1901

Architecture	New Beehive Inn, Westgate Castle Blaney Buildings, Barry Street St James Wholesale Meat Market extended	Lidget Green Transport Depot {1901} Duckworth Lane Transport Depot {1977} Century Buildings, Sunbridge Road
Events	Population 228,628 Yorkshire Daily Observer (was Bfd Observer) Great Yorkshire Show - Dudley Hill (31/7) Jowett (Benjamin & William) opened cycle shop Heaton Rec. presented to Council by Lord Rosse Idle Working Mens Club founded	Mayor - WC Lupton Rates - 7s 2d Wilsden population 3,067 Bradford & West Bowling co-op merge (16/7) Smallpox in Bradford Manningham 12 (RL) - Bradford 1 (RL)
National	Queen Victoria died (22/1)  Leyton Orient FC turned professional Northern Rugby League formed (Yorks/Lancs merged)	King Edward VII (until 1910) Northampton Town FC turned professional
International	USA - William McKinley (died in office) USA - Theodore Roosevelt Presidential mansion renamed "The White House"	Commonwealth of Australia Boxer Rising ends Walt Disney born (5/12) {died 15 December 1966}
Sport	FA - Tottenham (Sheffield United) RLCC - Batley (Warrington)	1st - Liverpool (Sunderland) RL - Bradford (Halifax) - Yorks RL - Oldham (Swinton) - Lancs
Firsts	Vacuum cleaner patented  - Hubert Cecil Booth Car production in Detroit - Oldsmobile Petrol engined motorcycle in Britain Northern Rugby League formed (Yorks & Lancs combined) Motorised hearse Pierre Prier - First man to fly from London to Paris (12/4)	Victor Talking Machine Co - Eldridge Johnson Transatlantic radio transmission - Marconi Instant coffee Safety razor patented - King Camp Gillette Nestle UK factory
Arts/Media	O Sole Mio - Eduardo di Capua	Kim - Rudyard Kipling
Products	Rowntree's Table Jellies Toblerone chocolate bar Marmite	Underwood #5 typewriter Meccano  Shredded Wheat

1902

Architecture	Conditioning House, Canal Road (23/12) (Flickr) Behren's Warehouse, Chapel Street [LG] Merchants House, Peckover Street [LG] Rawson Market extension foundation stone Eastbrook Hall memorial stone Nelson Street Fire Station (28/10) {1969?}(Flickr) North Bierley cemetery consecrated (17/10)	Thornbury Transport Depot Bowling Junction station  (1/2) {1951} Wesleyan Chapel, Westgate Hill New  operating theatre at Royal Infirmary New isolation ward at Childrens Hospital St Oswald's Church consecrated (19/7)
Events	Smallpox epidemic 91 schools in Bradford Bradford Tramways transferred to Corporation (1/2) Cheapside to Frizinghall tram service (28/2) Frizinghall to Shipley tram service (29/4) Tram Ride Up Manningham Lane (YouTube) Allerton tram service (5/6) Pantomime (Red Riding Hood) at Princes Theatre Bradford City v Girlington (22/3)	Mayor - David Wade Rates - 7s 8d Freeman - Sir Francis Sharp Powell (24/10) Freeman - Alfred Illingworth (24/10)  Freeman - Sir Francis Sharp Powell Bus queue barriers Bradford (RL) had two points deducted (5/3)  Bradford 6 (RL)
National	PM - Arthur Balfour - Con {1905} Newton Heath changed name to Manchester Utd Second division added to Rugby League	Education Act  Chester FC turned professional Face-book
International	Boer War ended (31/5)
Sport	FA - Sheffield United (Southampton) RLCC - Broughton Rangers (Salford)	1st - Sunderland (Everton) RL - Broughton Rangers (Salford)
Firsts	Teddy Bears - Theodore Roosevelt
Arts/Media	Waterloo Bridge - Charles Monet Hound of the Baskervilles- Arthur Conan Doyle Three Sisters - Anton Chekhov	The Entertainer - Scott Joplin Just So Stories - Rudyard Kipling Times Literary Supplement
Products	Marmite	Frys Milk Chocolate (Five Boys)

