1850
| Architecture | 13 Piece Hall Yard [c 1840-50] Peel Park purchased as public park Drake Street (Exchange) Station (9/5) - see 1867 Fleece Inn, Eldwick (Dick Hudson landlord until 1890) |
Wyke Station - 1st (7/8) {1896} Fields Printers New Workhouse foundation stone (13/8) |
| Events | Bradford Improvement Act Bradford Temperance Society founded Second directory issued |
Mayor - William Rand Train service from Bradford to Halifax Bradford Sunday School Union formed (21/2) |
| National | Public Library Act Lord Tennyson poet laureate Robert Louis Stevenson born (13/11) |
Sir Robert Peel died (2/7) William Wordsworth died (23/4) Re-establishment of the Roman Catholic hierarchy |
| International | USA - Millard Fillmore | Madame Tussaud died (16/4) |
| Firsts | Meteorological Office Bunsen burner - Robert Wilhelm Von Bunsen |
Synthetic oil - James "Paraffin" Young |
| Arts/Media | David Copperfield - Charles Dickens | |
| Products/Words | Aircraft, Communist |
1851
| Architecture | Queensgate St Georges Hall foundation stone (22/9) Rose Mount, Manningham - for John Douglas Zetland Mills, Canal Road |
Peel Square, Lumb Lane Thornton Chapel rebuilt Primitive Methodist Chapel, Harecroft |
| Events | Population 103,778 153 mills(firms) in Bradford Bingley Building Society formed Bradford Building Society formed Bradford Chamber of Commerce founded |
Mayor - Samuel Smith Wilsden population 3,454 Great Wilsden flood Undercliffe cemetery purchased Woods Music store founded |
| National | Great Exhibition, Hyde Park, London Mary Shelley died (1/2) |
Marble Arch re-erected Hyde Park |
| International | Gold discovered in Australia | |
| Firsts | Telegraph cable laid across the English Channel Sewing machine - Isaac Singer |
Envelope making machine - De la Rue Telescope patented - Alvan Clark |
| Arts/Media | New York Times - newspaper (18/9) Moby Dick - Herman Melville |
Reuters news agency |
| Products |
1852
| Architecture | Workhouse Infirmary (St Lukes Hospital) Buttershaw Mill, Halifax Road Sion Baptist Chapel, Leeds Road Peel Park Hotel, Otley Road (Google street view) |
Greenfield Chapel, Lumb Lane St Patrick's Church, Westgate Hallfield Road |
| Events | Alpaca manufactured by Titus Salt Bradford Cemetery Company founded |
Mayor - Samuel Smith |
| National | PM - Earl of Derby - Tory {1852} PM - Earl of Aberdeen - Peelite {1855} |
Duke of Wellington died (14/9) Last duel fought in England |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Public flushing toilet - London Victoria and Albert Museum, London Kings Cross Station, London Screw top bottles |
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London Elevator/Lift - Elisha Otis Patent Office, London |
| Arts/Media | Uncle Toms Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe | Roget's Thesaurus - Peter Roget |
| Products |
1853
| Architecture | St George's Hall (31/8) Milligan & Forbes Warehouse (Telegraph & Argus), Hall Ings Salts Mill , Saltaire (26/9) St Patrick's Catholic Church opened (13/7) |
Richmond Terrace St Andrew's Church, Listerhills 356 Kensington Street [JW=Jonathan Wright] |
| Events | Bolton Woods Quarry - J&T Dawson Building byelaws Work commenced on Saltaire village Shipley Local Board elected (31/3) |
Mayor - Samuel Smith Last market held in Old Piece Hall (28/7) Halifax Building Society formed |
| National | Compulsory Vaccination Act Abolition of Soap Tax |
Troy Ounce measure legalised |
| International | USA - Franklin Pierce | Victoria Falls discovered by David Livingstone |
| Firsts | Aquascutum Potato Crisps |
