[17], One witness saw paper or debris on fire, about nine inches (230mm) below the floor boards. [5] However, he also warned the club of a build-up of litter beneath the stand because of a gap between the seats. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience the local community. The Documentary highlighted the 'poison pen letters' and graffiti targeted at the then club chairman Stafford Heginbotham over accusations that he was in some way personally responsible for the deaths of the 56 people who died at the fire.[54]. 15 Dec 2020. It's thirty three years since those horrific scenes at valley parade.young Lads dads and grandads young girls and women perished.56.and over 250 injured lets remember and not forget them. Some had been crushed as they tried to crawl under turnstiles to escape. 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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 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. "Storage of paint implicated but no evidence of storage beneath the stand. England won the re-match 64. 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. Ian Ormondroyd, Bradford City Community Foundation manager and former Bantams striker, echoed the call for residents to come forward and contribute to the project. ", Ian Ormondroyd is searching for Valley Parade memories, A Bradford landmark - and a focus for many memories. "That made me angry: that people don't know about this.". Gerald Priestley Ormondroyd (40) Irene Mcpherson (28) Those lucky enough to escape, including players from both sides, took refuge in a pub across the road from the ground as friends and family members desperately tried to find their loved ones in the chaos. Data returned from the Piano 'meterActive/meterExpired' callback event. ", 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.". Original television coverage of the fire, as caught by cameras covering the match. ", 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.". The most horrific scenes ever on tv. 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 play reflects that it had been "the Yorkshire way" not to make a fuss, to bear a loss and move on. This Forum is the main messageboard to discuss all things Claret and Blue and beyond . I go to the football with my two children (both adults now) and have done for many,many years. The blaze, in the East Bowling area of the city, began at about 04:30 GMT. 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. The main fire safety system failed disastrously in a blaze at a Bronx apartment building in January, killing 17 people, The New York Times has found. It was a terrible, terrible tragedy and one which I often think about and certainly will never forget.. Leo Anthony Coxon (44) Anne Robinson (pictured with Mr Ormondroyd) moved into the family home near Bradford, West Yorkshire, to care for his wife Donna. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Thick, black . Used to go there regularly in the 70's as a student and it was just the same. 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. 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. [19] One fan put his jumper over a fellow supporter's head to extinguish flames. I do not include the people currently running the club, who have always displayed a great, sensitive duty to the memory of those who died. It was the place where her boys had been growing into their secondary education when the fire took them. 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 Please use the search above if you cannot find the record you require. A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. Instead, there is nothing. In respect to services offered in the Republic of Ireland, the Revenue Commissioners, under remote bookmakers License number 1013060 issued on 2nd July 2019. orty-year-old Gerald Ormondroyd also died that day, along with his 12-year old twin sons Richard and Robert, just two of ten families to lose more than one member at Valley Parade.. former Leeds United and England international Trevor Cherry. The local Bradford Telegraph and Argus has found many voices to challenge his testimony, too. Since then, it has been further re-developed and, today, Valley Parade is a modern 25,136 all-seater stadium, which is virtually unrecognisable from how it was at the time of the disaster, save for the original clubhouse that still stands beside the main stand, and the flank support wall that runs down the Hollywell Ash Lane at the "Bradford End". 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. Some laughs puncture the rapt silence of the 75 minutes at Bradford's Alhambra theatre studio. Police present in the vicinity of seats I142 and J142, where the fire was adjudged to have first taken hold, noticed it. [48] Profits from the play's run at The Edinburgh Fringe were donated to the Bradford Burns Unit. There were 49 of us who travelled to Bradford on that day and just 47 came home. If you need a guest pass please contact the ticket office at 480-727-0000 to make sure your seats are together. The way football is run is, and always has been, scandalous. From the tragic fire at Valley Parade in May 1985 to the club's slide from the Premier League to administration in more recent years, people will obviously have many memories of Bradford City FC - both positive and negative. Memorial ID. [8], The Bradford City matchday squad of players and staff consisted of Terry Yorath, Trevor Cherry, Chris Withe, Don Goodman, Eric McManus, Tony Clegg, John Hawley, Dave Evans, Bryan Edwards, John Hendrie, Mark Ellis, Stuart McCall, Peter Jackson, Bobby Campbell, Martin Singleton and Greg Abbott. by Maja Fri May 11, 2018 8:45 am, Post "So yes, it's right that these old questions be asked now. by Colburn_Claret Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 am, Post Video via Citizen. Scott Richard Advertisement The fire broke out around 10:30 a.m. at the site. No one gave it the attention it ought to have received.. .. Ian Ormondroyd, Bantamspast From the tragic fire at Valley Parade in May 1985 to the club's slide from the Premier League to administration in more recent years, people will obviously have many. Apologies if this has been posted elsewhere. I once stumbled across the radio commentary from that day on YouTube. Kit Manager: Dom Lister. Peter Anthony Halliday (34) 1985 disaster in Valley Parade Stadium, Bradford, England. We had not been told anything. Chartered Management Degree at the University of Bradford, alongside working full time in an equally . [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. There was a bit of paper on fire, but it was so small. I don't see that. It was 30 years ago. Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. [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 footage never gets any less shocking. A large fire involving thousands of scrap tyres in Bradford has caused school closures and travel disruption. 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. Police officers also assisted in the rescue attempts. Eric Hudson (72) The 1985 inquiry into the tragedy headed by Sir Oliver Popplewell concluded that it was an accident, probably started by a spectator dropping a cigarette into rubbish that had accumulated under an old timber stand. 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 . "[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. At 3.40pm, television commentator John Helm remarked upon a small fire in the main stand; in less than four minutes, with the windy conditions, the fire had engulfed the whole stand, trapping some people in their seats. 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. It was a disaster waiting to happen - wooden stand, no risers, smoking in the stand and the space underneath the stand full of paper - roof probably also had years of tar as waterproofing. The project, which began in February this year, is now. Most of the exits at the back were locked or shut and there were no stewards present to open them, but seven were forced open or found open. 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. It's with that in mind that Ian's Bantamspast project is underway in Bradford. 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. or "How unusual was that degree of rapidity?" 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. "I think the fire will play a big part in it. Thats when I thought this is time to get out of here. 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. Forest Green new stadium going to be made out of wood. by tiger76 Fri May 11, 2018 11:31 pm, Post Yes it is I try to leave a scarf and floral tribute on behalf of Burnley fans.and will do so tomorrow. A further 265 fans were injured in the blazes that day, and describe it as a traumatic memory and one of the saddest days in English football. The smoke was choking. by ClaretTony Thu May 10, 2018 11:46 pm, Post The match between Bradford City and Lincoln City, the final game of that season, had started in a celebratory atmosphere with the home team receiving the Third Division championship trophy. They were at fault, but the fault was that no-one in authority seems ever to have properly appreciated the real gravity of this fire hazard and consequently no-one gave it the attention it certainly ought to have received. Death Notice. This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. Death occurring in such numbers, in such a capricious fashion, and in the ordinary setting of a football stadium, is truly horrifying. I've never seen anything like it. . [4], Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985. Probably the most horrific scenes I have ever seen in football. Never to be forgotten ACKROYD, John Douglas 32 Baildon ANDERTON, Edmund 68 Bingley BAINES, Alexander Shaw 70 Bradford BAMFORD, Herbert 72 Bradford To take part in the project, email paula.helliwell@gmail.com by December 16. Their initial aim at that time was to promote BCFC in the community by increasing the fan base and awareness of the Club. Forty-year-old Gerald Ormondroyd also died that day, along with his 12-year old twin sons Richard and Robert, just two of ten families to lose more than one member at Valley Parade.. [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. 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. It will stay in my memory for ever. Please report any comments that break our rules. by LoveCurryPies Fri May 11, 2018 9:09 am, Post Coach Terry Yorath described the events as "the worst day in my life. 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. The fire of 1985 will also certainly figure highly in Bantamspast, says Ian: "A chap rang me up about a week ago and he used to live on Cornwall Terrace, just at the back of the ground. Top. 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. Then, in the space of 120-odd seconds, it really kicked in. Others werent so lucky and headed towards the exits at back of the stands which had been locked after kick-off and this is where the many of those who died perished in the inferno. 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." A massive fire broke out at a factory in Bradford this morning 11 Footage shows flames erupting from the factory 11 The blaze broke out in the early hours of this morning Credit: Ben. The horrific scenes of people burning alive seemed to live on in an eerie silence as daylight broke over the remains of Bradford City Football Club's ground yesterday. Once we went out it was mayhem, manic, chaotic. by Spike Fri May 11, 2018 1:12 pm, Post He survived but clearly his life was also shattered on that day. by bfcmik Fri May 11, 2018 11:05 am, Post However, when Bradford City won promotion to the highest level of English football, Division One, in 1908, club officials sanctioned an upgrade programme. It's the Ormondroyd & Stockman names that get to me - both of them dad and two sons. Ian Ormondroyd, Bantamspast From the tragic fire at Valley Parade in May 1985 to the club's slide from the Premier League to administration in more recent years, people will obviously have many. [45] PCs Peter Donald Barrett and David Charles Midgley, along with spectators Michael William Bland and Timothy Peter Leigh received the Queen's Commendation for Brave Conduct. Topic: 25 years ago today, the Bradford City disaster. Fire crews from . He said: We just want to try to reach out to the local community around the ground and see if anybody out there that remembers the day can come forward and talk about it.. In 1999, ex-professional footballer, Ian Ormondroyd, was asked by the Club to lead and grow the Foundation. Thats when everybody else had the same thought. They all ventured back. We couldnt run back down the tunnel. I'm 27 and can't remember seeing it but I know there'll be people on these boards who will and can remind people of what happened on that tragic day. He established that there had been eight other fires at businesses owned by or associated with the entrepreneur, who > died in 1995, aged 61. The project, which began in February this year, is now looking to hear from residents who helped with the rescue effort on the day. "[33], Central to the test case were two letters sent to Bradford City's Club Secretary by the West Yorkshire Fire Brigade; the second letter dated 18 July 1984 specifically highlighted in full the improvements needed to be actioned at the ground as well as the fire risk at the main stand. Bradford Fire. Edmond Fletcher (63) Performance Analyst and Player Welfare Officer: Robbie Bloodworth. I asked the director to get the camera to go a little closer. 