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. As Ian puts it: "Bradford's been on a big rollercoaster over the past ten years and previously. Moira Helen Hodgson (15) The main stand at Bradford was not surrounded by fencing, and therefore most of the spectators in it could escape onto the pitch if they had been penned in then the death toll would inevitably have been in the hundreds if not the thousands. "When I read the Popplewell transcripts I could see they were processing 10-15 witnesses a day. Peter Anthony Halliday (34) by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 8:54 am, Post The horrific scenes of people burning alive seemed to live on in an eerie silence as daylight broke over the remains of Bradford City Football Club's ground yesterday. The names of the 56 victims of the Valley Parade Fire Disaster - 11 May 1985 . It occurred during a league match, on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265. Four police officers, constables David Britton and John Richard Ingham and chief inspectors Charles Frederick Mawson and Terence Michael Slocombe, and two spectators, Richard Gough and David Hustler, were awarded the Queen's Gallantry Medal for their actions. David James Crabtree (30) He was helped out of the stand by other fans and spent a period of time in hospital. He had to undergo counselling and was unable to go to another game for several years. I've never seen anything like it. The deaths were preventable . There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. ACKROYD, John Douglas, 32, Baildon . 6/22/2021 - AP by tiger76 Fri May 11, 2018 11:31 pm, Post The disaster led to rigid new safety standards in UK stadiums, including the banning of new wooden grandstands. For the 30th anniversary of the fire a new version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at Voltage Studios in Bradford. I was there 3 weeks before with Burnley. A total of 56 people - 54 Bradford fans and two. Horrific way to die and as ststed some of the most harrowing scenes ever witnessed. Police present in the vicinity of seats I142 and J142, where the fire was adjudged to have first taken hold, noticed it. First-Team Therapist: Nick Akerman. Amanda Jayne Roberts (20) The stand became an inferno in about 5 minutes. After its renovation in 1990 they named the home end of their ground the 'Stacey-West Stand', in honour of Bill Stacey and Jim West, the two Lincoln City supporters who were amongst the 56 to die at Bradford. "I became an adult overnight at 12 and I'm still there," Fletcher says, and you wonder what's next, now that the book which has become his life's work is published. talk all about the game and how big this win is for Ten Hag's men. The fire of 1985 will also certainly figure highly in Bantamspast, says Ian: "A chap rang me up about a week ago and he used to live on Cornwall Terrace, just at the back of the ground. [12] The work was expected to cost 400,000 (1.3million today). Superbly handcrafted and hand-painted for incredible detailing, this masterpiece features fully sculpted figures of a firefighter, police officer, and EMT gleaming with a hand-applied metallic bronze finish. It was the brainchild of Bradford City fan Lloyd Spencer with all profits going to the Bradford Royal Infirmary Burns Unit.[43]. The fans even say, 'I'm not particularly liking what I'm seeing on the field at the moment, but I enjoy the company of Billy and John'. Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS7. "I think the fire will play a big part in it. A massive fire broke out at a factory in Bradford this morning 11 Footage shows flames erupting from the factory 11 The blaze broke out in the early hours of this morning Credit: Ben. [8][9] In the crowd were local dignitaries and guests from three of Bradford's twin townsVerviers in Belgium, and Mnchengladbach and Hamm in West Germany. Performance Analyst and Player Welfare Officer: Robbie Bloodworth. Many of the residents, who were mostly Bangladeshi, took people into their homes, brought out blankets and drinks and let them use their home telephones. [29] The Health and Safety Executive who were also part of the legal action were found to be non-liable. 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. 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. New legislation was introduced with the immediate closure of all wooden stands deemed unsafe, the banning of smoking within other wooden stands and the banning of any new wooden stands being built at all sports grounds. On the recording are Dene Michael (Black Lace), The Chuckle Brothers, Clive Jackson of Dr & The Medics, Owen Paul, Billy Pearce, Billy Shears, Flint Bedrock, Danny Tetley and Rick Wild of The Overlanders. Previous warnings had also been given about a major . William James West (78) Spare a thought or prayer for them today. Whilst the boundary of the original brief was defined by the inner ring road, the University highlighted the significance of buildings just outside the boundary, inclusive of the National Media Museum, Alhambra Theatre and the new . Agree with the above, the most horrific scenes ever seen at football. Herbert Bamford (72) Norman Hall (71) The two sides met for the first time after the fire in April 1989, when they arranged a benefit match in aid of the Hillsborough disaster, at Valley Parade. 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. 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. Within minutes the fire had spread through the stand due to the windy conditions with some fans claiming that they could feel their feet getting warmer as debris began to burn below them. It was also a catalyst for the substantial redevelopment and modernisation of many British football grounds within the following thirty years. The smoke was choking. RM 2F7YJ1C - Eccles, UK. These 2 users liked this post: Clarets4me Juan Tanamera. Never to be forgotten ACKROYD, John Douglas 32 Baildon ANDERTON, Edmund 68 Bingley BAINES, Alexander Shaw 70 Bradford BAMFORD, Herbert 72 Bradford Andrew Fletcher (11) Instead, there is nothing. That was the open and shut case, the inquiry into the disaster chaired by Sir Oliver Popplewell, a High Court judge, concluded. 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]. They are performed once every 10 years. Edmond Fletcher (63) Ernest Normington (74) On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:42 pm, Post [49], Parrs Wood Press published Four Minutes to Hell: The Story of the Bradford City Fire (2005) by author Paul Firth;[50] the title refers to the estimated time it took for the stand to be completely ablaze from the first flames being spotted. [47] Scriptwriters of the play spent hours with the survivors and victims families. A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. The lucky winner will be drawn January 1, 2023, and the person will not be responsible for the sales tax. by Lord Beamish Fri May 11, 2018 12:44 am, Post The local Bradford Telegraph and Argus has found many voices to challenge his testimony, too. "[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. I saw the footage of the disaster as part of a fire training session and at the time it had been taken off any websites etc. Samuel Firth (86) The match itself, however, had to be interrupted before half time as a fire quickly broke out, with memories of title celebrations now replaced with this horrible tragedy. It was his first and last football match. A sad, sad day in the history of English football. Roy Mason (74) That was nothing compared with the time it took to interview witnesses in the Hillsborough Inquiry.". This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. 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. This is a rise of 0.29% in the last three months (since April 2018) and fall of 0.24% since 12 months ago. [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. BBC West Yorkshire: Bradford City JONES Elizabeth (Betty) On 6th February 2023 Betty passed away peacefully at Vida Hall Nursing. A large fire broke out Thursday morning after an apparent explosion at a commercial building complex in Bradford. Of all the Fletcher family who attended the game that day, 12-year old Martin was the only survivor. "We were concerned there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism unknown to us." 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. 15 Dec 2020. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. BBC West Yorkshire: Sport. Co-writer Matt Stevens-Woodhead had been asked to talk about the play to children at the local Parkside School a few weeks earlier and that had been the catalyst for Hazel Greenwood to return there too. Peter Greenwood (46) 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. Otherwise, I would not have been able to get out. 25 years ago and I'm sure, like Hillsborough, it's still fresh in the mind of a . 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