Aspirin (CF Gerhardt) Elizabeth Bloomer wore trousers |
| Arts/Media | Bleak House - Charles Dickens La Traviata - G Verdi |
Craven Herald - Skipton |
| Products |
1854
| Architecture | Bradford Library, Darley Street Undercliffe Cemetery (25/8) Eccleshill Wesleyan Methodist Chapel Saltaire Village - first phase of building completed "Ragged School", Cropper Lane (24/3) |
Adolphous Street Station (1/8) {1867} Bowling Station (1/8) {{1895} Laisterdyke Station (1/8) {1966} Works Dining Room, Victoria Road, Saltaire 203 Westgate |
| Events | Mayoral Chain presented Corporation Waterworks Act Charles Dickens at St George's Hall (28/12) Bradford Moor golf course damaged by suffragettes Map of Bradford Fatal railway accident at Keighley (19/10) |
Mayor - William Murgatroyd Bradford Times (18/2) Bradford Chronicle (1/7) Rev Jonathan Glyde died (9/12) Leeds - Bradford (Adolphous St) railway |
| National | Abolition of soap tax | Napoleon III visited Windsor (17/4) |
| International |
Crimean War started
{1856} Siege of Sebastopol |
Charge of the Light Brigade
(25/10) Republican party (USA) founded |
| Firsts | Cigarettes introduced into Britain Elevator installed - Elisha Otis |
Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Railway timetable produced in Manchester (25/10) |
| Arts/Media | Hard Times - Charles Dickens | Le Figaro - newspaper |
| Products |
1855
| Architecture | 47 Well Street [LG] Sir Robert Peel statue (6/11) |
Beckett's Bank, Cheapside |
| Events | Waterworks purchased by Council (1/10) Charlotte Bronte died (31/3) Matthew Hughes awarded the Victoria Cross |
Mayor - Henry Brown Bradford Advertiser {1890} |
| National | PM - Viscount Palmerstone - Lib {1858} Banks Act |
Lord Raglan killed (28/6) Daily Telegraph (29/6) |
| International | Siege of Sebastopol ends (9/9) Victoria Falls discovered - Dr Livingstone |
Alexandra II - Tsar of Russia Charlotte Bronte died (31/3) |
| Firsts | Mansfield Brewery Balmoral Castle |
Trade Mark - Bass Pale Ale Celluloid patented - Alexander Parkes |
| Arts/Media | Daily Telegraph (29/6) |
Song of Hiawatha - HW Longfellow Westward Ho! - Charles Kingsley |
| Products | Miller beer, Milwaukee, USA |
1856
| Architecture | Pickwick House, 17 Peckover Street [LG] Saltaire station (?/5) {1965} Thackley Chapel |
Dudley Hill station (20/8) {1875} Birkenshaw station (20/8) {1953} Drighlington station (2/8) {1962} |
| Events | Bradford Festival Choral Society formed Bradford High School |
Mayor - Henry Brown |
| National |
Victoria Cross introduced |
Anglo - Chinese War {1858} Crimean War ended (30/3) |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Turkish Baths in UK - Manchester |
Thomas Cook leads travel tour to Europe |
| Arts/Media | Tom Brown's Schooldays - Thomas Hughes | |
| Products |
1857
| Architecture | 6 Currer Street [LG] Saltaire - second phase of building completed Bradford Female Educational Institute (16/11) |
St Paul's Church {cinema 1911} St Mark's Church, Low Moor (11/3) |
| Events | Tradesmen's Benevolent Society established Burial Board appointed Bradford/Wakefield/Leeds railway (3/10) Two Russian guns presented to Peel Park (16/6) |
Mayor - Henry Brown Eye & Ear Institution, Brunswick Place cv 1865 Dr Livingstone at St George's Hall (24/11) 48 collieries in Bradford area - 976,000 tons |
| National | Prince Albert became Prince Consort | |
| International | USA - James Buchanan | Indian Mutiny started |
| Firsts | Great Eastern (Brunel) launched Victoria Cross awarded (26/6) |
Transatlantic telegraph cable Toilet paper (Joseph Cayetty) |