1903

Architecture	193 Sunbridge Road [19DB03] 3? Bowland Street Bradford Central Baths memorial stone Extra electricity generating station, Valley Road	Green Lane school (5/1) Salt statue, Saltaire Park (4/11) "City Tyres", Thornton Road Botanical Gardens, Manningham Park
Events	"Whit" walk - Ivegate to York Education transferred to Local Authority Bradford Chamber of Trades formed (13/1) Cannon Mills fire (15/3) Listerhills Dyeworks fire Further outbreaks of smallpox Bradford City first game in football league Bradford League - Cricket formed City of Bradford Year Book	Mayor - David Wade Bradford City elected to 2nd Division Esholt sewage scheme adopted (26/3) Nab Wood to Thackley tram service (23/7) Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Thornbury (5/10) Last horse tram (1/9) Bradford Coffee Tavern Co. wound up Bradford City Manager - Robert Campbell {1905} Bradford 7 (RL1) - Manningham 10 (RL2)
National	Plymouth Argyle FC turned professional	Daily Mirror (2/11)
International
Sport	FA - Bury (Derby County) RLCC - Halifax (Salford)	1st - The Wednesday (Aston Villa) RL - Halifax (Salford)
Firsts	Wright brothers first flight (17/12)  Gillette razors and blades [USA] Hull crematorium - first municipal in UK UK number plate issued - DY1 (23/11)	Harley Davison motorbike Tour de France FIFA formed (21/5) Royal Hall, Harrogate
Arts/Media	Daily Mirror HP Sauce - Houses of Parliament Trademark	Man and Superman - George Bernard Shaw
Products	Crayola crayons	Midget Gems [Lion Confectionery, Cleckheaton]

1904

Architecture	Eastbrook Hall (21/3) {1986} {1996} Cartwright Hall (13/4) - Prince of Wales Queen Victoria statue (4/5)  Keighley Public Library (first Carnegie library)	Edmund Cartwright statue Saltaire Tram Shed {trams 1939} {buses 1978} Rawson Market
Events	Bradford Exhibition (4/5) Royal visit - Prince of Wales [King George V] Art College formed Diarrhoea outbreak - 23 dead Richard Mawson (architect) died Bradford Northern win Rugby League title	Mayor - WE Briggs Priestley Last horse drawn bus First bus stops Angram Reservoir - building commences Bradford City 10 (D2) - Bradford 1 (RL1)
National	Carlisle United FC formed as professional club Hull City FC formed	Exeter City FC formed  Scunthorpe United FC formed
International
Sport	FA - Manchester City (Bolton) RLCC - Halifax (Warrington) Olympic Games (3rd) - St Louis, USA	1st - The Wednesday (Manchester City) RL - Bradford (Salford)
Firsts	Portable vacuum cleaner (Booth/Goblin) Double sided records - Odeon, Germany Ice Cream Cone - Charles E Menches, USA	Thermos vacuum flask [Germany] Tea Bag - Thomas Sullivan, USA Pluto (planet) discovered (18/2)
Arts/Media	Madame Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini (17/2) Peter Pan - JM Barrie - play (27/12)	The Golden Bowl - Henry James Shell - Scallop Shell symbol
Products	Vim scouring powder	Ovaltine

1905

Architecture	Town Hall extension foundation stone (28/7) School of Art (27/9) Central Baths (Windsor), Morley Street (13/9) (Flickr) Union Infirmary Hospital (St Lukes) "Express Dairy", City Road Woolston House, Tetley Street 376 Thornton Road (RH Hopkinson)	Jaykam House, 63 East Parade [LG] Allerton Library (8/7) or 1916? Bowling Transport Depot {1977} Grange School (27/9) Rawson Place Market extended (18/4) - see 1875 James Street Fish Market covered - see 1891 St James's Church, Baildon
Events	Sir Henry Irving died (13/10) - Midland Hotel  Smallpox outbreak Winston Churchill at St Georges Hall (3/3) Union Mills, Eccleshill destroyed by fire Boer War memorial plaque, Bingley Hammerton Street Mills gutted by fire (17/7)	Mayor - WA Whitehead First bus timetable issued Great Horton Sunday Schools burned down (20/2) Scholemoor Cemetery first cremation (30/11) Bradford City Manager - Peter O'Rourke {1921}  Bradford City 8 (D2) - Bradford 2 (RL1)
National	PM - Henry Campbell Bannerman - Lib {1908} Chelsea FC formed  as a professional club Hull City FC turned professional Norwich City FC formed as a professional club Shrewsbury Town FC turned professional  Queen Mary died (24/3)	Charlton Athletic FC formed Crystal Palace FC formed as a professional club Mansfield Town FC formed as a professional club Rotherham United FC turned professional Rugby League combined 1st and 2nd divisions
International	USA - Theodore Roosevelt Mutiny on the battleship Potemkin	Jules Verne died (24/3)
Sport	FA - Aston Villa (Newcastle United) RLCC - Warrington (Hull KR)	1st - Newcastle United (Everton) RL - Oldham (Bradford)
Firsts	Theory of Relativity - Albert Einstein Neon signs Blackpool Pleasure Beach	Cellophane - Edwin Brandenberger English FA joined FIFA (14/4) AA Founded
Arts/Media	Kipps - HG Wells	The Merry Widow - Franz Lehar
Products	Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate	Brasso

