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. As part of Bantamspast, Ian's actually hoping to dig a little deeper to find out just why some people choose to actively avoid Valley Parade completely on matchdays: "Perhaps we'll find out why they don't come. The blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. "But I'd never heard of the Bradford disaster until I auditioned for this," she says. Since then, it has been further re-developed and, today, Valley Parade is a modern 25,136 all-seater stadium, which is virtually unrecognisable from how it was at the time of the disaster, save for the original clubhouse that still stands beside the main stand, and the flank support wall that runs down the Hollywell Ash Lane at the "Bradford End". Naquin's 3-run homer in 9th gives Reds 10-7 win over Twins The Cincinnati Reds didn't look drained to manager David Bell, despite this recent slide. He survived but clearly his life was also shattered on that day. 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. 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 facility that holds and maintains Kearsarge Regional School District buses exploded into flames Thursday morning trapping two people inside. He remembers people coming out of the ground and going into his house and phoning people. These 10 users liked this post: Bop bobinho ashtonlongsider Rick_Muller JohnMac IanMcL ClaretMoffitt Juan Tanamera bfcjg FCBurnley. He returned to Bradford City as football in the community officer, and also works as a commentator and match day summariser for Bradford City games with Pulse Radio. "Sometimes, it's more of a social thing than a football thing.". Herbert Price (78) David James Crabtree (30) The Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department recently announced a raffle to win a 2022 Ford F-150 XLT SuperCrew. Roy Mason (74) by Silkyskills1 Fri May 11, 2018 1:36 pm, Post Whether they don't feel welcome, for instance. "Storage of paint implicated but no evidence of storage beneath the stand. He said: We just want to try to reach out to the local community around the ground and see if anybody out there that remembers the day can come forward and talk about it.. ", 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.". It was a massive tragedy for everybody at the club.". "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. [citation needed] Mathew Wildman, aged 17 at the time of the fire, commented that "I must have had five different experiments carried out on me with all sorts of new techniques for skin grafts and I had potions injected into me that helped my face repair naturally over time. The majority of sales in Ormondroyd Avenue during the last year were semi-detached properties, selling for an average price of 130,000. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? 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. We didnt know at this point if anyone had been killed. Sarah Elizabeth Turner (16) It's with that in mind that Ian's Bantamspast project is underway in Bradford. The speed of the fire was astonishing. Something caught my eye, he later explained. A large fire broke out Thursday morning after an apparent explosion at a commercial building complex in Bradford. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. The House Price Index as of 1 Sep 2022 is 153.4 which is a change of 18.457%. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. Previous warnings had also been given about a major build-up of litter in the cavity below the seats in the stand. Gerald tragically died in the Bradford City stadium fire on 11th May 1985 along with his sons, Richard and Robert. 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. The local Bradford Telegraph and Argus has found many voices to challenge his testimony, too. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Popplewell's report was nowhere close to the quality of Lord Justice Taylor's report after Hillsborough, and since reading it as an adult I have always been very disappointed in it and considered it a poor piece of work. 56 fans died as a fire broke out at the game at Valley Parade, 54 Bradford supporters and two from opponents Lincoln City. 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. by Maja Fri May 11, 2018 8:45 am, Post by LoveCurryPies Fri May 11, 2018 9:09 am, Post Martin Fletcher, a survivor who lost 3 family members is convinced of it. Interesting theory related to the cost of making the ground safe following promotion and the history of Stafford Heginbotham who's businesses were almost synonymous with fires and insurance claims. "I wept with joy," she says. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. They were at fault, but the fault was that no-one in authority seems ever to have properly appreciated the real gravity of this fire hazard and consequently no-one gave it the attention it certainly ought to have received. The footage never gets any less shocking. Down there in the blackness lay tissues of debris which were testament to the ramshackle stadium's neglect. Head of Sports Science: Greg Stebbings. The scriptwriters' hours of interviews with those caught up in the horror are distilled into the narratives of three survivors, and the casual horrors of what befell football supporters that day are all in there. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? RM 2F7YJ1C - Eccles, UK. 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. Joined So do the sounds of some of those 150 people present, packing the little theatre's benches to capacity, needing to leave the dark space and take a moment to recover themselves. The way football is run is, and always has been, scandalous. [5] However, he also warned the club of a build-up of litter beneath the stand because of a gap between the seats. The largest volume of evidence stored there relates to the Department of the Environment's Fire Research Council the body responsible for providing scientific evidence for Popplewell. Horrific, harrowing scenes intensified by the speed at which the fire spread. Christopher James Bulmer (11) Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. May 11, 2019 #12 Erebus Full Member. There are . At 3.40pm, television commentator John Helm remarked upon a small fire in the main stand; in less than four minutes, with the windy conditions, the fire had engulfed the whole stand, trapping some people in their seats. 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. We had to run up the stairs, through the office doors and out onto the street. BARRIE, ONT. Previous warnings had also been given about a major . A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. "It seemed that this should at least have been examined," Fletcher says. [3] It included a main stand which seated 5,300fans, and had room for a further 7,000 standing spectators in the paddock in front. 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. Some had been crushed as they tried to crawl under turnstiles to escape. 