| Arts/Media | Little Dorritt - Charles Dickens | Barchester Towers - Anthony Trollope |
| Products |
1858
| Architecture | Bradford Banking Company (BBBS),
Kirkgate St Judes Street, Lumb Lane Leeds Road Public Baths incl Turkish |
19 Peckover Street [LG] {1979} Bolton Hotel, Bolton Road |
| Events | Bradford Review (16/1) "Lozenge Poisoning" Public analyst appointed [Rimmington] Tomothy Taylor brewery, Keighley |
Mayor - Henry Brown Leeds - Town Hall William Napier awarded the Victoria Cross Broomfields "Ragged" school opened (9/8) |
| National | PM - Earl of Derby - Con {1858} PM - Viscount Palmerstone - Lib {1865} |
Local Government Act Covent Garden Opera House |
| International | Lord Canning 1st Viceroy of India East India Company dissolved Minnesota becomes US state |
Lake Victoria discovered Lake Tanganyika discovered |
| Firsts | Covent Garden opera house Hall Orchestra (30/1) Pencil with eraser on end patented - Hyman Lipman Fingerprints used for identification - William Herschel (28/7) |
Great Eastern (Brunel) launched (31/1) Alhambra Theatre, Leicester Square {?} Electric burglar alarm, Boston |
| Arts/Media | ||
| Products |
1859
| Architecture | 53/55 Leeds Road [LG] 4 Currer Street [LG] {1990} |
Atomik House, 4 Burnett Street [LG] Carlisle Road Chapel Saltaire Congregational Church (15/4) |
| Events | Sir Titus Salt - MP (to 1861) Yorkshire Penny Bank founded Storm and flooding (6/6) W&J Whitehead, Laisterdyke founded Fire at Bowling Dye Works (20/10) Mortality statistics (25/10) |
Mayor - Isaac Wright School of Design opened - John Ruskin (1/3) Building byelaws revised John Bright expounded his Reform Bill at St Georges Hall (12/1) Charles Dickens at St. Georges Hall (20/10) |
| National | Isambard Kingdom Brunel died (15/9) Royal Albert Bridge, Plymouth (2/5) |
Robert Stephenson died
(12/10) |
| International | Billy the Kid born Oregon becomes US state Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope (30/6) |
John Brown - raid on Harpers Ferry (16/10) John Brown hanged (2/12) |
| Firsts | Big Ben into service - Houses of Parliament (31/5) | Cruft's Dog Show - held in Newcastle |
| Arts/Media |
On the Origin of Species - Charles Darwin
(24/11) Adam Bede - George Eliot |
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens Faust - CF Gounod |
| Products/Words | Acid rain |
1860
| Architecture | 72 Vicar Lane [LG] 5 Burnett Street [LG] 40 Chapel Street [LG] Grove House, Bolton - for Atkinson Jowett |
Scholemoor Cemetery St Philip's Church, Girlington (14/2) St Stephen's Church, Bowling West End Farmhouse, Allerton Lane [c] Allerton Warehouse, Allerton Road (262-264) |
| Events | Greenwoods men's shop Bradford Industrial Co-op Society Severe storm - widespread damage (21/1) Judy Barrett died (19/3) |
Mayor - Isaac Wright Halifax - Town Hall Bradford Political Union inaugurated (6/5) |
| National | Nurses Training
School - Florence
Nightingale Professional Nursing Career Training begins at St Thomas' Hospital, London |
|
| International | Pony Express founded (3/4) | |
| Firsts | Electric lamp (Swan) Martini Cocktail (Martini a New York barman) British Open Golf championship (17/10) |
Petroleum from USA to London HMS Warrior - ironclad warship Petroleum from USA to London |
| Arts/Media | The Mill on the Floss - George Eliot | |
| Products |
1861
| Architecture | 8 Currer Street [LG] Drummonds, Lumb Lane Mills Oakroyd Dyeworks, City Road |
Constance & Shirley Streets, Saltaire St Thomas's Church, Wigan Street St Mary's Church, Laisterdyke (13/3) |
| Events | Population 106,218 WE Forster MP (to 1886) Richard Oastler : 1789-1861 (22/8) Bradford Post Office savings bank opened (9/12) |