1906

Architecture	Bowland Street Synagogue (24/6) 98-106 Morley Street	Shipley Public Baths
Events	Samuel Cunliffe Lister - Lord Masham died (2/2) Royal Infirmary purchased by Council for £100,000 Black Dyke Mills band tour USA Jowett built first motor car - Grosvenor Road "Whit Walk" became circular Thornton Road baths closed (17/3) Bradford Northern win the Rugby League Cup	Lord Mayor - JA Godwin Hot day - 101.2 at Lister Park Esholt estate purchased by Council Charlie Chaplin appears at Empire Theatre Sedbergh Boys Club founded Chelsea 5 Bradford City 1 (15/9)  Bradford City 11 (D2) - Bradford 12 (RL)
National	Provision of Meals Act First execution at Wakefield jail (11/4)	Southend United FC formed as a professional club Piccadilly Line opened (15/12)
International	San Francisco earthquake (18/4)  Simplon Tunnel opened (19/5)	Mount Vesuvius erupted (7/4)
Sport	FA - Everton (Newcastle United) RLCC - Bradford Northern (Salford)	1st - Liverpool (Preston) RL - Leigh (Hunslet)
Firsts	Speech transmitted by wireless - Fessenden Gabel's "Automatic Entertainer" - Jukebox Ritz Hotel, London Vauxhall Bridge, London (26/5)	Rugby International - England beat France (22/3) Grand Prix - Le Mans (26/6) AA Badge issued to members
Arts/Media
Products	Drambuie - liquor	WK Kellog Toasted Corn Flake Co - cereal (19/2)

1907

Architecture	Thackley (Open Air) school Park Avenue cricket pavillion (9/11) Thornton Cemetery consecrated (3/4)	Green Lane cooking depot (28/10) Edderthorpe Street Mills destroyed by fire (19/1) New Liberal Club, Wyke (26/1)
Events	First school meals/milk in England (Green Lane) Park Avenue switched to soccer Esholt sewage works scheme is adopted (12/2) Empire Stores (Herbert Fattorini) Bradford Old Bank & Birmingham Bank amalgamated (12/1) Bradford Northern (RL) formed	Lord Mayor - JE Fawcett Nidd Valley Railway (11/9) Church Bank tramway crash - 14 injured (31/7) Church Bank tramway crash - Board of Trade report (22/10)  General Booth (Salvation Army) visited Shipley (24/7) Bradford (RL) become Bradford Park Avenue Bradford City 5 (D2) - Bradford 18 (RL)
National	Rochdale FC formed as a professional club	First female councillors elected
International	Oklahoma became a USA state (46th)	New Zealand becomes Domininion of
Sport	FA - Sheffield Wednesday (Everton) RLCC - Warrington (Oldham)	1st - Newcastle United (Bristol City) RL - Halifax (Oldham) RL - Halifax (Oldham) - playoffs
Firsts	Photocopier marketed Electric washing machine - Hurley, USA  Brooklands - 1st purpose built racing track Isle of Man TT - Touring Trophy (28/5)	Boy Scouts founded by Baden-Powell (29/7) Professional Footballers Association Fare meters in London taxis (22/3)
Arts/Media	Persil washing powder
Products

1908

Architecture	Skating rink - Rolarena, Manningham Lane (10/11) {1955} St Joseph's College (26/2) Thackley Open Air school Wilton Street pianoforte works destroyed by fire (8/2)	Belle Vue school extension (10/12) Manningham Library foundation stone ? Longside Lane  [WF] Muff Field Wesleyan Reform School (29/8)
Events	First clinic in England (Manor Row) Bradford City  - First Division (22/4) Meteorological instruments at Lister Park Electric street lights - Manningham Lane & Morley Street Driver charged with speeding - 12 to 16mph Bradford Park Avenue first league game Vic Feather born Map of Bradford city centre (Flickr)	Lord Mayor - Sir James Hill Busbys founded - Kirkgate (moved 1930) Ickringill's Mill Disaster (25/9) Petrol driven fire engine (17/11) Arthur Poulter awarded the Victoria Cross Bradford City became limited company Bradford City 1P (D2) - Northern 12 (RL)
National	PM - Herbert Asquith - Lib {1916} Old Age Pension for 70+ (6/5) Darlington FC turned professional Hartlepool United formed as a professional club	Coventry FC turned professional Exeter City FC turned professional Huddersfield Town formed as a professional club "Votes For Women" - Hyde Park Rally (21/6)
International	Geronimo dies (17/2)	Crete becomes part of Greece
Sport	FA - Wolverhampton (Newcastle United) RLCC - Hunslet (Hull) Olympic Games (4th) - London	1st - Manchester United (Aston Villa) RL - Oldham (Hunslet) RL - Hunslet (Oldham) - playoffs
Firsts	Lever filling fountain pen patented - Schaeffer Bureau of Investigation (FBI) founded in USA (26/7) Paper cup introduced in USA	Ideal Home Exhibition - London Electric Iron introduced in USA
Arts/Media	Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
Products	Cadbury's Bournville chocolate Cadbury's Neopolitan chocolate	Toblerone Model T Ford {1927}

