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. by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:42 pm, Post Leo Anthony Coxon (44) 56 football fans went to watch a match at the Valley Parade football Ground this day 27 years ago, and didn't come back. by ecc Fri May 11, 2018 12:36 pm, Post [22], Immediately after the fire, Sharpe planned and treated the injuries of over 200 individuals, with many experimental treatments being used. 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. 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. [53], In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled Bradford City A Year of Healing. We talk in the anonymous surroundings of his publisher's, in Bloomsbury's Bedford Square. Among the main outcomes of the inquiry were the banning of new wooden grandstands at all UK sports grounds, the immediate closure of other wooden stands deemed unsafe and the banning of smoking in other wooden stands. "[35], The total amount of compensation to the 154 claimants was reported to be as high as 20million, with the payouts covered by insurance taken out by the club. We will remember them. That stand went up so quick youd think it was made of petrol. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 13:41. Deborah A Ormondroyd. A half dozen walked out. But a minute or so later there was suddenly a bigger whoosh of smoke so they went to get a steward. The stand became an inferno in about 5 minutes. Or for a full-blown 91-day inquiry like the one which investigated the 1987 fire at London's King's Cross St Pancras Tube station, though Bradford claimed twice as many lives. The Bradford City stadium fire was a stadium disaster that occurred during an English League Third Division fixture between Bradford City and Lincoln City on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265.. 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. Ran. RF 2J1GRGW - Liam Byrne #20 of Wigan Warriors looks for a way past Jack Ormondroyd #19 of Salford Red Devils. Remembering the Bradford fire. Their initial aim at that time was to promote BCFC in the community by increasing the fan base and awareness of the Club. A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. As Fletcher's investigations have given his book a huge profile, so its subtler components have in many ways been overlooked. By this date the appeal fund set up for survivors had paid out more than 4m with further payouts expected as the effects of physical and mental injury were determined. Two memorials now stand at Valley Parade, with another in the city centre and since that fateful day, Bradford City have played with black trim on their kit as a permanent memorial to those who lost their lives. The information on housing, people, culture, employment and education that is displayed about Ormondroyd Avenue, Bradford, BD6 1HR is based on the last census performed in the UK in 2011. [12] The work was expected to cost 400,000 (1.3million today). However, when Bradford City won promotion to the highest level of English football, Division One, in 1908, club officials sanctioned an upgrade programme. 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. Derek Dempsey (46) BBC West Yorkshire: Sport. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 10:08 pm, Post Even if you're in a small town, it's the main focal point," says Ian Ormondroyd. May 11, 2019 #12 Erebus Full Member. 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. We will review the memorials and decide if they should be merged. by ClaretTony Thu May 10, 2018 11:46 pm, Post The way football is run is, and always has been, scandalous. Valley Parade during the early 1990s, after it had been redeveloped following the fire. BARRIE, ONT. Ernest Normington (74) 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. ORMONDROYD, Richard John 12 Bingley ORMONDROYD, Robert Ian 12 Bingley POLLARD, Sylvia Lund 69 Bradford PRICE, Herbert 78 Shipley . It provides football coaching and education to young people, works with youngsters aged between 16 and 18 on the National Citizen Service and has done several projects in the local community. The CNN sports correspondent Alex Thomas was a school friend and he always asked Fletcher why he didn't have the ambition to make a go of it in that world. Andrew Fletcher (11) 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. (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. A PROJECT telling the story of the role of the community living near Valley Parade during the Bradford City fire disaster is appealing for residents to come forward. 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. 28 years today; the Bradford City fire disaster. A sad, sad day in the history of English football. Nothing surprising in the construction of the stand to give this rate of fire growth," Woolley writes in an untitled script which appears to be his own notes from the first day of Popplewell's Inquiry. 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. A police officer shouted to a colleague for an extinguisher, but his call was misheard and instead the fire brigade were radioed. 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 . Jane Ashley Stockman (16) The blaze broke. 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. 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. It's gone," he says. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. The stand had been officially condemned and was due to be replaced with a steel structure after the season ended. When cross examined by QC Robert Smith, then Chairman Stafford Heginbotham said he knew about the fire risk at the ground. 6/22/2021 - AP View Death Notice. [10] The stand seats did not have risers; this had allowed a large accumulation of rubbish and paper waste in the cavity space under the stand, which had not been cleared for many months. Walter Kerr (76) Footage never fails to shock me. "[37], Fletcher subsequently published a book in 2015, Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire which revealed a history of fires at businesses owned by the Bradford City chairman Stafford Heginbotham. [31] In 1988, the first compensation payments were made to survivors of the fire, with over 40 people receiving up to 40,000 each. As CT mentioned earlier it is seeing the names of family groups who perished that day,having just probably set off as normal from home around lunch time for not just the game but the joy and excitement of a promotion party, that really gets to me. Burning timbers and molten materials fell from the roof onto the crowd and seating below, and dense black smoke enveloped a passageway behind the stand, where many spectators were trying to escape. ", 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.". We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. Adrian Mark Wright (11). This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. 