Bradford,
an industrial city on the edge of the moors of the Britain's
West Yorkshire Pennines, and Bronte Country, where the Bronte
sisters lived and wrote their classic novels.
Founded
sometime around the time of the Norman Conquest, the original
village of Bradford sprang up around the "Broad Ford"
crossing Bradford Beck at church bank, by the site of Bradford
Cathedral. [The stream now passes through underground tunnels
on its way to meet the River Aire near Leeds.] However, it was
not until the industrial revolution, in the late eighteenth
and nineteenth century that Bradford grew and gained importance
as a major producer of textiles and the woollen centre of the
world.
Bradford
itself is famous as the birthplace of the composer Delius, the
author and playwright J.B. Priestley, the novelist John Braine
(one of the 1950s "angry young men", and author of
"Room at the Top"), the artist David Hockney (whose
works are included in the 1853 Gallery at Saltaire, and (of
course) the Bronte sisters, (who were actually born in the village
of Thornton - now a suburb of the city to the west) before moving
on to live at Haworth (where they grew up and wrote their classic
novels - including "Wuthering Heights" and "Jane
Eyre").
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