1909

Architecture	Town Hall extension (28/9) (Flickr) Toller Lane skating rink (30/9) {?} Undercliffe Pavillion, Northcote Rd (10/4) {1922} Towers Hall skating rink (6/4) Bowling Spinning mill destroyed by fire (13/11)	Technical College extension foundation stone (5/11) Wesleyan Reform Church, Little Horton Broomfield Public Baths (26/6) Institute for the Blind workshops (9/7) St Peter's Church, Shipley consecrated (1/5)
Events	Bradford to Leeds tram service (7/6) Yorkshire Observer {1956} Sunday Observance Committee formed (10/9) Fred Karno's Circus (with Charle Chaplin) at Empire Woolcombers strike began (22/7) New Arts Club opened (2/10)	Lord Mayor - William Land Cinderella Club home, Morecambe (17/4) Bradford Choral Union formed (19/7) Thwaites station closed (1/7) Young boy drowned in the Bradford Canal (20/9)  Bradford City 18 (D1) - Avenue 16 (D2) - Northern 23 (RL)
National	Road Traffic Regulations	Daily Sketch (2/3) - merged with Daily Mail in 1971
International	USA - William Howard Taft	Geronimo died on reservation (17/2)
Sport	FA - Manchester United (Bristol City) RLCC - Wakefield (Hull)	1st - Newcastle United (Everton) RL - Wigan (Halifax) RL - Wigan (Oldham) - playoffs
Firsts	Harris Tweed trademark registered Flight across the English Channel - Louis Bleriot (25/7)  "Kinemacolor" demonstrated in London (26/2)	Toilet paper (in roll) Bakelite - Leo Baekeland, USA
Arts/Media	Daily Sketch	Selfridges department store - first in Britain
Products	Persil, washing powder (ingredients PERborate & SILicate) Maynards Wine Gums	Courvoisier, brandy Nuttal's Mintoes

1910

Architecture	147-151 Sunbridge Road [c 1905-10] Labour Exchange opened (1/2) Bolton Road Cottage baths (28/4) Manningham Library, Carlisle Road	New Canal Dock, Esholt (4/1) City Court opened (26/1) Samaritan Hospital (12/4)
Events	1000th car registered in Bradford Winston Churchill at St Georges Hall (26/11) Picturedrome cinema , Bridge Street (21/3) {1956}(external Link) Union Mills, Eccleshill destroyed by fire (21/7) Bradford Pageant (12/12) Glen Tramway had 17,000 passengers at Easter Fred Karno's Circus (with Charle Chaplin) at Empire Strychnine in a country house at East Bierley (5/3)	Lord Mayor - Jacob Moser Freeman - Samuel Peel Myers (22/9) Wool Combers strike (5/3) 2000 roadside trees planted (16/3 -) Strike at Kit Wauds (30/3) Land acquired for new Infirmary (9/4) Bradford City 7 (D1) - Avenue 10 (D2) - Northern 23 (RL)
National	King George V {until 1936} King Edward VII died (6/5) Dr Crippen arrested (31/7) & sentenced to death (21/10)  AA amalgamated with the Motor Union Charles Rolls died (12/7)	FA Cup (2nd) presented to Lord Kinnaird Cardiff City FC turned professional Florence Nightingale died (13/8)  Funeral of Mrs Criipen (12/10)
International	Mark Twain died (21/4)  Emiliano Zapata killed in Mexico (10/4)	Union of South Africa becomes a Dominion
Sport	FA - Newcastle United (Barnsley) RLCC - Leeds (Hull)	1st - Aston Villa (Liverpool) RL - Oldham (Salford) RL - Oldham (Wigan) - playoffs
Firsts	Neon lighting (Georges Claude, France) Five Nations Championship - Rugby Union	Labour Exchange - England (1/2) Old Trafford, Manchester United
Arts/Media	History of Mr Polly - HG Wells Persil - first washing powder advertised in a newspaper	Firebird - Igor Stravinsky
Products	OXO cube Subbuteo	Heinz Tomato Soup [USA] Peek Frean Bourbon biscuit