Mayor - Isaac Wright Wilsden population 2,888 Sir Titus Salt retired Map of Bradford |
| National | Post Office Savings Bank Paper Duties repealed |
Prince Albert
: 1819-1861 (14/12) |
| International | USA - Abraham Lincoln Kansa becomes US state |
American Civil War
(12/4) {1865} |
| Firsts | Christmas Crackers Paris Opera House |
"Package holiday" to Paris - Thomas Cook "Bone shaker" bicycle - Pierre & Ernst Michaux |
| Arts/Media | Great Expectations - Charles Dickens | Silas Marner - George Eliot |
| Products |
1862
| Architecture
|
County Court, 27 Manor Row (3/1) Victor House, 10 Currer Street [LG] 53/55 Leeds Road [LG] Wacorn House, 8 Burnett Street [LG] 13 Currer Street [LG] Horton Lane Congregational Church Hallfield Chapel foundation stone (26/6) |
Glyde House (as a school) St Luke's Church, Broomfield (27/6) RAOB Club, Lumb Lane High School, Hallfield Road Cater Buildings, Cater Street [LG] |
| Events | Frederick Delius born (29/1) County Court House opened (2/1) Keighley News |
Mayor - Mathew Thompson Bradford District Banking Company founded (6/11) |
| National | Cotton famine in Lancashire | Notts County FC formed - oldest in the league |
| International | Source of the Nile discovered | Samuel Colt [gunsmith] died (10/1) |
| Firsts | Land Registry Traffic Island (Liverpool) Westminster Bridge, London (24/5) |
Machine gun patented Lambeth Bridge, London |
| Arts/Media | Les Miserables - Victor Hugo | |
| Products | Bacardi Rum, Cuba |
1863
| Architecture | Peel Park (7/11) 30 Well Street [LG] {19??} Wash & Bath House, Saltaire {1894} Peel Park Drinking Fountain 3 Eldon Terrace - to be sold by auction |
St Michael's Church, Windhill Street Hallfield Baptist Chapel, Darfield Street {?} St Walburga's Church, Shipley Horton Lane Congregational Church, Little Horton Lane {1956} |
| Events | Jones's Mercantile Directory -
introduction Leeds - Corn Exchange Bradford Rugby Club |
Mayor - Joseph Farrar Bew ward presented to BRI by Dr Godwin |
| National | Fenian Society founded in Ireland William Makepeace Thackeray died (24/12) |
Stoke City FC formed London Underground - Metropolitan Railway |
| International | West Virginia becomes US state Kit Carson (American frontiersman) died (23/5) |
Gettysburg Address - Abraham Lincoln (19/11) |
| Firsts | Linoleum patented (F Walton) Broadmoor Prison (27/5) London Underground - Metropolita (10/1) |
English Football Association founded Vacant/Engaged sign for toilet door patented (17/2) |
| Arts/Media | The Water Babies - Charles Kingsley | |
| Products |
1864
| Architecture | Alexandra Theater/Theatre Royal (26/12) {1974} 45 Well Street [LG] Wool Exchange foundation stone (9/8) Mechanics Institute/Library, Bingley (14/11) Oakwood, Bingley - for Thomas Garnett Bradford Infirmary, Westgate extended |
All Saints Church, Little Horton St Barnabas Church, Heaton Windhill Chapel Heaton Mount, Frizinghall Holy Trinity Church, Leeds Road |
| Events | Population 118,098 Armley Prison - First execution (10/9) Huddersfield Equitable Building Society formed Leeds granted Assizes - travelling High Court (24/1) |
Mayor - Charles Semon Horsedrawn bus service (22/12) Bradford Philosophical Society established (23/12) Pullan's Music Hall, Westgate (24/12) qv 1869 |
| National | Dam in Sheffield bursts (11/3) | |
| International | Ionian Islands (Corfu) became part of Greece Nevada becomes US state |
Geneva Convention |
| Firsts | Clifton Suspension Bridge, Bristol (8/12) Torpedo - Robert Whitehead |
International Red Cross Pasteurisation (wine) - Louis Pasteur |
