To take part in the project, email paula.helliwell@gmail.com by December 16. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. Down there in the blackness lay tissues of debris which were testament to the ramshackle stadium's neglect. by groove Fri May 11, 2018 10:48 pm, Post by tim_noone Thu May 10, 2018 11:42 pm, Post 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. Crowds on the pitch at the Valley Parade stadium after a stand caught fire Getty Images. It's good that they're all remembered. Footage of the accident at this point shows levels of confusion among the spectatorswhile many were trying to escape or to cross the pitch to the relative safety of the neighbouring stands, other spectators were observed cheering or waving to the still-rolling pitchside cameras. 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. Original television coverage of the fire, as caught by cameras covering the match. on: May 11, 2012, 10:28:10 am . We didnt know at this point if anyone had been killed. Eric Hudson (72) On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It occurred during a league match, on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. 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. Peter Fletcher (32) Scott Richard Advertisement The fire broke out around 10:30 a.m. at the site. 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. Ran. 05/12/15 AT 9:58 AM BST. 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. The speed of the fire was astonishing. Fifty-four Bradford City supporters and two Lincoln fans would die in the horror, the youngest were three 11-year old boys, the oldest being the clubs former chairman, Sam Firth who was 86. I go to the football with my two children (both adults now) and have done for many,many years. "Yes," he told the inquiry when asked if he was "cautious" about the conclusion he had made about a match causing the fire. Elizabeth JONES. [32] Speaking at the close of the case, the Judge said "They (the club) were at fault, no one in authority seemed to have appreciated the fire hazard. There was talk of "a raincoat smell" about 15.40pm that afternoon, as the fire took hold. Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. Horrific, harrowing scenes intensified by the speed at which the fire spread. In a world of my own. 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. Tributes have been pouring in from all corners of the footballing world as today marks 31 years since the Bradford City fire disaster. [10] The call was timed at 3:43pm. [10][16] More than 265 supporters were injured. I've never seen anything like it. If you have a complaint about the editorial content which relates to Club coach Terry Yorath incurred minor injuries while taking part in the rescue. The stand had already been condemned, and the demolition teams were due to start work two days later. 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. 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 . This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. [49], Parrs Wood Press published Four Minutes to Hell: The Story of the Bradford City Fire (2005) by author Paul Firth;[50] the title refers to the estimated time it took for the stand to be completely ablaze from the first flames being spotted. 28 years today; the Bradford City fire disaster. When this house was purchased in December 2020 the House Price Index for WEST YORKSHIRE was 129.5. Men, women and children all helped. He remembers people coming out of the ground and going into his house and phoning people. RIP. Bradford Council has tweeted: "@WYFRS are dealing with a fire within one of the buildings at a school on Thornton View Road BD14. [10][11], Bradford's Telegraph & Argus newspaper published a souvenir issue for 11 May, entitled, "Spit and Polish for the Parade Ground". 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. He lost his father John, 34, his 11-year-old brother Andrew, uncle Peter, 32, and grandfather Eddie, 63, in the fire. He is quoted as saying: "I don't believe the statement of retired Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer at all. 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. One, now re-situated to that end of the stand where the fire began, is a sculpture donated on the initial re-opening of Valley Parade in December 1986 by Sylvia Graucob, a then Jersey-based former West Yorkshire woman. There were a lot of wooden stands in those days, PNE Bury to name but two. April 13, 2010, 07:39:58 pm The Valley Parade fire. There are . Regional Scout (South): Chris Finn. There were many cases of heroism, with more than 50 people later receiving police awards or commendations for bravery. Simon Neil Ward (18) Head of Sports Science: Greg Stebbings. Watching it I asked myself why people didn't use the rear exits and what those late people were doing all that time, apparently the rear exits were boarded or padlocked. [22], Immediately after the fire, Sharpe planned and treated the injuries of over 200 individuals, with many experimental treatments being used. Many were burnt to death at the turnstiles gates, which had also been locked after the match had begun. All you could see was a black cloud, all you could hear was sirens and screams and all you could smell was burning.. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Their initial aim at that time was to promote BCFC in the community by increasing the fan base and awareness of the Club. The Valley Parade fire took hold, it has always been said, because a match must have been dropped into the reservoir of rubbish in the dark cavity beneath the main stand's seats. The way football is run is, and always has been, scandalous. [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. 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. It was during this treatment that Sharpe began to develop the Bradford Sling,[21] which applies even pressure across sensitive areas. The Bradford City stadium fire was the worst fire disaster in the history of football. 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.. 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. Otherwise, I would not have been able to get out. Two men were critically injured in an explosion and fire at a commercial building in Bradford, New Hampshire, on Thursday. 