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. Sylvia Lund Pollard (69) Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) Arthur Hartley (79) Fifty-four Bradford City supporters and two Lincoln fans would die in the horror, the youngest were three 11-year old boys, the oldest being the clubs former chairman, Sam Firth who was 86. Tributes have been pouring in from all corners of the footballing world as today marks 31 years since the Bradford City fire disaster. He lit a cigarette and when it was coming to an end he put it down on to the floorboard and tried to put his foot on it to put it out. 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. The blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. Our mission is to provide a safe, fun and inclusive environment to inspire, educate and enable the people of Bradford to achieve their goals to their fullest potential. [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. Ran home and put the television on." The fire was merciless and took victims as young as 11 and as old as 86. This early part of the narrative is so readable that you wonder how Fletcher, a qualified accountant, did not wind up as a writer. JONES Elizabeth (Betty) On 6th February 2023 Betty passed away peacefully at Vida Hall Nursing. Eight fires in the 18 years before the Bradford City fire were identified, many catastrophic and leading to large insurance payouts. One, now re-situated to that end of the stand where the fire began, is a sculpture donated on the initial re-opening of Valley Parade in December 1986 by Sylvia Graucob, a then Jersey-based former West Yorkshire woman. Horrific way to die and as ststed some of the most harrowing scenes ever witnessed. "Sometimes, it's more of a social thing than a football thing. Frederick Hindle (76) After the fire, Bradford City also announced they would thereafter play with a black trim on their shirt sleeves as a permanent memorial to those who had died. "Yes," he told the inquiry when asked if he was "cautious" about the conclusion he had made about a match causing the fire. [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 files show how the possibility of arson was not even touched upon or tested. "Yes you've already told us you were concerned," the inquiry's QC effectively says, before he moves the conversation along. "[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. Police officers also assisted in the rescue attempts. Coach Terry Yorath described the events as "the worst day in my life. We had to run up the stairs, through the office doors and out onto the street. Community Foundation was set up in 1988 by the PFA. 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. I go to the football with my two children (both adults now) and have done for many,many years. 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 . [47] Scriptwriters of the play spent hours with the survivors and victims families. It is Mrs Ibrahim's sentiment which seems to be most prevalent in Manningham, the British Asian district bordering Valley Parade, where many locals took injured and traumatised people into their homes that day. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 9:25 am, Post "We're trying to find out why a lot of the Asian communities don't come to the ground, whether they feel they can't come to the games because they feel intimidated or whatever.". "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. Fletcher's appearance on BBC regional news programme Look North looked like an inquisition, with playback in his headphones as he spoke from a London studio contributing to the difficulty. by ashtonlongsider Fri May 11, 2018 6:28 am, Post It was his first and last football match. The majority of sales in Ormondroyd Avenue during the last year were semi-detached properties, selling for an average price of 130,000. What started as smoke rising from a r. The fire was described as the worst fire disaster in the history of British football, and the worst football related disaster since 66spectators died at Ibrox in 1971. 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. This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. The blaze broke. Chartered Management Degree at the University of Bradford, alongside working full time in an equally . 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. There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. People smothered him to extinguish the flames, but he later died of his injuries in hospital. Two or three burly men put their weight against it and smashed the gate open. That stand went up so quick youd think it was made of petrol. Bradford Township Volunteer Fire Department is raffling off a brand new truck to raise money to buy two brand new fire trucks. [1] When the association football club was formed, the ground was changed very little and had no covered accommodation. 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. Ive alway respected the quiet and dignified way that the Tragedy has been marked by the Club, the Fans(of both Bradford and Lincoln), and by Bradfordians in general. Christopher Hammond, who was 12 on the day, said on the 20th anniversary of the fire: "As a 12-year-old, it was easy to move on I didn't realise how serious it was until I looked at the press coverage over the next few days. View James Ormondroyd's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. Peter Anthony Halliday (34) The aim is to preserve these memories for posterity as part of the club's museum at Valley Parade, together with a DVD, podcasts and more. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 8:54 am, Post 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. Bradford West Gwillimbury Fire Chief Jim Kay told reporters on Monday evening that 11 people in all were taken to hospital after flames broke out in a residential building at 114 Holland St. W . The sling is now used internationally in the treatment of burns. Jane Sampson (18) "[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. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. When a memorial service was held on the pitch later in summer, part of it was in Urdu and Punjabi in recognition. Otherwise, I would not have been able to get out. Those who helped are reluctant heroes now. 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. Most of the fans who took this escape route were killed or seriously injured. Horrendous. ";s:4:"text";s:3462:" Visit us for exclusive Galen Center Special Events throughout the year! The money raised from this record was contributed to fund the internationally renowned burns unit that was established in partnership between the University of Bradford and Bradford Royal Infirmary, immediately after the fire, which has also been Bradford City's official charity for well over a decade. 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. However, as there was no real precedent, most Bradfordians accepted that the fire was a terrible piece of misfortune. Craig Albert Stockman (14) See the complete profile on LinkedIn and discover James' connections and jobs at similar companies. One retired mill worker made his way to the pitch, but was walking about on fire from head to foot. That was nothing compared with the time it took to interview witnesses in the Hillsborough Inquiry.". The stand had no perimeter fencing to keep fans from accessing the pitch, thus averting an instance of crush asphyxia as in the 1989 Hillsborough 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. [4], Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985. Nigel Adams who worked for 12 years as a fire investigator with a British fire service was spurred on by the book to join the call for a fresh inquiry, stating that Fletcher's book was "one of the best accounts of a fire, as seen from a victim's point of view, and as a piece of investigative writing, I have ever read". by Lord Beamish Fri May 11, 2018 2:35 pm, Post Club career[ edit] 05/12/15 AT 9:58 AM BST. They were donated by Bradford's twin city of Hamm, Germany, and are situated in front of Bradford City Hall in both locations. Police worked until 4am the next morning, under lighting, to remove all the bodies. More than 250 others were injured in one of the. But it is Bradford, so they are just lying there, dormant, on the file, along with the question of the nine Heginbotham fires. There actually used to be an old saying in Bradford: "If you see smoke go up in Bradford after 6pm, that'll be one of Stafford's." View Death Notice. The book also raises concerns about the speed of the inquiry and the fact that it commenced a few weeks after the fire and lasted for only a few days, whereas other inquiries into similar incidents, pre and post the Bradford fire, have taken years to come to fruition and months to be heard. I asked the director to get the camera to go a little closer. Applying this 18.457% change to the original purchase price of 48,000 results in an estimated price of approximately 56,859. 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