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- Abattoir Company's premises purchased by Corporation
- Act for paving, lighting, watching, and improving the town of Bradford passed in 1803
- List of first Commissioners
- Act establishing the Court of Requests passed in 1793; its oppressive working and result
- Aldermen, list of
- Andrew, John, an early police officer of note
- Atkinson, Rev. W, " afternoon man" at the parish church for sixty two years
- Back to back Houses prohibited
- Supplementary Bye laws enacted
- Bakes, W, Inspector of Nuisances
- Ballot Act, first operation of in Bradford
- Bank Street Improvements on the site of Union Passage and the old Post Office; former residents in the locality
- Bartle's Corner
- Baths and Washhouses Act adopted in Bradford, and baths established
- Beaumont, T, surgeon, commissioner, alderman, and chairman of Sanitary Committee
- Billingsley, Edward, invention for consuming smoke.
- Binnie, Alexander R, appointed waterworks engineer
- Binns, Jim, a soft water dealer
- Bishop Blaize, grand celebration
- Blessard, J, stapler and oilman
- Block plan of Bradford in 1700
- Bower Family
- Bowling Park, opening of
- Bowling Cemetery, purchase of
- Board of Surveyors first elected by the vestry, March 24, 1843
- Board of Health formed
- Bolton township annexed to the borough.
- First election for councillors
- Added to N. Bierley Union
- Booth, John, clerk of the Commissioners thirty one years
- Borough of Bradford
- Rapid progress of in 1851 (2)
- Townships of.
- Townships incorporated
- Rateable value of.
- Population of
- Dwelling houses in
- Division into wards
- Representatives of
- Borrowing powers
- Rates
- Bradford Improvement Act, 1850 Draft of the Bill, fierce opposition, amicable arrangement suggested Health of Towns' Bill incorporated with slight exceptions; Bill received Royal assent, July 1850
- Bradford Corporatn. and Water wks Company's Bill of 1853
- Both rejected
- Promoters of Corporation scheme served with an injunction; renewed contest, truce, and final agreement; amount paid
- Supplementary Act obtained authorising Corporation to borrow money and levy a separate rate
- Bradford Waterw'ks. Extension Act 1858 - Details of works, &c
- Bradford Corporation Act of 1868, for increase of water supply, proposed Town Hall purchase of Bradford Moor for a recreation ground, and further street improvements application partly failed, but some important points gained on its renewal next year
- Bradford Improvement Act, 1873 Construction of additional Waterworks and extension of the Borough passed with some modifications
- Bradford Waterworks and Improvement Act, 1875 Water supply inadequate fresh borrowing powers sought for the construction of Upper Barden reservoirs, &c. ; also for new gasworks, and the purchase of land for Horton and Bowling parks; the Bill strongly opposed, but it received the Royal assent in June, 1875
- Bradford Waterworks and Improvement Act, 1878.
- Bradford Waterworks and Improvement Act, 1881
- Provisions of.
- Opposition to
- Royal assent
- Bradford Corporation List of Members
- Bradford Savings Bank first held
- Bradford Hall erected
- Bradford Club, established 1760 leading members.
- Bradford Beck, encroachments upon
- Bradford Canal, nuisance of.
- Bradford Observer, "estab. 1834
- Bradford Union formed; serious riot at the Court House; Riot Act read, and eight of the rioters committed to York Castle
- Bradfordians who became the first Commissioners
- Bradford Theatre.
- Bradford Moor Recreation Ground
- Bradford Markets
- Bradford Fairs- Alterations of date of holding
- Bradford exhibits at the Great Exhibition of 1851
- Bradford Assembly Rooms
- Bradbury, Wm, Superintendent of Markets and Fairs.
