Bradford
Bradford, situated about ten miles
west of Leeds in West Yorkshire, has a population approaching half a
million. A wool trading centre from early times, Bradford reached the
height of its prosperity with the coming of the Industrial Revolution in
the nineteenth century, when it developed into one of Yorkshire’s major
wool towns, where rows of slum housing sprang up in the shadow of smoke
blackened woollen mills, contrasting the many fine Victorian city centre
buildings founded on the wealth of the wool merchants, buildings such as
the City Hall, the Wool Exchange and St George’s hall, all designed by
local architects Lockwood and Mawson.
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