley BAINES, Alexander Shaw 70 Bradford BAMFORD, Herbert 72 Bradford BBC West Yorkshire: Bradford City The play, entitled simply The 56, does not seek to make melodrama out of that 11 May afternoon at Valley Parade, when fans arrived to celebrate Bradford's promotion from the Football League's division 3. I asked the director to get the camera to go a little closer. The unheroic obstinacy of the woman who refused to leave without her handbag "because my teeth are in it." Ian Ormondroyd, Bantamspast From the tragic fire at Valley Parade in May 1985 to the club's slide from the Premier League to administration in more recent years, people will obviously have many. "Official Featherstone Rovers RLFC Web Site First Team Squad", "Ormondroyd junior the 'big daddy' of the family at 17 stone", "Much-changed Featherstone ready for Bradford Bulls test", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Ormondroyd&oldid=1015639568, *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC), This page was last edited on 2 April 2021, at 16:48. As many supporters still required rescue from the stand, they were unable to immediately start fighting the source of the fire. 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.The stadium was known for its antiquated design and facilities, which included the wooden roof of the main stand. [45] PCs Peter Donald Barrett and David Charles Midgley, along with spectators Michael William Bland and Timothy Peter Leigh received the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct. It was appalling that public money was given to the club while it was still owned by the same shareholders under whose direction the fire had happened. Men, women and children all helped. One letter from the council said the problems "should be rectified as soon as possible"; a second said: "A carelessly discarded cigarette could give rise to a fire risk." He lost his father John, 34, his 11-year-old brother Andrew, uncle Peter, 32, and grandfather Eddie, 63, in the fire. The tender that was won by the University of Bradford to create a LOD3 digital twin of the city will see the area shown within the following map captured. William Stacey (72) Yes it is I try to leave a scarf and floral tribute on behalf of Burnley fans.and will do so tomorrow. John Hutton (74) But it is Bradford, so they are just lying there, dormant, on the file, along with the question of the nine Heginbotham fires. Valley Parade re-opened on 14 December 1986, when Bradford City beat an England XI 21 in a friendly. RIP. talk all about the game and how big this win is for Ten Hag's men. Horrific way to die and as ststed some of the most harrowing scenes ever witnessed. For the 30th anniversary of the fire a new version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at Voltage Studios in Bradford. A police officer shouted to a colleague for an extinguisher, but his call was misheard and instead the fire brigade were radioed. 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. Supporters searched for fire extinguishers while the Police began to evacuate the stand withflames soon spreading to the roof and across the wooden steps as timber and other materials began to fall onto the crowd. [38], The tragedy received immense media attention and drew support from around the world, with those offering their sympathy including Queen Elizabeth II, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II. He remembers people coming out of the ground and going into his house and phoning people. "Yes you've already told us you were concerned," the inquiry's QC effectively says, before he moves the conversation along. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. As he received the injured at Bradford Royal Infirmary he was able to call upon 10% of the UK's population of plastic surgeons. by tiger76 Fri May 11, 2018 11:31 pm, Post I go to the football with my two children (both adults now) and have done for many,many years. John Fletcher (34) Trevor John Stockman (38) 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. Burnley were down south that day probably in the Midlands.we stopped off for beer in Rochdale and saw the horror on the telly box. It's hard to avoid the sense that Fletcher might have done, had it not been for that fateful May afternoon, which took away so many of the buttresses of his life. 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. A capacity 6,000 crowd attended a multi-denominational memorial service, held on the pitch in the sunny shadow of the burnt out stand at Valley Parade in July 1985. Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. ", Ian says he's hoping the Bantamspast project will look at a side of the club which hasn't been revealed before: "This is more about the fans, the people and the ground - even the people who don't come to the ground.". Didn't realise gabby Logan was doing a documentary now on BT To Add there were some nice floral tributes there today. The playing area and stands were very basic but the ground had enough room for 18,000spectators. There were no extinguishers in the stand's passageway for fear of vandalism, and one spectator ran to the clubhouse to find one but was overcome by smoke and impeded by others trying to escape. [15], At 3:44pm, five minutes before half-time, the first sign of a firea glowing lightwas noticed three rows from the back of block G,[10][16] as reported by television commentator John Helm. 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. It has already interviewed 60 people including retired police officers who were on duty at the fire, who said they went around the streets to find survivors. Three people were killed trying to escape through the toilets, while 27 bodies were found at the back of the stand by the locked exit doors and two elderly people died in their seats. The list of victims reveals the impact the disaster had on families as fathers, sons, mothers, daughters, husbands and wives went to a football game that day never to come home again. Thick, black . However, as there was no real precedent, most Bradfordians accepted that the fire was a terrible piece of misfortune. Thoughts and prayers to the 56 who lost their lives in this truly awful and harrowing tragedy. Rupert Benedict Greenwood (11) Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. -- A hotel under construction in Bradford is considered a total loss after a fire overnight. [4] Football ground writer Simon Inglis had described the view from the stand as "like watching football from the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel" because of its antiquated supports and struts. 