1911

Architecture	Technical College extension (25/10) Prince's Hall cinema, Shipley (24/6) Holmefield Buildings, Thornton Road	Kings Hall cinema, White Abbey (20/2) {1930} United States Metallic Packing Co, Soho Works, Allerton Road Unity Hall (16/11)
Events	Population 288,458 First Trolley Bus (with Leeds) in the country (Trial 20/6) (Service 24/6) {1972} Visit from Edward Sousa and his band (9/2) Chapel Lane flooded after thunderstorm (3/8) Samuel Ledgard Bus Company founded - Armley Theatre de Luxe cinema, Bridge St (14/1) {1923} Hippodrome cinema, Barkerend Rd (20/2) {1961) Bingley College founded FA Cup (3rd) made by Fattorinis (Birmingham) Bradford to Leeds mail carried by tramcar (1/4)	Lord Mayor - John Batt Moorhouse Towers Hall cinema, Manchester Rd (25/9) {1966} Eccleshill Picture Palace (2/10) {1931} Queens Hall cinema, Laisterdyke (23/10) {1957} Bradford City FA cup winners (25/4) Albion Mills, Greengates destroyed by fire (10/3) Valley Road Dyeworks destroyed by fire (20/11) Explosions in Bradford Beck - 3 killed (1/12) Bradford Sporting Club opened Bradford City 5 (D1) - Avenue 12 (D2) - Northern 23 (RL)
National	George V coronation Halifax Town FC formed as a professional club Official Secrets Act	Railway strike Copyright Act Sir W.S. Gilbert died (29/5)
International	Chinese Republic proclaimed Mona Lisa stolen from the Louvre (22/8)	Roald Amundsen reaches South Pole (15/12) Gustav Mahler died (18/5)
Sport	FA - Bradford City (Newcastle United) - replay RLCC - Broughton (Wigan)	1st - Manchester United (Aston Villa) RL - Wigan (Oldham) RL - Oldham (Wigan) - playoffs
Firsts	Monte Carlo Rally (21/1) Indy 500 (30/5)	British Board of Film Censors (5/11)
Arts/Media	Peter Pan - JM Barrie Alexander's Ragtime Band - Irving Berlin	Der Rosenkavalier - Richard Strauss Keystone Cops - Stan Sennett
Products	Basildon Bond - notepaper Cadbury's Milk Flake	Wrigleys Juicy Fruit & Spearmint gum [UK]

1912

Architecture	Grand Picture House (1/7) {1932} Elysian Palace, Lidget Green (16/9) {1955} "Ruby House", Dyson Street Heaton Cottage Baths (26/2)  Prospect Hall	Tivoli Picture Hall, Leeds Road (23/9) {1956} Dudley Hill Picture Palace (9/12) {1967} St Chad's church fnd stone (17/2) Technical College extended
Events	Heavy snowdrifts (19/1) Labour Exchange opens in Bridge Street Grattan Warehouses (John Fattorini) Idle Picture Palace , The Green (12/1) {1959) Coliseum cinema, Toller Lane (21/10) {1959} Picture House, Town Hall Square (23/12) {1945} Municipal General Hospital becomes St Luke's Free Library for the Blind opened (15/6) Bradford Playgoers Society formed (19/5) Map of Bradford city centre (Flickr) Map of Bradford (Flickr)	Lord Mayor - Fred Foster Freeman - Rev William H Keeling (10/10) Freeman - Earl Haigh (26/1) Oak Lane Picture House (18/11) {1936} Thornton Mechanics cinema (10/12) {1958} Kozey Picture Hall, Thornbury (2/12) {1920} Russian ballerina Pavlova appeared at Theatre Royal (31/10) Bolling Hall acquired by Corporation Bradford City 11 (D1) - Avenue 11 (D2) - Northern 26 (RL)
National	Goalkeeper can only handle inside penalty area Bram Stoker died (20/4) Scunthorpe United FC turned professional Tranmere Rovers FC turned professional	Bournemouth FC turned professional Swansea City FC turned professional Wrexham FC turned professional
International	Titanic sank (15/4) Scott reaches the South Pole (18/1)	New Mexico becomes 47th state Arizona becomes 48th state
Sport	FA - Barnsley (West Bromwich Albion) RLCC - Dewsbury (Oldham) Olympic Games (5th) - Stockholm, Sweden	1st - Blackburn Rovers (Everton) RL - Huddersfield (Wigan) RL - Huddersfield (Wigan) - playoffs
Firsts	WA Sheaffer Pen Company founded British Board of Film Censors Parachute Jump - Captain Berry, St. Louis, Missouri (1/3)	"Piltdown Man" discovered (forgery) Girl Guides, USA [Juliette Gordon Low] (12/3) Blackpool Illuminations
Arts/Media	Pravda {1996}	Daily Herald - newspaper{?}
Products	Daddie's Favourite - sauce

1913

Architecture	Grattan Warehouse, 67 East Parade [LG] Elite cinema, Toller Lane (1/8) {1968} Artillery Barracks, Valley Parade (19/12)	Scala cinema, East parade (2/8) {1922} 136 Sunbridge Road [DB]
Events	Coventry Hall cinema, Wakefield Rd (22/4){1959} Bradford tramway extended to Baliff Bridge (17/3) James Berry (Public Hangman) died Bradford Corporation Act Manningham Mills fire - 3 workers died (15/4) Palmerston Buildings, Manor Row destroyed by fire	Lord Mayor - John Arnold Bfd Moor golf course damaged by suffragettes First plane flew over Bradford (1/8) Child murdered in Newby Street Barkerend Mills damaged by fire (22/5) Bradford City 13 (D1) - Avenue 13 (D2) - Northern 17 (RL)
National	Soccer freekick - players must be 10 yards away  Suffragette throws herself under King's horse at Derby (4/6)	Canberra became capital of Australia (12/3)
International	USA - Woodrow Wilson	Mahatma Ghandi arrested in India
Sport	FA - Aston Villa (Sunderland) RLCC -  Huddersfield (Warrington)	1st - Sunderland (Aston Villa) RL - Huddersfield (Wigan) RL - Huddersfield (Wigan) - playoffs
Firsts	Crossword puzzle Federal Reserve Bank - USA Wimbledon - Ladies Doubles & Mixed Doubles London Underground logo	PA system Rockefeller Foundation - USA Grand Central Station, New York Arsenal Stadium, Highbury
Arts/Media	The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw	Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence New Statesman  - magazine
Products	Morris Oxford