- Brayshaw, Wm, alderman; the oldest member of Council elected mayor in 1866
- British Association in Bradford
- Britannia Mills erected by C. & E. Ward in 1836. The largest spinning and manufacturing premises in existence at the time
- Brooksbank, Wm, silversmith councillor; an earnest supporter of the local charities and connected with the Floral Society
- Brownroyd Reservoir opnd, 1875
- Brown, H, a successful draper and clothier; alderman and seventh mayor; zealous in the discharge of every duty and said to have attended more public meetings than any previous mayor; left large legacies in his will for educational and charitable purposes
- Butterfield, Harris, appointed medical officer of health
- Canal question settled
- Castle said to have been in Bermondsey, Note
- Cappala Croft, a famous playground
- Census in 1780 to determine the right of Soke; Number of inhabitants in the townships
- Census twenty years later,
- Census in 1881
- Charter of Incorporation -
- Long contest betw'n the promoters and opponents
- Meeting in Mechanics' Institute and resolve to apply to the Privy Council another meeting called guarantee fund raised
- Analysis of signatures and counter petition
- Inquiry by Major Jebb and result of scrutiny on both sides.
- Refusal of the grant
- Steps adopted to renew the application to the Privy Council; petition presented in January, 1847 Charter granted by the Privy Council, on the 24th of April
- Cheapside widened.
- Cholera in Bradford. (3)
- Christ Church, removal of.
- Clough, Wm, Clerk to the Board of Highway Surveyors,
- appointed accountant and collector to the Corporation
- do. as Commissioners
- Cobden Statue, inauguration of (2)
- Commissioners, Lighting and Watching
- Obtain Act of Parliament 1803
- List of first Commissioners
- Powers
- Limits of jurisdiction
- First meeting and appointment of officers
- Compound with creditors
- Places of meeting
- Collision with Highway Surveyors
- List of Commissioners
- Transfer of power to Corporation
- Cooper, J. A, first town clerk
- Corporation Officers Salaries of.
- Corporation Seal
- Corporation constituted a Burial Board.
- Corporation Acts of Parliament 1850,
- 1854
- 1855
- 1858
- 1868
- 1873
- 1875
- 1878
- 1881
- Corporation Waterworks List of Reservoirs
- Corporation - List of Members
- Councillors first elected
- Qualifications of
- Councillors, list of.
- Council, motion to adjourn six months.
- Court House, Westgate, sketch of
- Court House, Hall Ings, erected 1833-34, particulars of cost
- Court of Quarter Sessions granted; Recorder appointed by the Government.
- Covered Markets, Kirkgate, as completed in 1872, formally opened by the mayor : the rest of the markets in Rawson Place and Leeds Road begun,
- Cowgill Lane.
- Cox, John H, appointed borough surveyor
- Crosse, Rev. J, established first Sunday school in Bradford
- Dale, John, commissioner, town councillor, many years secy to the Mechanics' Institute
- Dawson, M, councillor, alderman, and mayor; proposed the purchase of Lister Park
- Dean, Rev. John, minister of the Presbyterian Chapel, Chapel Lane, and one of founders of the Bradford Library in 1774
- Distress in 1837, means used to alleviate
- Documents left by the Commissioners and Surveyors.
- Drainage works resolved on and undertaken
- Second loan obtained for extending the system
- Driver, Peter, councillor.
- Exchange Buildings, Piccadilly
- Exchange, Market St, foundation stone of
- Exchange Railway Station Enlargement of.
- Farrar, Joseph, commissioner alderman, and mayor, and indefatigable member of the Corporation; one of founders of Mechanics' Institute.
- Fawcett, Richard, & Sons purchased and rebuilt Holme Mills,
- R. Fawcett, jun the leading spirit of the worsted trade, a Commissioner forty two years
- Fire engines acquired in 1806 First Fire Brigade,
- Fire Brigade station
- Flood in Dec, 1837, damage and loss of life,
- Flood in 1859 and estimated damage
- Forbes, Henry, third mayor energetic public man; active promoter of the Great Exhibition; one of the founders of the Mechanics' Institute
- Forster, W. E, Lectures on Pauperism and its proposed remedies "
- Nominated for the East Ward.
