(2015), 2003 Football League Third Division play-off final, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bradford_City_stadium_fire&oldid=1141323458, Fire disasters involving barricaded escape routes, Pages containing London Gazette template with parameter supp set to y, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2010, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2021, Articles needing additional references from May 2018, All articles needing additional references, Articles needing additional references from December 2018, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Fan attempted to extinguish a lit cigarette, it slipped through floorboards and fell on rubbish, igniting it. David James Crabtree (30) The next day work began on clearing the burnt out shell of the stand, and Justice Popplewell released his findings into the disaster. House Prices in Ormondroyd Avenue, Wibsey, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD6 Properties in Ormondroyd Avenue had an overall average price of 128,000 over the last year. [46], In 2014, the theatre company Funny You Should Ask (FYSA) premiered their heartfelt tribute to the 56 people who died at the fire. 56 football fans went to watch a match at the Valley Parade football Ground this day 27 years ago, and didn't come back. The 1985 inquiry into the tragedy headed by Sir Oliver Popplewell concluded that it was an accident, probably started by a spectator dropping a cigarette into rubbish that had accumulated under an old timber stand. William James West (78) [19] One fan put his jumper over a fellow supporter's head to extinguish flames. Police have revealed the identity of the man who they believe was responsible for . [53], In 1986, a year after the disaster, Yorkshire Television aired a documentary presented by John Helm entitled Bradford City A Year of Healing. That duty was not a duty to the Club but a duty to the spectators and other persons in the stand. [16] Messages of condolence were also received from Helmut Kohl, Chedli Klibi and Felipe Gonzlez. by ClaretTony Fri May 11, 2018 9:05 am, Post "I feel like I've been in my 20s for years," he says and his life now south-west London flatshare, single professional seems to reflect the world of a restive soul, struggling for an anchor. It was on the 10th anniversary of the fire, 20 years ago, that Mrs Greenwood set up a fund, in the memory of her sons, offering the chance for young people in this place to take a journey of educational or cultural travel as she would have wanted her own two to do. "A football club's an integral part of the city you're in. It was appalling that public money was given to the club while it was still owned by the same shareholders under whose direction the fire had happened. I've never seen anything like it. This page was last edited on 24 February 2023, at 13:41. He became famous for his height and build, in a similar manner to that of Peter Crouch. Amazing that just 18 days later the Heysel tragedy occured,a dark month for football. This is a rise of 0.29% in the last three months (since April 2018) and fall of 0.24% since 12 months ago. Instead, there is nothing. 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. Spare a thought or prayer for them today. The deaths were preventable . Our mission is to provide a safe, fun and inclusive environment to inspire, educate and enable the people of Bradford to achieve their goals to their fullest potential. I was doing some research about football stadium disasters a few years ago as I find them fascinating and horrendous at the same time. The worst fire disaster in English football history played out on live television on May 11, after Valley Parade's main stand caught fire during a match between Bradford City and Lincoln City on . 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. due to the harrowing nature. Howard Malcolm Turner (41) A massive fire broke out at a factory in Bradford this morning 11 Footage shows flames erupting from the factory 11 The blaze broke out in the early hours of this morning Credit: Ben. The Weekly Gab: Lower league sides to watch in the FA Cup. [39], The club's chairman, Stafford Heginbotham, said: "It was to be our day". Felix Winspear Greenwood (13) [12] The work was expected to cost 400,000 (1.3million today). When Bradford City played Lincoln City at Valley Parade on May 11th, 1985, what should have been an afternoon of celebration quickly turned into one of the worst disasters ever seen at a British football ground. Police officers also assisted in the rescue attempts. 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. Gregg Ormondroyd, 31, grew closer to his wife Donna's carer, Anne Robinson Donna collapsed and stopped breathing two years ago and was put in a coma She was brought out of the coma later but has. Ian Ormondroyd, Bradford City Community Foundation manager and former Bantams striker, echoed the call for residents to come forward and contribute to the project. [1] When the association football club was formed, the ground was changed very little and had no covered accommodation. View Death Notice. They were immediately promoted back to the Football League in 1988, and survived for 23 years before being relegated again in 2011. Jack Leo Coxon (76) 18+. Many of the residents, who were mostly Bangladeshi, took people into their homes, brought out blankets and drinks and let them use their home telephones. Edith Hindle (79) Obviously helps cigarettes banned from football grounds now as IIRC a discarded butt caused the Bradford fire. Of the 56people who died in the fire,[2] 54 were Bradford supporters and two supported Lincoln. The fire was merciless and took victims as young as 11 and as old as 86. 