Bradford's Got Problems?

Let’s face it Bradford has had bad press for more years than I remember. The bleakness the harsh reality of the people who live there and the press, media and films what have been portrayed around Bradford.

I blame the early eighties plays and films written based in Bradford didn’t help. These plays showed a middle reality of working class and the poor, swearing and rough behavior violence mixed with a comedic wit. It was funny at the time but it failed in a big way and here’s why. The main social issue was lost if these plays where written with no mention of Bradford at all it would have highlighted that the issues of teenage pregnancy heavy drinking and domestic violence where not just related to Bradford, but where real social issues back then that the state was failing on with social services bad housing and poverty. What happened with the added notoriety was what was born was "it’s In Bradford".

Thus Bradford was portrayed as a slum full of obnoxious swearing drinking rough people. Let’s not forget in the early eighties there’s was a raft of "working class plays" and even films to this day that the middle classes can go see in a theatre in London to sqof at the poor of the North then write about it in there columns on the Monday morning. Teenage mums benefit cheats and heavy drinking wife beaters and even apply these to any politician or public figure who deserved it.

So What’s Good About Bradford?
Well there's David Hockney for a start a born in Bradford artist not shy of his roots and his Facebook profile will probably say born in Bradford living in LA. Unlike most people who I know from Bradford who say they are really from Leeds or like the local airport Leeds/Bradford.

If you look at Hockneys work depicting Bradford it embodies it the brashness colour, honesty and rolling landscape of the area. Thers a fantastic unique gallery at Salts Mill which houses some of Hockney’s work.

Sir Titus Salt a famous Bradford area persona although long since gone in history he invented you could call it the Ikea town of the wool trade. Housing and living conditions for workers were lifted out of the mire (a little bit like Milton Keynes.

The National Media Museum first of all its free to look around and the cinemas inside are fantastic large seats great films and best of all a bar. It also houses the IMAX with a large variation of the latest 3D and features as well as conventional feature films in IMAX format.

Then there’s the Alhambra theatre beautifully restored to former glory it provides a real center piece in Bradford’s center. It probably cost more to restore than knock it down and start again with another one but hey that’s how things really look good don't they? Old things restored allow us to Marvel at them and every town has one Blackpool’s Winter Gardens and if you want count the O2 Arena (formerly Millennium dome).

So there is things to be proud about in Bradford, I know I was born in Keighley and I have visited Bury. Maybe I will update my Facebook page from Leeds/Bradford to just Bradford.

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