1914

Architecture	Alhambra Theatre (18/3) - Francis Laidler Ideal Picture House (19/2) {1930} Majestic/Picture House (2/4) {1956} Pavilion cinema (2/4) {1956} Plaza cinema (29/9) {1963} Cleckheaton Colliery Company	Victoria cinema (19/10) {1961} Essoldo ciinema (1/10) {1965} Empress cinema (22/10) {1956} Birch Lane cinema (12/11) {1959} Queens Hall, Morley Street
Events	Visit from Lord Baden Powell (6/6) Town Hall - new staircase opened (9/10) Winston Churchill at St Georges Hall (14/3)  Bradford Army Veterans Association formed (27/1) Fire at Northbrook Brewery, Manningham (27/2) 59 miles of tramway and 252 trams City centre flooded - £100,000 damage First "camp" school - Daisy Hill Alhambra - first performance (23/3) Corporation agree to buy Infirmary for £100,000 (10/2) Visit from Prince Joseph of Uganda (12/5) Union Street warehouse fire (7/1)	Lord Mayor - George Henry Robinson Olympic cinema (16/2) {1923} Oxford cinema (9/4) {1966} Low Moor cinema (14/9) {1957} Dawsons, first concrete buildings collapses (12/2) Explosion at Heckmondwyke (2/12) 1st Bradford Pals Battalion formed (20/9) First football "derby" game Horse-drawn fire engines withdrawn from service Maternity Care Committee formed Man dies during construction of Alhambra (3/3)  Bradford City 9 (D1) - Avenue 2P (D2) - Northern 24 (RL)
National	Irish Home Rule Bill  SS Britannic launched (26/2)	Education (Provision of Meals) Act  Sir John Tenniel : 1820-1914 (28/2)
International	Archduke Ferdinand of Austria assassinated (28/6)  Austria- Hungary declares war on Servia (28/7)  Germany declares war on Russia (2/8)  Germany at war with France (3/8)  Great Britain declares war on Germany (4/8)	Your King & Country Need You (6/8)  Panama Canal opened (15/8)
Sport	FA - Burnley (Liverpool) RLCC - Hull (Wakefield)	1st - Blackburn Rovers (Aston Villa) RL - Huddersfield (Salford) RL - Salford (Huddersfield) - playoffs
Firsts	Elastic Brassiere - Mary Phelps Jacob Blood transfusion - Belgium (27/3) Air conditioning patented	Scheduled air service - Florida Moving car assembly line - Model T Ford
Arts/Media	Tarzan of the Apes - Edgar Rice Burroughs	Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw
Products	Fry's Turkish Delight Cadbury's Plain Tray chocolates	Heinz Salad Cream

1915

Architecture	Textile Hall, Westgate Lido, Manningham Park	Blind Workshop, Frizinghall
Events	Shipley cinema (20/12) {1932} Bolling Hall opened as museum (22/9) Military Hospital opened at Field House (24/2) Chapel Lane flooded (?/8) Rates raised from 9s 3d to 9s 9d Sir Fred Hoyle born - Bingley	Lord Mayor - Thomas Howarth Manchester Road station closed (31/12) 2nd Bradford Pals Battalion formed Two goods trains collided (23/1) Bradford Pals march to camp at Skipton (15/1) Bradford City 10 (D1) - Avenue 9 (D1) - Northern 19 (RL)
National	SS Lusitania sunk by German submarine (8/5)  W.G. Grace died (23/10)  Sunday Pictorial (14/3) - became Sunday Mirror in 1963	Lord Beaverbrook purchases the Daily Express Rupert Brooke died (23/4)
International	Gallipoli (25/4)	Battle of the Somme (1/7)
Sport	FA - Sheffield United (Chelsea) RLCC - Huddersfield (St Helens)	1st - Everton (Oldham Athletic) RL - Huddersfield (Wigan) RL - Huddersfield (Leeds) - playoffs
Firsts	Womens Institute (WI) founded in Britain Albert Einstein - Theory of Relativity	Pyrex  Metal aircraft - Junker
Arts/Media	The Thirty Nine Steps - John Buchan  In Flanders Field - John McRae (3/5)	Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag
Products	Cadbury's Milk Tray chocolates