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. There were a lot of wooden stands in those days, PNE Bury to name but two. These 3 users liked this post: Silkyskills1 tim_noone bobinho, I was closely connected to Bradford City and knew people who died in the fire. Bradford West Gwillimbury Fire Chief Jim Kay told reporters on Monday evening that 11 people in all were taken to hospital after flames broke out in a residential building at 114 Holland St. W . The stand had no perimeter fencing to keep fans from accessing the pitch, thus averting an instance of crush asphyxia as in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. Are you sure you want to delete this comment? Family Members . Learn more about merges. by Longside4evr Fri May 11, 2018 11:58 am, Post The stadium was known for its antiquated design and facilities, which included the wooden roof of the main stand. And so, too, is the black tragicomedy which can exist at the boundaries. A further 265 fans were injured in the blazes that day, and describe. "I think if we go out there and ask local people who've been in a house for 24 or 25 years, a lot of their memories will be about that. "[11] Police Superintendent Barry Osborne, divisional commander for the area, said many of his officers cried when they saw how badly people had been burned. As part of Bantamspast, Ian's actually hoping to dig a little deeper to find out just why some people choose to actively avoid Valley Parade completely on matchdays: "Perhaps we'll find out why they don't come. It's the Ormondroyd & Stockman names that get to me - both of them dad and two sons. And, before we knew it, the flames were racing down the whole stand. . However, the turnstiles were locked and none of the stadium staff were present to unlock them, leaving no escape through the normal entrances and exits. by tim_noone Fri May 11, 2018 9:25 am, Post ClaretMoffitt Posts: 3889 Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 7:19 pm . But they had done their job. RM 2F7YJ1C - Eccles, UK. Then, in the space of 120-odd seconds, it really kicked in. I walked past a public telephone outside the ground and there were queues of people waiting to ring home. "We were concerned there might be, because of the rapidity of the fire, a mechanism unknown to us." The other, situated by the main entrance, was donated by the club after its 7.5million (13million today) rebuilding of the original main stand in 2002. Bradford City initially prospered in the Second Division only missing out on promotion to the First Division in 1988 after failing to beat Ipswich Town at home on the final day of their first full season back at Valley Parade. [11], The disaster also had a long-lasting effect on the fans. Editors' Code of Practice. He established that there had been eight other fires at businesses owned by or associated with the entrepreneur, who > died in 1995, aged 61. It provides football coaching and education to young people, works with youngsters aged between 16 and 18 on the National Citizen Service and has done several projects in the local community. It's right to know why it happened." Previous warnings had also been given about a major build-up of litter in the cavity below the seats in the stand. www.fansbet.com is operated by Rush Gaming Limited (a company registered in Malta) and is regulated by the Malta Gaming Authority, Licence Number MGA/B2C/701/2019 issued on 30th March 2020. Bradford Fire. The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265. This Forum is the main messageboard to discuss all things Claret and Blue and beyond . Since then, it has been further re-developed and, today, Valley Parade is a modern 25,136 all-seater stadium, which is virtually unrecognisable from how it was at the time of the disaster, save for the original clubhouse that still stands beside the main stand, and the flank support wall that runs down the Hollywell Ash Lane at the "Bradford End". In terms of property types, flats in Ormondroyd Avenue sold for an average of 43,868 and terraced houses for 78,013. Peachs Picks: Five managers under pressure, Wigan Athletic: Tour needs our full support!, The Weekly Gab: Championship relegation picks, Kenny Dalglish: I couldnt have picked two better sides to play for, Sir Kenny Dalglish, MBE, Joins FansBet as Giving Back Ambassador, Getcha Gooner! . Bradford City Community Foundation is the community charity of Bradford City Football Club. You must log in or register to reply here. Some repair work was carried out, but in July 1984 the club was warned again, this time by a county council engineer, because of the club's plans to claim for ground improvements from the Football Trust. May 11, 2019 #12 Erebus Full Member. Herbert Bamford (72) Never seen the death roll that's horrendous the Ormondroyd family looks like Father and . He was actually one of the detectives involved in one of the gravest miscarriages of justices in the country, the murder of Carol Wilkinson in Bradford, where someone was locked up for 20 years for a murder he didn't commit."