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. We will remember them. John Fletcher (34) The stadium was known for its antiquated design and facilities, which included the wooden roof of the main stand. I walked past a public telephone outside the ground and there were queues of people waiting to ring home. Stating nobody could be that unlucky in regards Heginbothams history with fires. At Valley Parade there are now two memorials. Whether they don't feel welcome, for instance. Police worked until 4am the next morning, under lighting, to remove all the bodies. Yes it is I try to leave a scarf and floral tribute on behalf of Burnley fans.and will do so tomorrow. "[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. On Thursday, department officials . As CT mentioned earlier it is seeing the names of family groups who perished that day,having just probably set off as normal from home around lunch time for not just the game but the joy and excitement of a promotion party, that really gets to me. He survived but clearly his life was also shattered on that day. 25 years ago and I'm sure, like Hillsborough, it's still fresh in the mind of a . Anne Robinson (pictured with Mr Ormondroyd) moved into the family home near Bradford, West Yorkshire, to care for his wife Donna. View James Ormondroyd's profile on LinkedIn, the world's largest professional community. "Thank you. Registered in England & Wales | 01676637 |. Post The children were still nestled under the warden's thick overcoat when they discovered them. We had to run up the stairs, through the office doors and out onto the street. His afternoon intersected with that of Preston, who was in an ambulance on his way to St Luke's hospital to be treated for burns when a 12-year-old was bundled aboard, concerned only at the moment to know "how did Leeds United get on" that day. But it is Bradford, so they are just lying there, dormant, on the file, along with the question of the nine Heginbotham fires. Never seen the death roll that's horrendous the Ormondroyd family looks like Father and his two twins. So do the sounds of some of those 150 people present, packing the little theatre's benches to capacity, needing to leave the dark space and take a moment to recover themselves. Ernest Normington (74) "When I read the Popplewell transcripts I could see they were processing 10-15 witnesses a day. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 10:08 pm, Post [36], In 2010, Susan Fletcher's son and survivor of the Bradford City fire (and witness to the Hillsborough disaster), Martin Fletcher, openly criticised the club's hierarchy at the time of the fire and the subsequent investigation. But the scene became progressively horrendous, grotesque, and I was having to describe things you couldnt possibly imagine.. Roy Mason (74) Walter Kerr (76) 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 by Colburn_Claret Fri May 11, 2018 5:38 am, Post The Independent Magazine's own investigations, at the National Archive at Kew, bear out the nagging suspicions Fletcher always had. Bradford fan David Pendleton, then aged 21, was at the game that day in the main stand and remembers how something which initially appeared trivial quickly became a desperate situation. No follow up question. ClaretMoffitt Posts: 3889 Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:19 pm . Gregg Ormondroyd has denied sleeping with his sick wife's carer. 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. These are the kinds of loose ends which would now be investigated to the end of the earth by the Hillsborough team. RF 2FMDJ1J - Jake Trueman (6) of Castleford Tigers is tackled by Jack Ormondroyd (25) of Salford Red Devils. The scriptwriters' hours of interviews with those caught up in the horror are distilled into the narratives of three survivors, and the casual horrors of what befell football supporters that day are all in there. The director of that organisation, Dr David Woolley, was interviewed for just two hours by the inquiry team, and his private papers reveal his desperate rush to assemble information into a report for Popplewell. 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. 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. Of all the Fletcher family who attended the game that day, 12-year old Martin was the only survivor. [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. 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. Forest Green new stadium going to be made out of wood. Martin Fletcher, a survivor who lost 3 family members is convinced of it. Nellie Forster (64) It was nearly double the season's average of 6,610 and included 3,000fans in the ground's main stand. The blaze broke. [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. Head Physiotherapist: Dayle Avison. A capacity 6,000 crowd attended a multi-denominational memorial service, held on the pitch in the sunny shadow of the burnt out stand at Valley Parade in July 1985. "We're trying to find out why a lot of the Asian communities don't come to the ground, whether they feel they can't come to the games because they feel intimidated or whatever.". Co-writer Matt Stevens-Woodhead had been asked to talk about the play to children at the local Parkside School a few weeks earlier and that had been the catalyst for Hazel Greenwood to return there too. 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. The Bradford Disaster Appeal fund, set up within 48hours of the disaster, eventually raised over 3.5million (11.3million today). We talk in the anonymous surroundings of his publisher's, in Bloomsbury's Bedford Square. 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. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. -- A hotel under construction in Bradford is considered a total loss after a fire overnight. Ian Ormondroyd CEO at Bradford City FC Community Foundation Bradford Bradford City FC Community Foundation David ORMONDROYD Account Executive at Planet Ottawa, ON Planet, +4 more Carleton. His son, Jack, plays rugby league for the Salford Red Devils in the Super League.[5][6][7]. [13], The match kicked off at 3:04pm and after forty minutes of the first half, the score remained 00,[14] in what was described as a drab affair with neither team threatening to score. Or as a football commentator for that matter. Some of the people in the session were not familiar with the disaster and were shocked by what they saw, most noticeably the speed in which the fire spread, as there was a stopwatch in the corner of the screen. He remembers people coming out of the ground and going into his house and phoning people. James has 2 jobs listed on their profile. [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. 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