| Arts/Media | Journey to the Centre of the Earth- Jules Verne John Wisden's Cricketers Almanack (8/2) |
War and Peace - Tolstoy |
| Products |
1865
| Architecture | Whetley Mills, Thornton Road Eye & Ear Hospital, Hallfield Road cv 1857 {1948} Thornton Road baths (22/7) Shipley Baptist Church Cottingley Town Hall |
Burley-in-Wharfedale station (1/8) Ilkley Station (1/8) Greenhill Chapel rebuilt Cragg Royd, Apperley Bridge - for Nathaniel Briggs Blenheim Terrace, Manningham |
| Events | Otley & Ilkley Railway Richard Cobden died Bradford Times {1883} |
Mayor - John Godwin Leeds - City Varieties "Back to Back" housing banned (reversed in 1870) |
| National | PM - Earl Russell - Lib {1866} Red Flag Act - imposed speed limit for cars Rudyard Kipling born (30/12) |
Viscount Palmerstone died (18/10) Nottingham Forest FC formed Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell died (12/11) |
| International | USA - Abraham Lincoln (died in office) USA - Andrew Johnson Abraham Lincoln assassinated (15/4) Sibelius born (8/12) |
American Civil War ended
(9/4) (26/5) Slavery abolished in USA Matterhorn climbed |
| Firsts | Salvation Army -William Booth MIT (USA) Dishwasher International Morse Code standardised - qv 1848 (Wikipedia) |
Stanley Gibbons monthly price list Carpet sweeper Capitol Building, Washington DC |
| Arts/Media | Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll From the Earth to the Moon- Jules Verne |
Our Mutual Friend - Charles Dickens |
| Products/Words | Commuter |
1866
| Architecture | York House, Manor Row (Bradford Club)
[c] Alston Works, Thornton Road - Isaac Holden Bank Top Mills, Beacon Road |
Albion Mill, Wilsden rebuilt Ben Rhydding Station (1/7) Allerton Chapel rebuilt |
| Events | Bradford Corporation Act Market rights acquired from Rawson's (lord of the Manor) Flood (16/11) 46 collieries in area - 1.9 million tons Shearbridge Mills damaged by fire (10/7) |
Mayor - William Broyshaw Uriah Woodhead, Canal Road West Yorks Building Society (Dewsbury) formed |
| National | PM - Earl of Derby - Con {1868} Isle of Man gains home rule Last cholera epidemic "Black Friday" - financial crisis |
Beatrix Potter born (28/7) HG Wells born (21/9) Ramsay MacDonald born (26/10) Crystal Palace, London fire (30/12) |
| International | Jamaica becomes British colony | |
| Firsts |
Royal Aeronautical Society
of Great Britain (12/1) Plastic Dr Barnardo's Home - Stepney [or 1867] |
Dynamite - Alfred Nobel Brighton Pier {closed 1975} Transatlantic Telephone Cable (27/7) |
| Arts/Media | Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Bartered Bride - Friedrich Smetana |
| Products | Cadbury's Cocoa Essence |
1867
| Architecture | Victoria Hotel, Bridge
Street (1/10) qv 1892 Wool Exchange (13/3) BDA/Pennine House, 39 Well Street [LG] Priestley's Warehouse, 66 Vicar Lane [LG] Components House, 1 Burnett Street [LG] Clarendon Academy, Bowland Street Longwood, Bingley - for W M Selwyn |
Godwin Street developed Haworth station (13/4) {1962} Oakworth station (13/4) {1962} Oxenhope station (13/4) {1962} St Michaels & All Angels Church, City Road Greengates Chapel |
| Events | Bradford Canal closed (temporary) Steam powered fire engine Exchange building became Post Office Thomas Obank & Sons, Thackley founded Drake Street station renamed Exchange (7/1) Leeds - Bradford railway terminated at Exchange Station (1/7) |
Mayor - James Law Decision taken to build a Town Hall (2/1) Bingley Agricultural Show (28/8) "Wrose Elm" planted {2000} Adolphus Street station closed to passenger traffic(6/1) |