- Free Libraries Act adopted rooms tak'n for Free Library in Bradford; removal to Darley Street
- Garnett, James, sen, set up in 1794 first worsted spinning machine in Bradford.
- Garnett, James, jun, alderman
- Gaslight Company formed, 1821 first chairman and officers
- transferred to Corporation in 1871,
- new gasworks at Birkshall
- Gathorne Hardy ( Ld. Cranbrook)
- Gentry in Goodman's end fifty years ago
- George Hotel.
- George and Dragon Inn
- Gill, J. W, appointment as chief collector.
- Godwin, J. Venimore, alderman an energetic member of the Council; mayor, 1865-6; a member of the first Bradford School Board, and the Chamber of Commerce, (2)
- Gordon, John, alderman
- Gott, Chas, appointed borough surveyor and waterworks manager,
- resigned
- Grauhan, Wm, succeeded Mr Leveratt as chief constable
- Hailstone, S, solicitor, captain of the first company of the Bradford Volunteers in 1804
- Hall Ings formed
- Hamer, John, appointed borough accountant,
- Hardy, John, attorney, promoted the purchase of the Royds Hall estate, and the formation of Low Moor Company
- Hardy, John, barrister, recorder of Leeds, one of the first Parliamentary representatives of the borough
- Hemingways, of Boldshay
- Hick, Joseph, alderman.
- Highway Surveyors, new board
- Hobbis, Wm, surveyor to the Commissioners.
- Holden, Angus, elected mayor
- Estimate of character business connections, municipal career, opened Bowling Park, his sympathy with philanthropic movements public enterprise
- Holme Mill, fire at, in 1804
- Hoppey, H, usher at Grammar School and churchwarden's accountant
- Horton Park, first steps towards its acquisition,
- Hudson, Joseph, acting Superintendent of the Fire Brigade
- Hudson, Wm. Hector, town clerk concluded bargain with the old Waterworks Company and watched the Act of 1854 through Parliament; succeeded to his uncle Wagstaff's business, and took in Mr. Darlington as partner died 1861
- Hustler, John, one of the earliest promoters of the trade of Bradford, and energetic in the improvement of the town
- Ibbotson, Hy, boro' accountant
- Idle Hill Reservoir
- Ivegate, top of, widened.
- Jarratt, John, one of founders of Low Moor Ironworks.
- Jebb, Major, conducts inquiry into voting for Grant of Charter.
- Jowett, Wm, contractor under Commissioners
- Johnson's Map of Bradford in 1802
- Judy Barrett
- Kenion, Edward, alderman
- Law, James, alderman, the only member of the Council who never sat as councillor; mayor in 1867-8; a devoted Congregationalist; member of the School Board, Chamber of Commerce.
- Laycock, Samuel, bank manager first treasurer of the Corporation.
- Leeds and Bradford Railway opened.
- Leveratt, Wm, chief constable
- Lister, G. T, estimate of his character; said to have been best auctioneer out of L'ndn.
- Lister Park Mr. S. C. Lister's offer of Manningham Park; discussion and votes; offer accepted
- Lister, S. C, marble statue erected by public subscription (2)
- Lupton, Joshua, woolstapler active townsman, commissioner, and one of the first aldermen
- Mann, Thos. & John, the first stuff merchants in Bradford the former noted for making cork legs; " also built Mannville House.
- Manor Hall re-built. by Mr. Rawson
- Manor and manorial rights purchased in 1795 by Benj. Rawson, and erected a new market house,
- manorial rights purchased, Act of Parliament obtained.
- Market House erected by John Hustler and others
- Market Property re modelled and new covered market hall erected
- Market House at Waterloo built by Rev. Godfrey Wright.
- Market Street, improvement of first note struck for obtaining a charter of incorporation.
- Marriage of the Prince of Wales festivities and procession.