[60]. Irene Mcpherson (28) The disaster led to rigid new safety standards in UK stadiums, including the banning of new wooden grandstands. Something caught my eye, he later explained. The book also raises concerns about the speed of the inquiry and the fact that it commenced a few weeks after the fire and lasted for only a few days, whereas other inquiries into similar incidents, pre and post the Bradford fire, have taken years to come to fruition and months to be heard. Fletcher's dogged attempts to demonstrate whether that was just urban rumour included poring over 20 years of local newspaper reports and the business history of Heginbotham. This is according to the current Zoopla estimates. "Yes you've already told us you were concerned," the inquiry's QC effectively says, before he moves the conversation along. RIP. Bradford City players, staff and fans gathered today to remember the victims of the Valley Parade fire, which took place exactly 31 years ago. He agreed that the inquiry into Bradford, led by the judge Oliver Popplewell, was inadequate and that there are many unanswered questions. Another player went into the office space to ensure there was nobody there. Picture date: Thursday August 25, 2022. On the pitch, referee Norman Glover had no option but to stop the game as the horror unfolded in front of both sets of players who could feel the heat from the flames even from the other side of the ground. A truly horrific day which should never be forgotten. Thoughts and prayers to the 56 who lost their lives in this truly awful and harrowing tragedy. contact the editor here. But the scene became progressively horrendous, grotesque, and I was having to describe things you couldnt possibly imagine.. Head Physiotherapist: Dayle Avison. It occurred during a league match, on Saturday, 11 May 1985, killing 56 and injuring at least 265. As part of Bantamspast, Ian's actually hoping to dig a little deeper to find out just why some people choose to actively avoid Valley Parade completely on matchdays: "Perhaps we'll find out why they don't come. Fletcher's appearance on BBC regional news programme Look North looked like an inquisition, with playback in his headphones as he spoke from a London studio contributing to the difficulty. 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. Applying this 18.457% change to the original purchase price of 48,000 results in an estimated price of approximately 56,859. While Valley Parade was re-developed, Bradford City played games at various neighbouring grounds: Elland Road, Leeds; Leeds Road, Huddersfield; and Odsal Stadium, Bradford. We will remember them. The extraordinary part of all this is that this testimony has barely been heard. Some of those back in Bradford have not welcomed his turning over of the stones. 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. Ian Ormondroyd (born 22 September 1964) is an English former professional footballer who made more than 350 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. John Hughes (64) Performance Analyst: Scott Dyer. Some laughs puncture the rapt silence of the 75 minutes at Bradford's Alhambra theatre studio. So many youngsters died..very very sad. We talk in the anonymous surroundings of his publisher's, in Bloomsbury's Bedford Square. The fire brigade arrived at the ground four minutes after they were initially alerted. Never to be forgotten ACKROYD, John Douglas 32 Baildon ANDERTON, Edmund 68 Bingley BAINES, Alexander Shaw 70 Bradford BAMFORD, Herbert 72 Bradford Part of the service was also held in Urdu and Punjabi as a sign of appreciation to the local ethnically Asian Subcontinental community in Manningham, Bradford and around Valley Parade who had opened their homes to Bradford City supporters to provide assistance in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Harry Crabtree (76) Lincoln City suffered two successive relegations, first to the Fourth Division in 1986, and again in 1987, becoming the first team to be automatically relegated from the Football League itself. Bradford Council has tweeted: "@WYFRS are dealing with a fire within one of the buildings at a school on Thornton View Road BD14. Valley Parade during the early 1990s, after it had been redeveloped following the fire. The Popplewell Inquiry found that the club had been warned about the fire risk that the rubbish accumulating under the stand had posed. Steel was to be installed in the roof,[8] and the wooden terracing was to be replaced with concrete. A total of 56 people - 54 Bradford fans and two. Following the hearing in 1986, a test case was brought against the club by David Britton, a police sergeant serving on the day, and by Susan Fletcher, who lost her husband John, 11-year-old son Andrew, John's brother Peter and his father Edmond in the fire. One man clambered over burning seats to help a fan,[18] as did player John Hawley,[15] and one officer led fans to an exit, only to find it shut and had to turn around. RIP. It's hard to avoid the sense that Fletcher might have done, had it not been for that fateful May afternoon, which took away so many of the buttresses of his life. No follow up question. It was 30 years ago. [2] By 1911, his work was completed. Middlesbrough, Cleveland, TS7. A charred copy of the local paper from Monday, 4 November 1968, was among the litter. The residents also helped take victims to hospital. Ormondroyd praises 'phenomenal' Bradford Video Unavailable Technical details : A problem was encountered - please try again later Former Bradford and Aston Villa striker Ian Ormondroyd is. Whenever I read the roll call of the dead of this tragedy, and its inherent tales of familial loss, it truly brings a lump to my throat. I got pushed down to the front and I remember looking around and suddenly this smouldering, small fire had taken over virtually half a block and was starting to hit the roof. "Take care if you are in the area and allow space for the crews . "But I'd never heard of the Bradford disaster until I auditioned for this," she says. When Bradford City played Lincoln City at Valley Parade on May 11th, 1985, what should have been an afternoon of celebration quickly turned into one of the worst disasters ever seen at a British football ground. The children were still nestled under the warden's thick overcoat when they discovered them. "So