Bradford City Fire Disaster

[El Morto La Hoja!]

24 years ago today. 56 people died.

RIP

[gt]

Indeed, RIP to the Bradford and Lincoln fans who died.

[El Morto La Hoja!]

i believe my grandpa was at the game.

[GresleyRam©®™]

I watched this as it happened live on TV - sickening tragedy!

RIP

[ovechkin8]

A tragedy that need not have happenend. RIP the dead.

[GresleyRam©®™]

ACKROYD, John Douglas 32 Baildon,
ANDERTON, Edmund 68 Bingley,
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,
FIRTH, Muriel 56 Baildon,
FIRTH, Samuel 86 Bradford,
FLETCHER, Andrew 11 East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire,
FLETCHER, Edmond 63 Pudsey,
FLETCHER, John 34 East Bridgford, Nottinghamshire,
FLETCHER, Peter 32 Gildersome,
FORSTER, Nellie 64 Bradford,
GREENWOOD, Felix Winspear 13 Denholme,
GREENWOOD, Peter 46 Denholme,
GREENWOOD, Rupert Benedict 11 Denholme,
HALL, Norman 71 Bradford,
HALLIDAY, Peter Anthony 34 Bradford,
HARTLEY, Arthur 79 Bradford,
HINDLE, Edith 79 Bradford,
HINDLE, Frederick 76 Bradford,
HODGSON, Moira Helen 15 Oakenshaw,
HUDSON, Eric 72 Bingley,
HUGHES, John 64 Bradford,
HUTTON, John 74 Bradford,
KERR, Walter 76 Bradford,
LOVELL, Peter Charles 43 Bradford,
LUDLAM, Jack 55 Bradford,
McPHERSON, Gordon Stuart 39 Bradford,
McPHERSON, Irene 28 Bradford,
MASON, Roy 74 Silsden,
MIDDLETON, Frederick Norman 84 Bradford,
MITCHELL, Harold 79 Bradford,
MUHL, Elizabeth 21 Leeds,
NORMINGTON, Ernest 74 Shipley,
ORMONDROYD, Gerald Priestley 40 Bingley,
ORMONDROYD, Richard John 12 Bingley,
ORMONDROYD, Robert Ian 12 Bingley,
POLLARD, Sylvia Lund 69 Bradford,
PRICE, Herbert 78 Shipley,
ROBERTS, Amanda Jayne 20 Bradford,
SAMPSON, Jane 18 Leeds,
STACEY, William 72 Sleaford, Lincolnshire,
STOCKMAN, Craig Albert 14 Bradford,
STOCKMAN, Jane Ashley 16 Bradford,
STOCKMAN, Trevor John 38 Brighouse,
TURNER, Howard Malcolm 41 Bingley,
TURNER, Sarah Elizabeth 16 Bingley,
WARD, Simon Neil 18 Shipley,
WEDGEWORTH, Robert 72 Guiseley,
WEST, William James 78 North Hykeham, Lincoln,
WRIGHT, Adrian Mark 11 Bradford,

Just look at those names - so many young children, and several generations of families wiped out.

It doesnt get remembered in the way other 'higher profile' tragedies do - no full page spreads, no week long build ups, no editorial space - but this fooball fan wont forget it.

[PASTIE]

Agreed.

I watched that one live on TV too, doubly weird as I had been in Valley Parade with my Dad watching Argyle the week before. We were generally commenting at the time that the stand was a state, a rickety old wooden affair and that the corridor at the back where you came in and got out was a dark, narrow, unpleasant trap. As it emerged that was where lots died.

The really weird thing was that I was at home watching it on Grandstand and my Mum had been out in a supermarket or something and had insisted on coming straight home as she had a feeling that something terrible had happened. This was far from normal behaviour from my Mum. She arrived home to find me getting very disturbed by the shots of the stand we'd been in the week before collapsing in flames. Not a word of a lie.

A horrible story. You're right it isn't acknowledged as it should be.

[C@V]

And you don't see the people of Bradford banging on about justice every 5 mins! Scousers should all have a nice big cup of.................SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[El Morto La Hoja!]

May 12, 2009 8:52:36 GMT -1 C@V said:

And you don't see the people of Bradford banging on about justice every 5 mins! Scousers should all have a nice big cup of.................SHUT THE FUCK UP!

harsh but possibly true....

[PASTIE]

Best just ignored...

[C@V]

May 13, 2009 18:51:36 GMT -1 PASTIE said:

Best just ignored...

Come here and say that.........

[ancientblade]

May 12, 2009 8:52:36 GMT -1 C@V said:

And you don't see the people of Bradford banging on about justice every 5 mins! Scousers should all have a nice big cup of.................SHUT THE FUCK UP!

Cav, sometimes you really do let yourself down.

[crawleyred]

Terrible horror. Some people say the whole fire was caused by 1 cigarette lighting up litter

[PASTIE]

May 14, 2009 13:36:58 GMT -1 C@V said:

May 13, 2009 18:51:36 GMT -1 PASTIE said:

Best just ignored...

Come here and say that.........

*sighs*

[GresleyRam©®™]

May 14, 2009 19:32:02 GMT -1 @crawleyred said:

Terrible horror. Some people say the whole fire was caused by 1 cigarette lighting up litter

no creepz - that IS what happened. A single fag fell beneath the stand into some litter and that was that!

[PASTIE]

May 14, 2009 20:27:39 GMT -1 GresleyRam©®™ said:

May 14, 2009 19:32:02 GMT -1 @crawleyred said:

Terrible horror. Some people say the whole fire was caused by 1 cigarette lighting up litter

no creepz - that IS what happened. A single fag fell beneath the stand into some litter and that was that!

And when I think back to some of the old wooden stands we used to sit in, most of which hadn't been swept since world war two, it was probably an accident waiting to happen. The old Oxford United ground was just the same; I seem to remember Leyton Orient being like it, and they still have one at Exeter City - a real period piece but well overdue for demolition.

[GresleyRam©®™]

May 14, 2009 20:29:51 GMT -1 PASTIE said:

May 14, 2009 20:27:39 GMT -1 GresleyRam©®™ said:

no creepz - that IS what happened. A single fag fell beneath the stand into some litter and that was that!

And when I think back to some of the old wooden stands we used to sit in, most of which hadn't been swept since world war two, it was probably an accident waiting to happen. The old Oxford United ground was just the same; I seem to remember Leyton Orient being like it, and they still have one at Exeter City - a real period piece but well overdue for demolition.

very true - Cambridge was another.

[C@V]

Palace still have wooden seats lol! They need to get Kirsty Allsop round for a revamp!

[ancientblade]

There was also a fire at Nottingham Forest in the late 1960s. They were playing Leeds at the time and I think the match was abandoned at half time (score was 1-1). Not sure how that one started, but virtually the whole of their main stand burnt down. Fortunately, I don't think there was a single casualty that day. I can only assume it spread a lot more slowly than the Bradford fire did.