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. Football architect Archibald Leitch was commissioned to carry out the work. The entrances to the stand were all at the rear and were higher than the rest of the ground. The match was recorded by Yorkshire Television for their regional edition of the ITV Sunday afternoon football show The Big Match. Topic: 25 years ago today, the Bradford City disaster. 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. The tender that was won by the University of Bradford to create a LOD3 digital twin of the city will see the area shown within the following map captured. "Why should they not still want answers?" It is a simple account laid out for all to see. The blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. This early part of the narrative is so readable that you wonder how Fletcher, a qualified accountant, did not wind up as a writer. The horrible thing is reading that list the number of fatalities that were obviously families wiped out. 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. [26], In July 1985, an inquest was held into the deaths; at the hearings the coroner James Turnbull recommended a death by misadventure outcome, with which the jury agreed. Didn't realise gabby Logan was doing a documentary now on BT To Add there were some nice floral tributes there today. on: May 11, 2012, 10:28:10 am . 1 . Agree with the above, the most horrific scenes ever seen at football. [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. 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. The residents also helped take victims to hospital. "[16] At the front of the stand, men threw children over the wall to help them escape. 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. They were immediately promoted back to the Football League in 1988, and survived for 23 years before being relegated again in 2011. When a memorial service was held on the pitch later in summer, part of it was in Urdu and Punjabi in recognition. They were donated by Bradford's twin city of Hamm, Germany, and are situated in front of Bradford City Hall in both locations. 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. Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) RIP. People know me here. Eric Hudson (72) Trevor John Stockman (38) Amazing that just 18 days later the Heysel tragedy occured,a dark month for football. Whether they don't feel welcome, for instance. 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 extraordinary part of all this is that this testimony has barely been heard. Even if you're in a small town, it's the main focal point," says Ian Ormondroyd. One retired mill worker made his way to the pitch, but was walking about on fire from head to foot. [4] Football ground writer Simon Inglis had described the view from the stand as "like watching football from the cockpit of a Sopwith Camel" because of its antiquated supports and struts. 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. First-Team Therapist: Nick Akerman. Hundreds of others were injured. Obviously helps cigarettes banned from football grounds now as IIRC a discarded butt caused the Bradford fire. That journey back to Lincoln was the quietest and most miserable I have ever known. by ClaretMoffitt Fri May 11, 2018 9:08 am, Post The father whose burgeoning success as a metals stockholder, driving a BMW 323i, took him a long way from his roots, selling coach trips to Mablethorpe. 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). These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. Reading back the transcript in a 21st-century, Hillsborough Inquiry environment you expect this to be the moment when Popplewell pushes Woolley to elaborate. ("And Dad being Dad, he blagged it all like a dream."). [48] Profits from the play's run at The Edinburgh Fringe were donated to the Bradford Burns Unit. William Stacey (72) Chartered Management Degree at the University of Bradford, alongside working full time in an equally . by FCBurnley Fri May 11, 2018 2:53 pm, Post ? pic.twitter.com/VkqiAEXBR8, billy clarke (@billyclarke7) May 11, 2016. But it is Bradford, so they are just lying there, dormant, on the file, along with the question of the nine Heginbotham fires. Tickets are $20 each, and all proceeds will go toward funding the purchase of two new twin custom KME fire trucks for the department.. The play, entitled simply The 56, does not seek to make melodrama out of that 11 May afternoon at Valley Parade, when fans arrived to celebrate Bradford's promotion from the Football League's division 3. Jack Ludlam (55) by Pad1951 Fri May 11, 2018 9:15 am, Post "I was out shopping in Bradford and he had gone to the match," she says. 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. JavaScript is disabled. Jack Leo Coxon (76) by Maja Fri May 11, 2018 8:45 am, Post [8][10] Three men smashed down one door and at least one exit was opened by people outside, which again helped prevent further deaths. Beat the energy price rises in Ormondroyd Avenue, Bradford BD6 Yearly saving up to: 553 Detached house 415 Semi-detached house 393 End terrace house Compare energy deals We had not been told anything. 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." 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. There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. Please report any comments that break our rules. I was there 3 weeks before with Burnley. "We were concerned there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism unknown to us." Read more aboutresponsible gambling. Many were burnt to death at the turnstiles gates, which had also been locked after the match had begun. He still says to this day he cant attend another match. Criticising Bradford City during the case, Mr. Michael Ogden QC, highlighted that the Club 'gave no or very little thought to fire precautions', despite repeated warnings. by ClaretTony Fri May 11, 2018 9:05 am, Post 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. As he received the injured at Bradford Royal Infirmary he was able to call upon 10% of the UK's population of plastic surgeons. The scene in there was one of silence and shock. At Valley Parade there are now two memorials. 