England
Things you probably didn't know about Bradford
Wool money, film firsts and the Brontës up the hill.
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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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1850 — fact 2 of 4
Wool capital of the world
"Worstedopolis" — Victorian Bradford’s mills and merchants dressed the world in worsted wool.
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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.
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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.