| National | Second Reform Act Electorate doubled to over two million Royal Albert Hall foundation stone (20/5) |
Fenian attacks in London Sheffield Wednesday FC formed Chesterfield FC formed |
| International | Dominion of Canada created (1/7) Russia sells Alaska to USA |
Paris Exhibition Nebraska becomes US state |
| Firsts | Queensbury Rules - boxing Dr Barnardo's Homes - Stepney [or 1866] Carbolic used - Joseph Lister |
Dynamite patented - Alfred Nobel Air brake for railways - George Westinghouse |
| Arts/Media | Das Kapital - Karl Marx Blue Danube Waltz - Johann Strauss Peer Gynt - H Ibsen |
Little Women - Louisa May Alcott Don Carlos - Verdi |
1868
| Architecture | Bradford Commercial Bank (Nat West), Hustlergate Blind Institute, North Parade Albion House, 64 Vicar Lane [LG] Mechanics Institute, Eccleshill (cinema 1911) Manningham station (17/2) {1965} Richard Oastler statue (15/5) Chapel Lane Unitarian Chapel {197?} Ilkley College St Joseph's School Chapel Congregational School - 586a Great Horton Road |
Almshouses, Victoria Road, Saltaire (23/9) Salts Hospital, Saltaire {closed 1979} Saltaire Methodist Church {1970} New Mill, Saltaire Gordon Terrace, Saltaire [part] Saltaire Elementary school [Shipley College annexe] St Joseph's Church, Grafton Street Oakwell, Manningham - for ? Moravian Church, Baildon Tradesmen's Homes, Heaton Road |
| Events | Decision made to provide public parks Bradford Observer becomes a daily newspaper (5/10) |
Mayor - Edward West Bradford Daily Telegraph (16/7) |
| National | PM - Benjamin Disraeli - Con {1868} PM - WE Gladstone - Lib {1874} Trades Union Council founded |
Last public execution Last convicts to Australia London Underground - Metropolitan Line extended to Westminster |
| International | ||
| Firsts | Press Association Tape measure patented - Alvin J Fellows (14/7) |
Traffic lights - London |
| Arts/Media | Whitakers Almanac A German Requiem - J Brahms The Idiot - Fiodor Dostoevsky |
The Moonstone - W Collins Piano Concerto in A Minor - Edward Grieg Exchange & Mart (13/5) |
| Products |
1869
| Architecture | 62 Leeds Road [LG] Gordon Terrace, Saltaire [part] |
Unitarian Chapel {1969} Ling Bob Mills, Wilsden |
| Events | Building Trades Technical School, Godwin Street Election riots Pullan's Music Hall, Brunswick Place opened (25/10) qv 1864 Green Cliff Stone Quarry opened |
Mayor - Mark Dawson Town Hall design agreed (6/10) Bradford Weekly Telegraph (31/7) |
| National | Disestablishment Act (Irish Church) | Post Office given telegraph monopoly |
| International | USA - Ulysses S Grant | Union Pacific railway (USA) opened |
| Architecture & Firsts |
Strangeways
Prison, Manchester (Wikipedia) Blackfriars Bridge, London (Wikipedia) Booths Theatre, New York (Wikipedia) Suez Canal (17/11) (Wikipedia) Cutty Sark launched (22/11) (Wikipedia) |
Celluloid (first plastic) - John Wesley Hyatt Chewing gum patented DNA discovered - Johann Frederick Miescher Margarine - H Mege-Mouries |
| Arts/Media | The Rhinegold - Richard Wagner (Opera) The Little Brown Jug - Eastborn Winner (Song) |
Lorna Doone - R.D. Blackmore (Book) War & Peace - Leo Tolstoy (Book) |
| Products |
1870
| Architecture | Lister Park purchased by Corporation
(27/10) Town Hall foundation stone (10/8) Mechanics Institute foundation stone (10/8) Brown, Muff & Co Ltd, Market Street Manor Hall demolished |
St Barnabas School Girlington Chapel St James Church, Thornton Bowling Church School |
| Events | SC Lister sold Manningham Hall (27/10) Bradford School Board elected Rosse Hotel, Saltaire - granted a licence Dr Burnett - Vicar of Bradford died (8/3) Pantomime - Whittington & His Cat |
