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Bradford / Royaume-Uni

Bradford est une ville située dans le Yorkshire de l'Ouest en Angleterre, au pied des Pennines, à 14 km à l'ouest de Leeds et à 26 km au nord-ouest de Wakefield. Faisant historiquement partie du West Riding of Yorkshire, la ville est devenue un arrondissement municipal en 1847 puis obtient sa charte de ville en 1897. À la suite de la réforme du gouvernement local en 1974, le statut de cité a été attribué à l'arrondissement métropolitain de la cité de Bradford. Bradford fait partie de la zone urbaine du Yorkshire de l'Ouest qui comptait 1,5 million d'habitants en 2001 ; c'est le quatrième plus grand district métropolitain du Royaume-Uni. La ville compte 531 483 habitant en 2018. Au XIXe siècle, la révolution industrielle fait de la ville un centre international de production textile : de petite ville rurale, Bradford devient la « capitale mondiale de la laine ». Les richesses naturelles de la région — charbon, minerai de fer et potentiel hydrique — ont facilité la croissance de la manufacture de Bradford qui voit, à mesure que la fabrication de textile progresse, sa population augmenter significativement. Néanmoins, le secteur du textile y est en déclin depuis le milieu du xxe siècle. La ville est confrontée aux mêmes défis que le reste du nord de l'Angleterre, à savoir les difficultés socio-économiques liées à la désindustrialisation. Bradford bénéficie d'un patrimoine architectural victorien remarquable dont l'hôtel de ville de style italianisant. La ville est également la première « ville UNESCO de cinéma » avec des attractions telles que le musée national de la science et des médias, le parc municipal, le théâtre Bradford Alhambra et le Cartwright Hall . La ville de Bradford partage un aéroport international avec sa ville sœur, Leeds.

Cartwright Hall

Bradford / Royaume-Uni

Cartwright Hall is the civic art gallery in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, situated about a mile from the city centre in the Manningham district. It was built on the former site of Manningham Hall using a gift of £40,000 donated by Samuel Lister and it is named after Edmund Cartwright. The gallery which opened in 1904 initially had a display of artworks loaned from other galleries and private collections until it was able to purchase a permanent collection of Victorian and Edwardian works using money raised by the 1904 Bradford Exhibition.Cartwright Hall stands in Lister Park and enjoys scenic views of the city. Cartwright Hall has been held to represent "Bradford Baroque", a style of architecture typical of Bradford. It is however designed by the same architects as Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum , also in the Baroque style.The purpose-built gallery is home to a collection of permanent works, from Old Masters to 20th-century British paintings and sculpture. Cartwright Hall also has a biennial open exhibition and contemporary and historical exhibitions by local, national and international artists. Since the mid 1980s the Bradford museum group has collected works that are associated with the cultural background of many post-war migrants to the Bradford area. Acquisitions include contemporary South Asian Art - Islamic calligraphy, phulkari style illustrated textiles and items of contemporary Sikh art, including a portrait of Guru Nanak.In 1983 Cartwright Hall was briefly used as part of the musical number 'every sperm is sacred' in the Monty Python film, The Meaning of Life.In 2003 an Unreal Tournament map was created featuring the inside of the hall as part of a contest for PC Format Magazine.

Cliffe Castle Museum

Bradford / Royaume-Uni

Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian, neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892. There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying the house itself, which is a Grade II listed building. Entrance to the museum is free of charge.

Université de Bradford

Bradford / Royaume-Uni

L'université de Bradford est une université publique anglaise située à Bradford. Elle a été fondée en 1966.

Bradford Industrial Museum

Bradford / Royaume-Uni

Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public. There is a Horse Emporium in the old canteen block plus a shop in the mill, and entry is free of charge.

East Riddlesden Hall

Bradford / Royaume-Uni

East Riddlesden Hall is a 17th-century manor house in Keighley, West Yorkshire, England, now owned by the National Trust. The hall was built in 1642 by a wealthy Halifax clothier, James Murgatroyd. The hall is a Grade I listed building. There is a medieval tithebarn in the grounds. East Riddlesden Hall perches on a small plateau overlooking a bend in the River Aire on its way downstream from the town of Keighley. Interesting features include well-restored living accommodation on two floors, two Yorkshire Rose windows, walled garden, the ruined Starkie wing and several ghosts . A hiding place for Catholic priests was installed during the 16th century.The property was extended and re-built by James Murgatroyd and his wife Hannah, using local Yorkshire stone, in 1648. He also built other stone manor houses throughout the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the great hall, a small fireplace can be seen above the main fireplace, where the floor for the first floor accommodation was not built. James Murgatroyd was a Royalist and this can be seen in royalist symbols and graffiti on and in the building. For example, the Bothy has the heads of Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France carved in the topmost stone work. According to a NODA National News feature in 2007, the Murgatroyd family are reputed to be the inspiration for the Murgatroyd Baronets in the comic opera Ruddigore by Gilbert and Sullivan, and the opera has been performed at the Hall. W. S. Gilbert is supposed to have often stayed at the Hall. The feature comments that the Murgatroyds became notorious "for their profanity and debauchery". A legend arose that the River Aire changed its course in shame, in order to flow further away from the hall and its occupants . The feature continues "Members of the family were fined, imprisoned and excommunicated". It asserts that the character of Sir Despard Murgatroyd in Ruddigore is based on James Murgatroyd.