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). When a memorial service was held on the pitch later in summer, part of it was in Urdu and Punjabi in recognition. Published on 28/02/2023. I remember watching it unfold on tv, it was heartbreaking. Fifty-six people died. "[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. Performance Analyst: Scott Dyer. "The family photographs seemed to mock you, too. By the time they got back, the whole thing had taken off. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 8:54 am, Post Frederick Hindle (76) by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 9:25 am, Post Jane Sampson (18) Following the hearing in 1986, a test case was brought against the club by David Britton, a police sergeant serving on the day, and by Susan Fletcher, who lost her husband John, 11-year-old son Andrew, John's brother Peter and his father Edmond in the fire. 10th Apr, 2021. It's hard to avoid the sense that Fletcher might have done, had it not been for that fateful May afternoon, which took away so many of the buttresses of his life. It was the brainchild of Bradford City fan Lloyd Spencer with all profits going to the Bradford Royal Infirmary Burns Unit.[43]. "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. BBC West Yorkshire: Bradford City And, before we knew it, the flames were racing down the whole stand. Derek Dempsey (46) Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile. [10][16] More than 265 supporters were injured. [16] Messages of condolence were also received from Helmut Kohl, Chedli Klibi and Felipe Gonzlez. He was helped out of the stand by other fans and spent a period of time in hospital. Howard Malcolm Turner (41) "The rumours of the fire came slowly and took hold slowly but when things became clear, I threw down my bags and ran. I saw the footage of the disaster as part of a fire training session and at the time it had been taken off any websites etc. "Thank you. Read more aboutresponsible gambling. "Official Featherstone Rovers RLFC Web Site First Team Squad", "Ormondroyd junior the 'big daddy' of the family at 17 stone", "Much-changed Featherstone ready for Bradford Bulls test", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Ormondroyd&oldid=1015639568, *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC), This page was last edited on 2 April 2021, at 16:48. [40] Matthew Wildman was 17 at the time and needed crutches to walk because of rheumatoid arthritis. Roy Mason (74) We were sat in our football kit, we didnt know what to do. He and his mother rattled around in the beautiful detached Nottingham home afterwards and the place "was almost mocking you, like the birds in the trees," he says. Amanda Jayne Roberts (20) This is the kind of understated remembrance we have seen in Bradford these past few months, at the onset of another significant anniversary of the 1985 fire which tore across the local football club's old wooden main stand, reducing it to a collapsing inferno in a mere four minutes and claiming 56 lives. [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. Reading back the transcript in a 21st-century, Hillsborough Inquiry environment you expect this to be the moment when Popplewell pushes Woolley to elaborate. It occurred during a league match, on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265. The 1984/85 season had been one of the most successful in Bradford City's 82-year history. But the scene became progressively horrendous, grotesque, and I was having to describe things you couldnt possibly imagine.. Lincoln City's board responded by committing 1.1million (3.5million today) to their ground's renovation in the year that immediately followed the fire at Valley Parade, and over the following decade made improvements that eventually totalled 3million. 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 was doing some research about football stadium disasters a few years ago as I find them fascinating and horrendous at the same time. Gregg Ormondroyd has denied sleeping with his sick wife's carer. Herbert Bamford (72) On Thursday, department officials . William James West (78) [53], In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled Bradford City A Year of Healing. The sling is now used internationally in the treatment of burns. 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. 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. 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. Crews received a call to Stirling Crescent west of Highway 400 around 12:25 a.m. Saturday from a. Amazing that just 18 days later the Heysel tragedy occured,a dark month for football. Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. 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. 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]. A facility that holds and maintains Kearsarge Regional School District buses exploded into flames Thursday morning trapping two people inside. I dont praise the Folk of Yorkshire cheaply, but their Dignity, Self Respect, and Stoicism is a great credit to them. His son, Jack, plays rugby league for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League.[5][6][7]. 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. He starts trying to explain what happened when the smoke filled the stand and he can't do it, just breaks down. Robert Wedgeworth (72) A discarded cigarette and a dilapidated wooden stand, which had survived because the club did not have the money to replace it, and accumulated paper litter, were considered to have conspired to cause the worst disaster in the history of the Football League. No follow up question. We are a self-funded charity, placed right at the heart of the city. The fire was merciless and took victims as young as 11 and as old as 86. [] I still have terrible memories of the day, but it is the humanity of those that helped us that I reflect on."[41]. 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