26 years ago today. This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1960s, is a stub. All that was left of the. [53], In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled Bradford City A Year of Healing. Which memorial do you think is a duplicate of Gerald Ormondroyd (201296072)? Some of those back in Bradford have not welcomed his turning over of the stones. 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. A discarded cigarette and a dilapidated wooden stand, which had survived because the club did not have the money to replace it, and accumulated paper litter, were considered to have conspired to cause the worst disaster in the history of the Football League. Alexander Shaw Baines (70) In the panic that ensued, fleeing crowds escaped on to the pitch but others at the back of the stand tried to break down locked exit doors to escape. I once stumbled across the radio commentary from that day on YouTube. Read more aboutresponsible gambling. For the 30th anniversary of the fire a new version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at Voltage Studios in Bradford. by ClaretTony Thu May 10, 2018 11:46 pm, Post 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. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 8:54 am, Post The horrible thing is reading that list the number of fatalities that were obviously families wiped out. Then, in the space of 120-odd seconds, it really kicked in. 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. ACKROYD, John Douglas, 32, Baildon . Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. Watching it I asked myself why people didn't use the rear exits and what those late people were doing all that time, apparently the rear exits were boarded or padlocked. 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. The next day work began on clearing the burnt out shell of the stand, and Justice Popplewell released his findings into the disaster. The main fire safety system failed disastrously in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building in January, killing 17 people, The New York Times has found. Thoughts and prayers to the 56 who lost their lives in this truly awful and harrowing tragedy. The stand became an inferno in about 5 minutes. I dont praise the Folk of Yorkshire cheaply, but their Dignity, Self Respect, and Stoicism is a great credit to them. 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. On the pitch, referee Norman Glover had no option but to stop the game as the horror unfolded in front of both sets of players who could feel the heat from the flames even from the other side of the ground. The fact the inquiry also embraced the investigation into another incident which happened on the same day, a riot in which a young boy died at Birmingham City, makes it seem more frivolous. Fletcher said that "The club at the time took no actual responsibility for its actions and nobody has ever really been held accountable for the level of negligence which took place. "[11] Police Superintendent Barry Osborne, divisional commander for the area, said many of his officers cried when they saw how badly people had been burned. A giant Christian cross, made up of two large charred wooden members[44] that had once been part of the stand, was constructed in front of the middle of the stand and behind the pitchside speaker's platform. It was during this treatment that Sharpe began to develop the Bradford Sling,[21] which applies even pressure across sensitive areas. Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) [1] When the association football club was formed, the ground was changed very little and had no covered accommodation. March 3, 2022. HP10 9TY. by Lord Beamish Fri May 11, 2018 12:44 am, Post RIP to those who died and condolences to all persons connected to Bradford City Football Club. The Popplewell Inquiry found that the club had been warned about the fire risk that the rubbish accumulating under the stand had posed. Many were burnt to death at the turnstiles gates, which had also been locked after the match had begun. by Herts Clarets Fri May 11, 2018 1:13 pm, Post Once we went out it was mayhem, manic, chaotic. However, the celebratory mood soon turned into one of shock and horror when, at around 3:40 pm, the main stand at Valley Parade became engulfed by flames which reduced the entire wooden structure to cinders. In 1999, ex-professional footballer, Ian Ormondroyd, was asked by the Club to lead and grow the Foundation. [17], One witness saw paper or debris on fire, about nine inches (230mm) below the floor boards. It was 30 years ago. or "How unusual was that degree of rapidity?" "I was out shopping in Bradford and he had gone to the match," she says. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 13:41. The Bradford City stadium fire was the worst fire disaster in the history of football. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. The drawing date is Jan. 1, 2023. Death occurring in such numbers, in such a capricious fashion, and in the ordinary setting of a football stadium, is truly horrifying. . 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'. Remembering the Bradford fire. CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, Calif. -- A brush fire burning Monday morning on the peat wetlands of Bradford Island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta has charred 212 acres and prompted some . 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. "Thank you. by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:42 pm, Post 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. He is quoted as saying: "I don't believe the statement of retired Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer at all. [36], In 2010, Susan Fletcher's son and survivor of the Bradford City fire (and witness to the Hillsborough disaster), Martin Fletcher, openly criticised the club's hierarchy at the time of the fire and the subsequent investigation. Their initial aim at that time was to promote BCFC in the community by increasing the fan base and awareness of the Club. Danni Phillips, the young London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art actor who spent hour after hour listening back to the scriptwriters' interviews in preparation for her beautifully observed role in The 56, hails from South Yorkshire, half an hour down the M1 and her father played football for Halifax Town. [citation needed] Spectators later spoke of initially feeling their feet becoming warmer; one of them ran to the back of the stand for a fire extinguisher but found none. 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. [29] The Health and Safety Executive who were also part of the legal action were found to be non-liable. Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS7. -- Eleven people were injured, including four in critical condition, when a fire broke out at an apartment building in Bradford West Gwillimbury Monday afternoon. 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. Robert Wedgeworth (72) 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. View Death Notice. We couldnt run back down the tunnel. 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