yes, it's right that these old questions be asked now. There were 49 of us who travelled to Bradford on that day and just 47 came home. The players were told to go to the pub at the top of the road, John Hendrie would later reveal. Christopher Hammond, who was 12 on the day, said on the 20th anniversary of the fire: "As a 12-year-old, it was easy to move on I didn't realise how serious it was until I looked at the press coverage over the next few days. The stand had already been condemned, and the demolition teams were due to start work two days later. ", Ian Ormondroyd is searching for Valley Parade memories, A Bradford landmark - and a focus for many memories. The father whose attempts to make him a Bradford City fan he mischievously tried to resist, especially after the family's relocation to the detached surrounds of East Bridgford in Nottinghamshire turned the boy into a Nottingham Forest fan. We had not been told anything. His father Tony went back the following day and said: "I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel guilty that I had got out when so many hadn't." [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. To take part in the project, email paula.helliwell@gmail.com by December 16. This website and associated newspapers adhere to the Independent Press Standards Organisation's Comments have been closed on this article. "Sometimes, it's more of a social thing than a football thing. Peter Anthony Halliday (34) Jane Ashley Stockman (16) A police officer shouted to a colleague for an extinguisher, but his call was misheard and instead the fire brigade were radioed. BBC West Yorkshire: Sport. The fundraising events included a reunion of the 1966 World Cup Final Starting XI that began with the original starting teams of both England and West Germany, and was held at Leeds United's stadium, Elland Road, in July 1985 to raise funds for the Appeal fund. I asked the director to get the camera to go a little closer. It was Fletcher's mother, Susan, who had always said that she did not believe the fire was an accident and who talked of the other blazes at businesses owned or linked to Stafford Heginbotham, the Bradford City chairman of the day. Within a few hours of the blaze starting, it was established that 56 people had been killed, many as a result of smoke inhalation, although some of them had survived until reaching hospital.[11]. 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. We didnt know at this point if anyone had been killed. Criticising Bradford City during the case, Mr. Michael Ogden QC, highlighted that the Club 'gave no or very little thought to fire precautions', despite repeated warnings. When this house was purchased in December 2020 the House Price Index for WEST YORKSHIRE was 129.5. In the panic that ensued, fleeing crowds escaped on to the pitch but others at the back of the stand tried to break down locked exit doors to escape. [15], At 3:44pm, five minutes before half-time, the first sign of a firea glowing lightwas noticed three rows from the back of block G,[10][16] as reported by television commentator John Helm. "Official Featherstone Rovers RLFC Web Site First Team Squad", "Ormondroyd junior the 'big daddy' of the family at 17 stone", "Much-changed Featherstone ready for Bradford Bulls test", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ian_Ormondroyd&oldid=1015639568, *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10:00, 22 November 2007 (UTC), This page was last edited on 2 April 2021, at 16:48. "I became an adult overnight at 12 and I'm still there," Fletcher says, and you wonder what's next, now that the book which has become his life's work is published. And there are also repeated references to the smell of burning plastic. For the book, we are looking to hear from people who were there but were children at the time, but could tell us their story.. "The rumours of the fire came slowly and took hold slowly but when things became clear, I threw down my bags and ran. A discarded cigarette and a dilapidated wooden stand, which had survived because the club did not have the money to replace it, and accumulated paper litter, were considered to have conspired to cause the worst disaster in the history of the Football League. Fletcher said that "The club at the time took no actual responsibility for its actions and nobody has ever really been held accountable for the level of negligence which took place. The names of the 56 victims of the Valley Parade Fire Disaster - 11 May 1985 . The footage never gets any less shocking. Popplewell's report was nowhere close to the quality of Lord Justice Taylor's report after Hillsborough, and since reading it as an adult I have always been very disappointed in it and considered it a poor piece of work. He was helped out of the stand by other fans and spent a period of time in hospital. 26 years ago today. Supporters searched for fire extinguishers while the Police began to evacuate the stand withflames soon spreading to the roof and across the wooden steps as timber and other materials began to fall onto the crowd. Regional Scout (Midlands): Stan Martin. Nellie Forster (64) Today we remember the 56 fans who tragically lost their lives in the Bradford fire disaster 31 years ago. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. I do not include the people currently running the club, who have always displayed a great, sensitive duty to the memory of those who died. [51] Another book; 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (2015) was written by Martin Fletcher to discuss how the disaster was caused, and follows his loss of his father, brother, uncle and grandfather. 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