To take part in the project, email paula.helliwell@gmail.com by December 16. "When I read the Popplewell transcripts I could see they were processing 10-15 witnesses a day. 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. "Yes," he told the inquiry when asked if he was "cautious" about the conclusion he had made about a match causing the fire. 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. William James West (78) On 23 February 1987, Sir Joseph Cantley found the club two thirds responsible and the county council (which by this time had been abolished) one third responsible. Never seen the death roll that's horrendous the Ormondroyd family looks like Father and his two twins. Horrific way to die and as ststed some of the most harrowing scenes ever witnessed. [10] The call was timed at 3:43pm. Within a few hours of the blaze starting, it was established that 56 people had been killed, many as a result of smoke inhalation, although some of them had survived until reaching hospital.[11]. He was Leicester's record signing in 1992 when he joined from Derby for 350,000. 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. 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. However, the responsibility of the Club is, in my view, very much the greater and I apportion responsibility between the two defendants as to two-thirds on the first defendant and one-third on the third (sic) defendant. Head of Sports Science: Greg Stebbings. 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." by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:53 pm, Post 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. The smoke was choking. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Ormondroyd played for Bradford City, Oldham Athletic, Aston Villa, Derby County, Leicester City, Hull City and Scunthorpe United. A truly horrific day which should never be forgotten. No, argues her husband, insulated as he was from that momentary horror his wife felt. RM 2F7YJ1C - Eccles, UK. Memorial ID. [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. 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. A former Bradford City player is asking for people's memories of the club's past - both good and bad. It's why he gravitated to London and the enclosed spaces, moving to Brixton when his first base became gentrified. 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. by Silkyskills1 Fri May 11, 2018 1:36 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. Police have revealed the identity of the man who they believe was responsible for . [8][10] Three men smashed down one door and at least one exit was opened by people outside, which again helped prevent further deaths. That certainly changed when Martin Fletcher told his story. Lincoln City suffered two successive relegations, first to the Fourth Division in 1986, and again in 1987, becoming the first team to be automatically relegated from the Football League itself. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. 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. 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. by Lord Beamish Fri May 11, 2018 12:44 am, Post 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.. ", On 26 January 2016, the IPCC declined calls for an investigation and published its full response online. "Thank you. ", 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.". After just four minutes of the initial blaze starting the wooden stand was fully ablaze as many of the 3,000 people sitting there escaped by climbing over the perimeter fence onto the pitch the subsequent inquiry into the disaster concluded the fire spread faster than a man could run.. The most horrific scenes ever on tv. But it was too late for the 56 fans that went to a football match and never returned who are still remembered, not just by those in Bradford and Lincoln, but by football fans throughout the country. That was nothing compared with the time it took to interview witnesses in the Hillsborough Inquiry.". Didn't realise gabby Logan was doing a documentary now on BT To Add there were some nice floral tributes there today. However, when Bradford City won promotion to the highest level of English football, Division One, in 1908, club officials sanctioned an upgrade programme. The fans even say, 'I'm not particularly liking what I'm seeing on the field at the moment, but I enjoy the company of Billy and John'. Please report any comments that break our rules. Fletcher has taken facts and presented them in such a way that it should make it moralistically impossible for this incident not to be looked at again. Although some attributed Lincoln City's sudden demise to the psychological effects of the fire on its players (together with the resignation of successful manager Colin Murphy shortly before the fire), it symbolised the wider crisis that the introduction of new safety legislation brought to Lincoln's Sincil Bank home. It was a massive tragedy for everybody at the club.". [4], Although there had been some changes to other parts of the ground, the main stand remained unaltered by 1985. Howard Malcolm Turner (41) Topic: 25 years ago today, the Bradford City disaster. Valley Parade during the early 1990s, after it had been redeveloped following the fire. IN MEMORIAM. "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. [51] Another book; 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (2015) was written by Martin Fletcher to discuss how the disaster was caused, and follows his loss of his father, brother, uncle and grandfather. Yes it is I try to leave a scarf and floral tribute on behalf of Burnley fans.and will do so tomorrow. www.fansbet.com is operated by Rush Gaming Limited (a company registered in Malta) and is regulated by the Malta Gaming Authority, Licence Number MGA/B2C/701/2019 issued on 30th March 2020. I once stumbled across the radio commentary from that day on YouTube. Regional Scout (Midlands): Stan Martin. First-Team Therapist: Nick Akerman. Ernest Normington (74) The stand became an inferno in about 5 minutes. Even if you're in a small town, it's the main focal point," says Ian Ormondroyd. Fifty-six people died. I've never seen anything like it. Otherwise, I would not have been able to get out. 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. For the first-minute people were laughing and joking, it wasnt anything serious, he told the BBC in 2015. Share. You must log in or register to reply here. 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. by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:42 pm, Post [11], The disaster also had a long-lasting effect on the fans. Ran. Footage never fails to shock me. In March 1985 the club's plans became more apparent when it took delivery of steel for a new roof. 