- Maud, W, leather breeches maker
- Maud, William, surgeon.
- Mayors, List of
- Mayor's Chain presented.
- Mayoral Dinners, first,
- McGowen, W. T, deputy town clerk of Liverpool, succeeded Mr. Rayner as town clerk.
- Medical Officer of Health apntd.
- Milligan, R, a Scotch lowlander and travelling draper, settled in Bradford about 1810, and became a most successful stuff merchant; was elected the first mayor, and twice member of Parliament. (2)
- Mills first erected by Messrs Swaine, Ramsbotham & Co Richard Fawcett & Son, and John Rand, senior.
- Mitchell, Henry, mayor, partner in the large firm of A. & S Henry & Co, distinguished for business sagacity and keen perception of mercantile interests; president of Bradford Technical Schools
- Mossman, G R, law clerk to the Commissioners, clerk to the W. B. Magistrates. (3)
- Mossman, Dr, renowned for his professional skill
- Murgatroyd, Wm, mayor during two years; engaged in several railway schemes.
- Newboult, J. T N appointed rate collector,
- New Exchange, foundation stone laid by Lord Palmerston
- New Leeds Orphan School
- New Street ( afterwards Market Street) projected by John Hustler, and nape changed on removal of market from Westgate. (2)
- Oastler Statue, erected on the site of the Old Woolpack Inn
- Occupiers of dwellings above £4 rental in 1805
- Octagon Chapel ( first Wesleyan)
- Officers of the Corporation
- Old Bradfordians of note.
- Old Brewery established in 1757
- Old Cockpit, a Baptist Church Wesleyan preaching room from the steps John Wesley preached in 1757
- Old Court House in Westgate
- Old Waterworks Co. obtained Parliamentary sanction to extend their scheme; new proprietory and change of name to Bradford Waterworks Company
- Outhwaite, Thomas, surgeon father of Dr. Outhwaite
- Palmerston, Lord, laid foundation stone of New Exchange
- Peckover, Edmund, treasurer to the Lighting and Watching Commissioners.
- Peel Park declared free of debt
- Handed over to Corporation
- Peel Statue inaugurated.
- Permanent Art Gallery, establishment of
- Persons keeping carriages in 1798
- Persons chargeable with duty on houses in 1798.
- Police Superannuation Fund established.
- Poor's account, amount raised by East" and " West End" (3)
- Preston, John, woolstapler
- Priestley, Briggs, elected Mayor
- successful business career; municipal connection opened Horton Park,
- liberal supporter of benevolent movements
- Promoters of the Lighting and Watching Act
- Publics in New Street in 1805 and the occupiers
- Queen's Mills and Soke Rights.
- Rand, John, & R Sons, aided materially in developing the worsted trade
- Rand, Wm, one of the first aldermen, director of waterworks company, and mayor; a Liberal Conservative.
- Ramsden, John, heald and slay maker, a commissioner, councillor, and twice alderman.
- Rawson, Wm, an enterprising attorney and general trader lessee of the market tolls manager of the Bradford taxes; rebuilt Manor Hall
- Rawson, John, solicitor, his appointment as town clerk,
- Rawson, John, cotton spinner
- Rawson, Jos, appointed deputy town clerk.
- Rawson's Arms Inn, site now occupied by District Bank
- Rawson v. Wright, an action by the Lord of the Manor against the Rev. Godfrey Wright for the erection of the Waterloo market in Hall Inge
- Rayner, Joseph, solicitor, Brighouse, succeeded Mr. Hudson as town clerk,
- resigned.
- Redhead, Rev. S.
- Refuse Destructor.
- Rhodes, Charles, councillor (2)
- Rhodes, Manoah, successful silversmith, alderman and mayor
- Richardsons of Birkshall.
- Ripley, Edward, the parent of Sir H. W. Ripley; leased the Bowling Dye Works.
