Bradford Markets History

“Hands Off Kirkgate Market” for the benefit of the stranger this is the battle slogan of  protest group, a movement started by tenants of the market and so far supported by some of the 25,000 signatures to retain the structure in its present form…………

Tenants of Bradfords 100 year old Kirkgate Market are to present a petition to the town clerk……

After a two and a half hour meeting yesterday. Bradfords City Development committee reaffirmed its decision that a Preston-based company should carry out the redevelopment of Kirkgate Market…..

Bradfords exciting new-style ‘open’ market should be the prototype of others throughout the country………….

Bradfords new John Street Market – already nicknamed the ‘beehive’ because of its layout and shape………………..

Bradfords first reservoir was a tank 21ft by 18ft  and seven feet deep , holding 15,000 gallons of water when full…..

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Stallholders in the John Street Open Market, Bradford, reacted in a gloomily fatalistic way to the announcement of rent charges in the new market when it opens this summer……..

Merchants at St James Wholesale Fruit & Vegetable Market in Bradford were up in arms today over the lack of snow clearance of the site…….

Letter from A Bairstow………