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. [8][9] In the crowd were local dignitaries and guests from three of Bradford's twin townsVerviers in Belgium, and Mnchengladbach and Hamm in West Germany. Applying this 18.457% change to the original purchase price of 48,000 results in an estimated price of approximately 56,859. I walked past a public telephone outside the ground and there were queues of people waiting to ring home. The main stand at Bradford was not surrounded by fencing, and therefore most of the spectators in it could escape onto the pitch if they had been penned in then the death toll would inevitably have been in the hundreds if not the thousands. Two or three burly men put their weight against it and smashed the gate open. JONES Elizabeth (Betty) On 6th February 2023 Betty passed away peacefully at Vida Hall Nursing. The 1985 Bradford City A.F.C stadium fire is regarded as one of the worst disasters in the history of British football. 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. 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. It was the place where her boys had been growing into their secondary education when the fire took them. The majority of sales in Ormondroyd Avenue during the last year were semi-detached properties, selling for an average price of 130,000. 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. Gambling can be addictive. [10] Bradford City's coach Terry Yorath, whose family was in the stand,[19] ran onto the pitch to help evacuate people. I was doing some research about football stadium disasters a few years ago as I find them fascinating and horrendous at the same time. 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. Edmund Anderton (68) This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. ClaretMoffitt Posts: 3889 Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:19 pm . I got pushed down to the front and I remember looking around and suddenly this smouldering, small fire had taken over virtually half a block and was starting to hit the roof. People who had escaped the fire then tried to assist their fellow supporters. People know me here. HP10 9TY. Bradford City players, staff and fans gathered today to remember the victims of the Valley Parade fire, which took place exactly 31 years ago. 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. Ian says that Bantamspast is about much more than just the football: "It's where people come socially. Still one of the two or three most haunting videos I've ever seen. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 13:41. RIP. Irene Mcpherson (28) [22], Immediately after the fire, Sharpe planned and treated the injuries of over 200 individuals, with many experimental treatments being used. Firefighters from across West Yorkshire tackle huge blaze A large fire involving thousands of scrap tyres has forced schools to close and caused traffic disruption in Bradford. by Herts Clarets Fri May 11, 2018 12:21 pm, Post 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. Bradford City initially prospered in the Second Division only missing out on promotion to the First Division in 1988 after failing to beat Ipswich Town at home on the final day of their first full season back at Valley Parade. 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. Published: 3/3/2022 2:42:05 PM. One retired mill worker made his way to the pitch, but was walking about on fire from head to foot. Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. Spare a thought or prayer for them today. Chartered Management Degree at the University of Bradford, alongside working full time in an equally . However, the fire had consumed the stand entirely by that point and they were faced with huge flames and very dense smoke. A police officer shouted to a colleague for an extinguisher, but his call was misheard and instead the fire brigade were radioed. Once we went out it was mayhem, manic, chaotic. ("And Dad being Dad, he blagged it all like a dream."). A further 265 fans were injured in the blazes that day, and describe. Read more aboutresponsible gambling. We are a self-funded charity, placed right at the heart of the city. . Gregg Ormondroyd has denied sleeping with his sick wife's carer. There is no malicious vendetta, there is no over-exaggeration, there are no trumped-up facts. by Spike Fri May 11, 2018 1:12 pm, Post As Ian puts it: "Bradford's been on a big rollercoaster over the past ten years and previously. [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. They were donated by Bradford's twin city of Hamm, Germany, and are situated in front of Bradford City Hall in both locations. ER 2005 . Top. The explosion and fire was reported shortly after 10:30 a.m. at Student Transportation of America (formerly Valley Transportation) located at 2345 Route 114 in Bradford, the state fire marshal's office said. Thoughts and prayers to the 56 who lost their lives in this truly awful and harrowing tragedy. All that was left of the. The disaster led to rigid new safety standards in UK stadiums, including the banning of new wooden grandstands. We talk in the anonymous surroundings of his publisher's, in Bloomsbury's Bedford Square. John Fletcher (34) Naquin's 3-run homer in 9th gives Reds 10-7 win over Twins The Cincinnati Reds didn't look drained to manager David Bell, despite this recent slide. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's He was helped out of the stand by other fans and spent a period of time in hospital. Kit Manager: Dom Lister. Andrew Fletcher (11) 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. 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. Adrian Mark Wright (11). 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. It was a massive tragedy for everybody at the club.". 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. Today we remember the 56 fans who tragically lost their lives in the Bradford fire disaster 31 years ago. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. Some of those back in Bradford have not welcomed his turning over of the stones. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. 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]. [11] Those who escaped were taken out of the ground to neighbouring homes and a pub, where a television screened World of Sport, which broadcast video recorded of the fire just an hour after it was filmed. He starts trying to explain what happened when the smoke filled the stand and he can't do it, just breaks down. He established that there had been eight other fires at businesses owned by or associated with the entrepreneur, who > died in 1995, aged 61. [7] As it was the first piece of league silverware that the club had captured since they won the Division Three (North) title 56years earlier, 11,076supporters were in the ground. Death Notice. [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. The sling is now used internationally in the treatment of burns. She was Hazel Greenwood the mother whose children, 13-year-old Felix and 11-year-old Rupert, had been ushered away from the flames of the stadium fire all those years ago by a traffic warden, seeking to shelter them under his tunic. Tickets are $20 each, and all proceeds will go toward funding the purchase of two new twin custom KME fire trucks for the department.. One day I went to a football match with my family and the next day, I woke up and didnt have a father, a brother, or a grandfather or an uncle, he would later say. The project, which began in February this year, is now looking to hear from residents who helped with the rescue effort on the day. My friend was there in the stand opposite that one. 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