Mayor - Mark Dawson Typhoid scare Observer Budget (7/8) Photographing of prisoners became compulsory (3/11) |
| National | Education Act - primary education compulsory Bankruptcy Act - abolished imprisonment for debt Irish Land Act |
Postcard and 1/2d stamp (1/10) Charles Dickens died (9/6) Review of Old and New Testaments |
| International | French Revolution Alexander Dumas died (5/12) |
Franco Prussian War Vatican declares papal infallibility |
| Firsts | Red Cross Society Americas Cup - yacht race Stanley Gibbons stamp catalogue Instititute of Accountants founded "Tower Subway" - Tunnel under the Thames (2/8) |
Jelly Babies Blackfriars Bridge, London Stanley Gibbons stamp album Dynamo - Zenobe T Gramme |
| Arts/Media | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea- Jules Verne Coppelia - Clement Delibes Mystery of Edwin Drood - Charles Dickes |
The Mysterious Island- Jules Verne Die Walkure - Richard Wagner |
| Products | Amstel beer, Holland |
1871
| Architecture |
Mechanics Institute (2/10) {1973/4} Thorpe Buildings (TSB), Tyrell Street - see 1876 Bradford Fever Hospital, Leeds Road History & Scientific Institute, 8 Piccadilly De Vere House, 62 Vicar Lane [LG] 38 Chapel Street [LG] 46 Peckover Street [LG] St James Meat Market & Abattoir (1/1) Midland Mills, Valley Road Mechanics Institute, Thornton (cinema 1912) Lister Park opened (28/10) Corporation Abattoir, Leeds Road (6/1) |
St Thomas's School, Wigan Street Bowling Back Lane Board school Bradford Post Office Savings bank (9/12) 6 Ireland Bridge, Bingley Prospect, Bowling Chapel Wyke Chapel Idle Chapel rebuilt St Peter's Church, Laisterdyke Provincial Building Society, Market Street {196?} Saltaire Institute [Victoria Hall] (?/6) Free Libraries Act adopted (15/3) |
| Events | Population 147,101 Council purchased Gas Company (11/7) First Chief Librarian appointed - Mr Virgo (11/10) Manningham Mills destroyed by fire - two died (25/2) WN Sharpe Ltd formed Telegraph offices moved to Bridge Street/New Ivegate (31/7) Map of Bradford |
Mayor - Mathew Thompson Wilsden population 3,127 Bradford Orphan Girls' Home (13/4) Bradford Evening Mail (18/9) {1875} Second Canal Company formed Roberts Park, Saltaire opened (25/7) Map of Bradford city centre |
| National | Bank Holiday Act Reading FC formed |
Trade Unions legally recognised Royal Albert Hall (29/3) |
| International | Stanley met Livingstone at Ujiji (10/11) | British Colombia became part of Canada |
| Firsts | Rugby Football Union founded Cable car patented (17/1) |
Whit Monday - Bank Holiday (29/5) Jehovaha's Witnesses founded |
| Arts/Media | Encyclopaedia Britannica Aida - Verdi |
Descent of Man - Charles Darwin |
| Products | Bristol - cigarettes |
1872
| Architecture | Kirkgate Market (31/10) {1973}- see 1878 Frizinghall Chapel Midland Bank, Market Street |
St Bartholomew's Church, Bowling Bradford Grammar School, Manor Row {1987} |
| Events | Reference library opened in Tyrell Street "Browne" system devised by Charles Virgo Powers Bookstall Skipley, Idle and Eccleshill railway opened (8/3) |
Mayor - Mathew Thompson Bradford Canal re-opened Bradford Daily Chronicle (1/10) {1883} Mortality figures (21/3) |
| National | Ballot Act - secret ballot compulsory First election under Ballot Act (15/8) |
|
| International | Samuel Morse died | Mary Celeste found adrift in Atlantic (5/12) |
| Sport | FA Cup - Wanderers (Royal Engineers) - Kennington Oval (16/3) | |
| Firsts | Albert Memorial (1/7) "Browne" system for issuing library books |
