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Things you probably didn't know about Bradford

Wool money, film firsts and the Brontës up the hill.

  1. 2009 — fact 1 of 4

    The world’s first UNESCO City of Film

    Bradford earned the title in 2009 for a film heritage stretching back to the Lumières’ cameramen and beyond.

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  2. 1850 — fact 2 of 4

    Wool capital of the world

    "Worstedopolis" — Victorian Bradford’s mills and merchants dressed the world in worsted wool.

  3. 1846 — fact 3 of 4

    The Brontës lived up the road

    Haworth, where the Brontë sisters wrote their novels, sits in the Bradford district’s Pennine hills.

  4. 1853 — fact 4 of 4

    A mill turned gallery

    Salt’s Mill in Saltaire — model village and all — now houses one of the world’s largest collections of David Hockney’s art.

Our Bradford collection is part of a growing local-history library — more cities and facts are being added.

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