56 football fans went to watch a match at the Valley Parade football Ground this day 27 years ago, and didn't come back. 25 years ago and I'm sure, like Hillsborough, it's still fresh in the mind of a . A truly horrific day which should never be forgotten. And there are also repeated references to the smell of burning plastic. "What kind of 'mechanism'?" The Valley Parade stadium, long-established home to Bradford City Football Club, had been noted for its antiquated design . by Spike Fri May 11, 2018 1:12 pm, Post Community Foundation was set up in 1988 by the PFA. Ian Ormondroyd CEO at Bradford City FC Community Foundation Bradford Bradford City FC Community Foundation David ORMONDROYD Account Executive at Planet Ottawa, ON Planet, +4 more Carleton. The drawing date is Jan. 1, 2023. "We were concerned there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism unknown to us." Reading back the transcript in a 21st-century, Hillsborough Inquiry environment you expect this to be the moment when Popplewell pushes Woolley to elaborate. Police have revealed the identity of the man who they believe was responsible for . I got pushed down to the front and I remember looking around and suddenly this smouldering, small fire had taken over virtually half a block and was starting to hit the roof. [32] Speaking at the close of the case, the Judge said "They (the club) were at fault, no one in authority seemed to have appreciated the fire hazard. This is the kind of understated remembrance we have seen in Bradford these past few months, at the onset of another significant anniversary of the 1985 fire which tore across the local football club's old wooden main stand, reducing it to a collapsing inferno in a mere four minutes and claiming 56 lives. David James Crabtree (30) Ian Ormondroyd (born 22 September 1964) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. ClaretMoffitt Posts: 3889 Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:19 pm . [57] Following the 30th anniversary of the fire, a number of news organisations named this man as Eric Bennett who was visiting his nephew in Bradford from Australia and attended the game on the day. The CNN sports correspondent Alex Thomas was a school friend and he always asked Fletcher why he didn't have the ambition to make a go of it in that world. 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. on: May 11, 2012, 10:28:10 am . Previous warnings had also been given about a major . Their initial aim at that time was to promote BCFC in the community by increasing the fan base and awareness of the Club. "Why should they not still want answers?" ", On 26 January 2016, the IPCC declined calls for an investigation and published its full response online. "The rumours of the fire came slowly and took hold slowly but when things became clear, I threw down my bags and ran. [5] However, he also warned the club of a build-up of litter beneath the stand because of a gap between the seats. Those are the words of David Pendleton, a survivor of the Bradford City fire disaster, which happened 30 years ago. Robert Wedgeworth (72) 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. "The family photographs seemed to mock you, too. by ClaretMoffitt Fri May 11, 2018 9:08 am, Post Footage of the accident at this point shows levels of confusion among the spectatorswhile many were trying to escape or to cross the pitch to the relative safety of the neighbouring stands, other spectators were observed cheering or waving to the still-rolling pitchside cameras. The men with no hair feeling the searing pain first; supporters entering hospital with their hands melted to their heads by the asphalt which has leaked from the stadium roof; a fan's trilby hat igniting. Rush Gaming Limited, Level 3, 203, BMW Building, Rue DArgens, Gzira GZR 1368, Malta. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? These 3 users liked this post: Silkyskills1 tim_noone bobinho, I was closely connected to Bradford City and knew people who died in the fire. [51] Another book; 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (2015) was written by Martin Fletcher to discuss how the disaster was caused, and follows his loss of his father, brother, uncle and grandfather. A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. Then, in the space of 120-odd seconds, it really kicked in. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. William James West (78) Fire crews from . by IanMcL Fri May 11, 2018 9:01 am, Post The blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. When cross examined by QC Robert Smith, then Chairman Stafford Heginbotham said he knew about the fire risk at the ground. The Valley Parade fire took hold, it has always been said, because a match must have been dropped into the reservoir of rubbish in the dark cavity beneath the main stand's seats. Bradford Fire. And Bradford seemed happy with it: five days of testimony, a 27-page report and everyone moved on. The average price for property in BD6 1HR stood at 71,472 in July 2018. And so it has been that while Liverpool supporters' refusal to accept the received narrative of Hillsborough the stadium disaster 40 miles north across Yorkshire in which 96 died has made it a source of anger and liberation at the heart of the national consciousness, Bradford became the forgotten tragedy. This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. Gerald Priestley Ormondroyd (40) Like all areas of forensic investigations, it has come on leaps and bounds. The project, which began in February this year, is now. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Ormondroyd played for Bradford City, Oldham Athletic, Aston Villa, Derby County, Leicester City, Hull City and Scunthorpe United. However, there is a lot in this book that troubles me about the science, or lack of it, used in the testing of the investigators' hypothesis as to the source of the ignition. A Gannett Company. The fire destroyed the main stand completely and left only burned seats, lamps and metal fences remaining. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Beat the energy price rises in Ormondroyd Avenue, Bradford BD6 Yearly saving up to: 553 Detached house 415 Semi-detached house 393 End terrace house Compare energy deals It is important that we continue to promote these adverts as our local businesses need as much support as possible during these challenging times. He later said: "I have never known anything like it, either before, or since. ? pic.twitter.com/VkqiAEXBR8, billy clarke (@billyclarke7) May 11, 2016. Moira Helen Hodgson (15) [10][16] Geoffrey Mitchell said: "There was panic as fans stampeded to an exit which was padlocked. 10th Apr, 2021. Horrific, harrowing scenes intensified by the speed at which the fire spread. On Thursday, department officials . Many were burnt to death at the turnstiles gates, which had also been locked after the match had begun. RM 2F7YJ1C - Eccles, UK. We will remember them. Remembering the Bradford fire. The children were still nestled under the warden's thick overcoat when they discovered them. In respect to services offered in the Republic of Ireland, the Revenue Commissioners, under remote bookmakers License number 1013060 issued on 2nd July 2019. orty-year-old Gerald Ormondroyd also died that day, along with his 12-year old twin sons Richard and Robert, just two of ten families to lose more than one member at Valley Parade.. former Leeds United and England international Trevor Cherry. 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