Doughnut cutter patented - John Blondel (9/7) Dried milk patented (9/4) |
| Arts/Media | Alice Through the Looking Glass - Lewis Carroll Around the World in 80 Days - Jules Verne |
Miiddlemarch - George Eliot Boston Globe newspaper |
| Products |
1873
| Architecture | Town Hall (9/9) Manningham Mills - Samuel Lister Bradford District Bank (Nat West), Market St 26 East Parade [LG] Sion Baptist Chapel, Harris Street [LG] Caspian House, 61 East Parade [LG] Alhambra Theatre, Canal Road (16/9) {1875} 62 Leeds Road/George Street extension [LG] Legrams Mill - George Hodgson St Augustine's Wesleyan Chapel Lindum Terrace, Manningham Bonding warehouse, Midland Station (21/4) |
Dispensary added to Infirmary Feversham Street school New Road Side Chapel Otley Road Chapel Bolton Road Chapel Old Grammar School, Manor Row {?} Church House, North Parade Dudley Hill Board school Barkerend Board school Whetley Lane Board school Horton Bank Top Board school Feversham Street school |
| Events | Mayoral Mace presented Bradford Free Lending Library, Tyrell Street (17/2) Bradford Canal opened (15/4) Bolton Lane abattoir opened {1928/1938} St. George's Hall re-opened (29/8) |
Mayor - Manoah Rhodes Bolton becomes part of Bradford First Board schools - rented property Robert Bland Ltd (Jewellers & Clock Makers) Bradford Improvement Bill 1873 |
| National | Livingstone died (1/5) Wrexham FC formed - oldest in Wales |
Attendance at school made compulsory |
| International | USA - Ulysses S Grant | |
| Sport | FA - Wanderers (Oxford University) - Little Bridge | |
| Firsts | Scottish FA - founded Philo Remington produces a typewriter Celluloid registered as a trademark (14/1) Newspaper photograph - New York Daily Graphic (2/12) |
Badminton played in England (circa) Toilets on British trains - sleeping cars (2/4) Typewriter with QWERTY keyboard Albert Bridge, London opened (23/8) |
| Arts/Media | Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy | |
| Products/Words | Heineken beer, Holland | Aeroplane |
1874
| Architecture | Law Russell & Co, 63 Vicar Lane [LG] St James Wholesale Fruit & Veg Market (13/7) Bfd District Bank [Nat West], Market Street (18/5) Commercial Bank Buildings New Bank Street - building commenced Sir Titus Salt statue (1/8) St Paul's Terrace, Manningham First Pullman Train - Midland (Forster Square) Station (1/6) |
Manoah Rhodes Bowling Back Lane school Lilycroft Board school Whetley Lane Board School (15/6) St Mary's Roman Catholic Church St Marks, Manningham {1959} St Phillip's school, Girlington St John the Evangelist, Great Horton Road |
| Events | Evening classes started Purpose built schools Cycling Club founded - first in UK George Newby & Co, Tyrell Street {1974} Wombwell's Royal National Menagerie |
Mayor - Henry Mitchell Subscription library formed (27/10) Lower Barden reservoir Leeds University founded |
| National | PM - Benjamin Disraeli - Con {1880} Aston Villa FC formed Macclesfield FC formed |
Building Societies Act Bolton Wanderers FC formed |
| International | Gold Coast became a British colony | Fiji became a British Colony |
| Sport | FA - Oxford University (Royal Engineers) - Kennington Oval | |
| Firsts | Safety bicycle - HJ Lawson Pullman Train (see above) |
Solomon introduces pressure cooking for cans |
| Arts/Media | Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy The Mysterious Island - Jules Verne Die Fledermaus - J Strauss Requiem - G Verdi |
The Accountant magazine Pictures from an Exhibition - MP Moussorgsky My Fatherland - F Smetana |
| Products | Bovril - Johnston's Fluid Beef, Canada Passing Clouds - cigarettes |
Jelly Beans |