1916

Architecture	St Lukes War Hospital extension (5/10)	Recreation grounds, Legrams Lane/St Michaels Road (19/4)
Events	Low Moor explosion - 39 died (21/8) 500 painters and decorators on strike (18/4 to 16/5)) Somme - Bradford Pals, only 323 of 2000 survive Donald Bell awarded the Victoria Cross Bill Chafer awarded the Victoria Cross George Sanders awarded the Victoria Cross Short 184 torpedo bomber built in Bradford YMCA opened in Forster Square (24/3)	Lord Mayor - Abram Peel Bradford Motor Volunteers public parade (5/2) Ramsay MacDonald visited (25/11) Telegraph moves to Observer offices (28/2) Samuel Ingham awarded the Victoria Cross Special constables (200) start patrols at night (16/2) Alhambra and Empire Theatre amalgamated (1/5) Allerton library opened see also 1905
National	PM - David Lloyd George - Coalition {1922} British Summer Time introduced	Military Service Act - conscription National Savings movement launched
International	Andrew Carnegie died (11/8)  Easter Rising - Dublin	Grigory Rasputin murdered (30/12)
Sport	6th Olympic Games (Berlin) cancelled
Firsts	Coca Coca bottle	Military Tank (Battle of the Somme)
Arts/Media	Water Lilies - Claude Monet	Hobson's Choice - Harold Brighouse
Products

1917

Architecture	Baildon Picture House (5/2) {1960}
Events	Municipal midwives (first in UK) Wool warehouseman dies of anthrax Union Street warehouse fire Bradford District Bank merged with the National  Provincial Sunbeams - Princes Theatre (Robin Hood) Shipley Glen Railway up for sale - then withdrawn	Lord Mayor - John Bland (died) - H.H. Tetley Yorkshire Observer cost 1.5d Bradford Daily Telegraph cost 1d Christopher Pratt and Sons fire Thomas Maufe awarded the Victoria Cross
National	Royal family adopted the name of Windsor (17/7)
International	USA - Theodore Roosevelt Count Von Zeppelin : 1838-1917 (8/3)	USA declares war on Germany (6/4) William Cody/Buffalo Bill died (10/1)
Sport
Firsts	"Freezing" developed by Clarence Birdseye CBE award	Pulitzer Prize
Arts/Media	Isvestia
Products	Aspro trade name registered	Ambrosia dried milk

1918

Architecture	Rugby Union ground, Lidget Green
Events	Royal visit - King George V and Queen Mary Empire cinema (11/2) {1952} HR Jackson's founded in Manchester Road Horace Cannon awarded the Albert Medal (George Cross)	Lord Mayor - J Hayhurst (died) -  W Barber Tramway workers on strike for 4 days (16/3)  William Lupton died Wool Control stock-taking (26/3)
National	Education Act  (school leaving age raised to 14) RAF formed (1/4)	Women allowed to vote for first time (14/12) Sunday Express (29/12)
International	End of World War 1 (11/11) Claude Debussy died (24/3)	Baron von Richthofen shot down and killed (21/4)  Tsar Nicholas Romanoff of Russia executed (16/7)
Sport
Firsts	Three Colour Traffic Lights - New York
Arts/Media	Tarzan of the Apes - film	Tiger Rag - Original Dixieland Jazz Band
Products	Jelly Babies	Fox's Glacier Mints

1919

Architecture	Lyceum cinema (18/12) {1962}	Cliffe Mills, Bartle Lane destroyed by fire
Events	Parish church became Cathedral (6/10) Betty's Cafe - Ilkley Northcliffe Woods given to Shipley UDC Vester Tilley final performance, Alhambra (29/11) Manningham Mills fire (28/12) HR Jackson founded {2004} Arsenal 1 Bradford City 2 (25/10)	Lord Mayor - William Wade Royds House presented to Wilsden HR Jackson - Glass and china Cliffe Mills, Great Horton damaged by fire Northern 11 (YRL) Windsor Halls re-opened (3/10)
National	Yorkshire Miners strike ended (12/8) Leeds United FC formed  Rationing Ends	Cambridge United FC formed Armistice Day - "Two Minutes Silence" (11/11)
International	Auguste Renoir died aged 78 (3/12)  Henry J. Heinz died (14/5)	Theodore Roosevelt died (6/1)
Sport		RL -  Hull (Leeds) - Yorks RL - Rochdale (Leigh) - Lancs
Firsts	Greyhound racing - California Motor scooter Airline - Dutch KLM	Helicopter flight Trans-Atlantic flight - Alcock & Brown (16/6)  Two Minutes Silence for Armistice Day
Arts/Media	New York Daily News	Just William -
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1920s