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. I asked the director to get the camera to go a little closer. But looking back and seeing how much it really affected my dad makes me realise what we went through." We stayed in the pub for hours. The most horrific scenes ever on tv. due to the harrowing nature. RF 2FMDJ1J - Jake Trueman (6) of Castleford Tigers is tackled by Jack Ormondroyd (25) of Salford Red Devils. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Police have revealed the identity of the man who they believe was responsible for . Part of the Appeal funds were raised by a recording of "You'll Never Walk Alone"[42] from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel by The Crowd (including Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers, who had recorded the 1963 version that led to Liverpool adopting it as their motto and team song), which reached number one in the UK Singles chart. There was no appetite for a re-enactment of events, such as that which Dublin embarked upon when a fire at the Stardust nightclub fire in Arcane claimed 48 lives in 1981. The fire was merciless and took victims as young as 11 and as old as 86. 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His father Tony went back the following day and said: "I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel guilty that I had got out when so many hadn't." Called 'The 56' the play dramatises actual accounts of the Bradford City Fire with the purpose of the play showing how in times of adversity, the Football Club and the local community came together. The local Bradford Telegraph and Argus has found many voices to challenge his testimony, too. [13], The match kicked off at 3:04pm and after forty minutes of the first half, the score remained 00,[14] in what was described as a drab affair with neither team threatening to score. The players were told to go to the pub at the top of the road, John Hendrie would later reveal. Ian Ormondroyd, Bradford City Community Foundation manager and former Bantams striker, echoed the call for residents to come forward and contribute to the project. Post 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.The stadium was known for its antiquated design and facilities, which included the wooden roof of the main stand. Scott Richard Advertisement The fire broke out around 10:30 a.m. at the site. [34], During the case, Sir Joseph Cantley stated that: "It is only right that I should say that I think it would be unfair to conclude that Heginbotham, Tordoff, the Board of Directors, or any of them, were intentionally and callously indifferent to the safety of spectators using the stand. The Popplewell Inquiry found that the club had been warned about the fire risk that the rubbish accumulating under the stand had posed. He had to undergo counselling and was unable to go to another game for several years. It was a massive tragedy for everybody at the club.". Woolley's notes again: "Many referred to the smell of burning plastics." [10] The call was timed at 3:43pm. The inquiry into the disaster, chaired by Sir Oliver Popplewell and known as the Popplewell Inquiry,[25] led to the introduction of new legislation to improve safety at the UK's football grounds. When this house was purchased in December 2020 the House Price Index for WEST YORKSHIRE was 129.5. Irene Mcpherson (28) Arthur Hartley (79) 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. 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]. It detailed the safety work which would be carried out at Valley Parade as a result of the club's promotion, admitting the ground was "inadequate in so many ways for modern requirements". "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. Frederick Hindle (76) We are trying to find people who came out of the ground and were helped by people in the community. As Bantams Community Manager, Ian hopes it will reveal what people living around the ground really think. "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. The community, principally Bangladeshi, had no links then to the football club and many could not speak English, but they still helped. Bradford Council has tweeted: "@WYFRS are dealing with a fire within one of the buildings at a school on Thornton View Road BD14. by LoveCurryPies Fri May 11, 2018 9:09 am, Post IN MEMORIAM. This Forum is the main messageboard to discuss all things Claret and Blue and beyond . Never seen the death roll that's horrendous the Ormondroyd family looks like Father and his two twins. All that was left of the. by Spike Fri May 11, 2018 1:12 pm, Post [52], On 1 May 2010, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the fire the football TV show Football Focus was hosted from Valley Parade by Dan Walker, the show included interviews with Terry Yorath and John Hendrie. Horrendous. [14] It took less than four minutes for the entire stand to be engulfed in flames.[11]. 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. As Ian puts it: "Bradford's been on a big rollercoaster over the past ten years and previously. by Imploding Turtle Fri May 11, 2018 8:35 am, Post by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 8:54 am, Post 56 fans died as a fire broke out at the game at Valley Parade, 54 Bradford supporters and two from opponents Lincoln City. A large fire involving thousands of scrap tyres in Bradford has caused school closures and travel disruption. 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. Like all areas of forensic investigations, it has come on leaps and bounds. Learn more about merges. Thats when I thought this is time to get out of here. [46], In 2014, the theatre company Funny You Should Ask (FYSA) premiered their heartfelt tribute to the 56 people who died at the fire. As Ian puts it: "Bradford's been on a big rollercoaster over the past ten years and previously. "[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. He established that there had been eight other fires at businesses owned by or associated with the entrepreneur, who > died in 1995, aged 61. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. Bradford City AFC (@officialbantams) May 10, 2016, MORE : Mark Clattenburg set to officiate Champions League final, Sean Dyche says Arsenal have the look of Premier League champions after hammering Everton, No way! Darren Bent tells Chelsea star Raheem Sterling he wouldnt get in the Arsenal team amid transfer links, I love that! 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