Even if you're in a small town, it's the main focal point," says Ian Ormondroyd. At the time of the disaster, many stadiums had perimeter fencing between the stands and the pitch to prevent incidents of football hooliganism particularly pitch invasions which were rife during the 1980s. Nellie Forster (64) Even the received wisdom is enough to make you rage against football's breathtaking complacency: the same complacency which would turn the terrace at Hillsborough into a killing ground, four years later. "In memory of the 56 people who went to the match on a Saturday and never returned home." The project, which began in February this year, is now looking to hear from residents who helped with the rescue effort on the day. Gregg Ormondroyd, 31, grew closer to his wife Donna's carer, Anne Robinson Donna collapsed and stopped breathing two years ago and was put in a coma She was brought out of the coma later but has. This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. This site is part of Newsquest's audited local newspaper network. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Please note: census information may include figures for adjacent streets and postcodes. by ecc Fri May 11, 2018 12:36 pm, Post Instead, there is nothing. The father whose attempts to make him a Bradford City fan he mischievously tried to resist, especially after the family's relocation to the detached surrounds of East Bridgford in Nottinghamshire turned the boy into a Nottingham Forest fan. Fifty-six people were killed in the fire that engulfed an old wooden stand at Bradford City's Valley Parade ground on the final day of the 1984-85 season. Valley Parade in Bradford, West Yorkshire, was built in 1886 and was initially the home ground of Manningham Rugby Football Club. "Yes you've already told us you were concerned," the inquiry's QC effectively says, before he moves the conversation along. 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 seemed that this should at least have been examined," Fletcher says. 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. (2015), 2003 Football League Third Division play-off final, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bradford_City_stadium_fire&oldid=1141323458, Fire disasters involving barricaded escape routes, Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2010, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2021, Articles needing additional references from May 2018, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from December 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Fan attempted to extinguish a lit cigarette, it slipped through floorboards and fell on rubbish, igniting it. Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) Bradford fan David Pendleton, then aged 21, was at the game that day in the main stand and remembers how something which initially appeared trivial quickly became a desperate situation. He remembers people coming out of the ground and going into his house and phoning people. "Sometimes, it's more of a social thing than a football thing. "[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. [2] The main stand was described as a "mammoth structure", but was unusual for its time because of its place on the side of a hill. Club coach Terry Yorath incurred minor injuries while taking part in the rescue. It will stay in my memory for ever. Agree with the above, the most horrific scenes ever seen at football. Ernest Normington (74) She told the schoolchildren how she had travelled widely in the years after her husband and sons had gone, how that helped sustain her, and how they must think to travel and discover the world too. 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. Published: 3/3/2022 2:42:05 PM. Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. on: May 11, 2012, 10:28:10 am . The referee blew his whistle to stop the game and told us to get back to the dressing room, recalled City midfielder John Hendrie some years later. 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. He had to undergo counselling and was unable to go to another game for several years. "[28], West Yorkshire Metropolitan County Council was found to have failed in its duty under the Fire Precautions Act 1971. [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. [10] The call was timed at 3:43pm. Together, flanked by undocumented supporters, they managed to clear all but one person who made it to the front of the stand. Helm later described the start of the fire in an interview to the Express newspaper: .mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 40px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}, [A] man over from Australia visiting his son got two tickets to the game. [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. He agreed that the inquiry into Bradford, led by the judge Oliver Popplewell, was inadequate and that there are many unanswered questions. 56 football fans went to watch a match at the Valley Parade football Ground this day 27 years ago, and didn't come back. All you could see was a black cloud, all you could hear was sirens and screams and all you could smell was burning.. Death Notice. 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. There was a documentary on local Yorkshire TV a couple of years ago, the guy who does the weather reports here was at the game as a youngster. Down there in the blackness lay tissues of debris which were testament to the ramshackle stadium's neglect. Gerald tragically died in the Bradford City stadium fire on 11th May 1985 along with his sons, Richard and Robert. 6/22/2021 - AP Kit Manager: Dom Lister. Some laughs puncture the rapt silence of the 75 minutes at Bradford's Alhambra theatre studio. 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). 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. "Take care if you are in the area and allow space for the crews . Regional Scout (Midlands): Stan Martin. 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. 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. Ian says that Bantamspast is about much more than just the football: "It's where people come socially. [31] In 1988, the first compensation payments were made to survivors of the fire, with over 40 people receiving up to 40,000 each. 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. 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. A total of 56 people - 54 Bradford fans and two. [27], Explaining his decision, Sir Joseph Cantley stated: "As I have already stated, the primary duty was on the Club and the functions of the County Council were supervisory and its liability is for negligent breach of a common law duty arising out of the way in which they dealt with or ignored their statutory powers. Bradford Fire. It's with that in mind that Ian's Bantamspast project is underway in Bradford. We were sat in our football kit, we didnt know what to do. by Colburn_Claret Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 am, Post by bfcmik Fri May 11, 2018 11:05 am, Post . The JCT600 Stand will be open as well during the day to give fans the opportunity for some quiet reflection on this day of remembrance. ? pic.twitter.com/VkqiAEXBR8, billy clarke (@billyclarke7) May 11, 2016. by Lord Beamish Fri May 11, 2018 12:44 am, Post Bradford Council has tweeted: "@WYFRS are dealing with a fire within one of the buildings at a school on Thornton View Road BD14. 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. As Bantams Community Manager, Ian hopes it will reveal what people living around the ground really think. Anne Robinson (pictured with Mr Ormondroyd) moved into the family home near Bradford, West Yorkshire, to care for his wife Donna. But Ms Ibrahim saw her husband on her TV set, on the Valley Parade half way line, helping stretcher some of the injured away to safety. Rush Gaming Limited, Level 3, 203, BMW Building, Rue DArgens, Gzira GZR 1368, Malta. Supporters either ran upwards to the back of the stand or downwards to the pitch to escape. In terms of property types, flats in Ormondroyd Avenue sold for an average of 43,868 and terraced houses for 78,013. 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. The explosion and fire was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. at Student Transportation of America (formerly Valley Transportation) located at 2345 Route 114 in Bradford, the state fire marshal's office said. Edmond Fletcher (63) That was nothing compared with the time it took to interview witnesses in the Hillsborough Inquiry.". A large fire broke out Thursday morning after an apparent explosion at a commercial building complex in Bradford. [4], Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985. Many were burnt to death at the turnstiles gates, which had also been locked after the match had begun. He lost his father John, 34, his 11-year-old brother Andrew, uncle Peter, 32, and grandfather Eddie, 63, in the fire. ", 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.". 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. I've never seen anything like it. If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can People who had escaped the fire then tried to assist their fellow supporters. 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 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. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. Bradford City Community Foundations Unheard Voices project is producing a book and 15-minute film on the residents experiences on that fateful day. 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. 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