- Rookeries in Bradford
- Rowntree, I, surveyor of streets
- Salt, Titus, Bart, born at Morley, embarked in business, his successful employment of alpaca in Bradford trade vast works erected at Saltaire, elected second mayor elected Member of Parliament, created a baronet 1867,
- Sandell, F. D, appointment as borough accountant.
- Sanitary Committee first apntd.
- School Board, first election, list of members.
- Schuster, Leo, first foreigner who erected a warehouse in Bradford
- Semon, Charles Joseph, the first foreign merchant elected mayor; a successful business man, foremost in many benevolent enterprises, erected and endowed the Convalescent Home at Ilkley, and presented it to the Corporation in 1876
- Sewage Defoecation scheme collapse of the Peat Engineering and Sewage Filtration Company; process of precipitation by lime successfully carried out; the cost
- purchase of land at Baildon
- Sharp, Wm. an eminent surgeon
- Shaw, E. Wm, borough surveyor
- Smith, Jos, land agent, designed several turnpike roads, commissioner, and afterwards alderman
- Smith, Samuel, mayor three years in succession; chief promoter of St. George s Hall, and Festival Choral Society
- Smith, S, of Melbourne Place alderman; amassed a vast library; first to suggest the formation of Free Library
- Smoke Nuisance first complained of.
- Social Science meeting in Bdfd
- Soke dues extinguished by the Corporation purchase of the Queen's Mills
- Spice Cake Corner"
- Stansfield family and the Esholt estates
- Station house in Swaine St. (2)
- St. George's Hall
- Foundation stone laid.
- Opened with Musical Festival (2)
- Street Improvements; official inquiry before applying to Parliament for powers to deal with Tyrrel Street Market Street, Westgate Kirkgate, Well Street.
- Sun Bridge Road, Formation of
- Sutcliffe, Wilson, succeeded Ald Mitchell as mayor, intimately associated with the improvements and expansion of the dyeing trade; partner in the firm of Messrs. Ripley & Son
- Technical School, Bradford
- Thompson, M. W, succeeded Alderman Wright as mayor
- elected mayor a second time, and perform'd the opening ceremony at the Town Hall; called to the bar acquired by marriage the Old Brewery; elected Member of Parliament,
- presentation of plate in St. George's Hall; appointed chairman of the Midland Railway
- Thompson, Richard, an attorney
- Thornton Moor Reservoir
- Town Hall, various sites proposed and final decision,
- foundation stone laid by the Mayor, Mark Dawson,
- description of
- Town Council, first meeting of
- Town's affairs managed by the Vestry before 1803
- Tradesmen of note in 1805
- Tramways Scheme - Powers obtained for; construction of
- Trout, T, postmaster
- Turles, now Tyrrel Street.
- Undercliffe Cemetery opened.
- Union Passage, daring pursuit of rioters by dragoon.
- Upper Barden Reservoir
- Vestry, long the ruling power in town's affairs.
- Victoria Hotel, first proposed.
- Visit of Japanese Ambassadors.
- Wagstaff, John Reid, first returning officer.
- Watchmen, under the Commissioners, number of beats remuneration, clothing, and shelter of the watchmen allowed to call persons up early
- Water works in Westgate.
- Waterworks, defects in Doe Park and Barden reservoirs
- Waterworks, rival schemes
- Waterworks, plan of
- Waud, Christopher, alderman
- Waud, George Motley, mayor of Bradford,
- prominent in mercantile affairs; municipal career; J. P. ; and energetic Conservative
- West, Edward, a leading member of the Society of Friends, and the first of that body to become mayor; an able financier, and well entitled to the local appellation, " Chancellor of the Exchequer" (2)
- Whitehead, William, alderman
- Wickham, H. W, M. P, death of
- Wilson, Quaker philanthropist
- Withers, James, succeeded Mr Grauhan as chief constable
- Wood, J, sen, comb manufctr.
- Woolcombers' strike.
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