Architecture

Barclays Bank, Market Street

1920

Architecture	Savoy cinema, Darley Street (29/3) {1939} Clayton/Rialto cinema (22/11) {1956} Richard Oastler statue moved to Rawson Square St James Cattle Auction Market (17/4)	Forster school Gregory school Priestman school
Events	Double decker bus (3/11) Theatre Royal sold by auction (3/6) Eccleshill Memorial Clock (4/9) Saltaire Park given to Council by Sir James Roberts (8/1) Nurses Home - Field House, Duckworth Lane Jowett Cars moved to Idle Northcliffe Woods, Shipley opened (12/6) Bishop of Bradford enthroned (17/2)	Lord Mayor - Anthony Gadie Kozey Picture Hall closed Outbreak of foxes at Thackley (22/5) Tram fares increase to 2d (1/10) St Luke's Hospital transferred to Council - first in country(1/4) Rates set at 16s 10d Bradford City - FA cup match (6/3)  Bradford Park Avenue - FA cup match (6/3)  Bradford City 15 (D1) - Avenue 11 (D1) - Northern 24 (RL)
National	Government of Ireland Act Charlton Athletic FC turned professional	Leeds United FC turned professional
International	USA - Prohibition comes into force (16/1) {1933} League of Nations established (10/1)	USA - Women allowed to vote
Sport	FA - Aston Villa (Huddersfield) RLCC - Huddersfield (Wigan)  Olympic Games (7th) - Antwerp, Belgium	1st - West Bromwich Albion (Burnley) RL - Huddersfield (Hull) RL - Hull (Huddersfield) - playoffs
Firsts	Radio broadcast Oxford University awarded degrees to women	Pitney Bowes (franking machines) founded The Cenotaph, London
Arts/Media	Story of Doctor Doolittle - Hugh Lofting	Sub-Machine gun - John T Thompson
Products	Band Aid [USA]	Smiths Potato Crisps

1921

Architecture	Marlboro cinema (28/11) {1962} Princeville Nursery school	Bandstand, Northcliffe Woods, Shipley (26/5)
Events	Population 285,961 Theatre Royal opened as cinema (5/12) {1974} Minor earthquake BRI - X-Ray equipment for cancer treatment (8/8) Bradford City Manager - David Menzies {1926} Hard tennis courts in Peel Park (19/2) 2,196 trees planted on roads around the city Peerage conferred on AH Illingworth (14/5) Unemployed - 60,120 (unofficial figures) Map of City Centre showing Theatres  Bradford/Leeds ring road proposal	Lord Mayor - Thomas Blythe Rates - 18s 3d Freeman - Sgt J.W. Robertshaw (13/9) Freeman - Sir James Hill (25/10) Freeman - Field Marshall Earl Haigh (26/1) Freemen - ex Servicemen (22/7) Women jurors at Quarter Sessions (7/1) Heatwave, temperatures of 130F (77F in shade) Memorial window for 6th West Yorks Regiment at Cathedral (24/7) Bradford City 15 (D1) - Avenue 22R (D1) - Northern 23 (RL)
National	Miners strike Torquay United FC turned professional Duke of Edinburgh - Prince Philip born  (9/6)	Sunday postal deliveries ended "Chequers" donated to Prime Minister Temple Newsam, Leeds opened to the public (19/10)
International	USA - Warren G Harding (died in office)	Death of Enrico Caruso (2/8)
Sport	FA - Tottenham (Wolverhampton) RLCC - Leigh (Halifax)	1st - Burnley (Manchester City) RL - Hull KR (Hull) RL - Hull (Hull KR) - playoffs
Firsts	HMV Upright vacuum cleaner (Booth/Goblin) Insulin injection for a diabetic	Hoover trademark registered British Legion / Poppy Appeal Gramophone Company (HMV), Oxford Street, Londo
Arts/Media	Women in Love - DH Lawrence	The Kid - film (Charlie Chaplin The Sheik - film (Rudolph Valentino)
Products	Chanel No. 5 perfume (5/5)	Cadbury's Fruit & Nut chocolate

1922

Architecture	Cenotaph/First World War memorial (1/7) Saltaire cinema (17/6) {1957} Tramway station - Forster Square	Carlton cinema (23/9) {1962} Grange cinema (23/12) {1961} Park Road cinema (22/7) {1961}
Events	Bradford Canal closed VC awarded to Sgt Sam Meekosha (22/1) Undercliffe Pavillion blown down in gale Printers strike (11/8) John Braine born Rotary Club founded (14/3) Bettys Cafe - 42/44 Darley Street {1974}	Lord Mayor - Thomas Sowden Corp[oration clothing department closed (9/5) Scala cinema closed Foster Park, Denholme opened (13/5) Blighty Club opened Bradford City 21R (D1) - Avenue 22R (D2) - Northern 26 (RL)
National	PM - A Bonar Law - Con {1923} Irish Free State (6/12) Sir Ernest Shackleton died (5/1)	York City FC formed as a professional club Northern Ireland votes not to join Irish Free State Death of Dr. Graham Bell (2/8)
International	USA - Calvin Coolidge Tutankhamen tomb discovered - Howard Carter	SS formed in Germany Mahatma Ghandi imprisoned for 6 years
Sport	FA - Huddersfield (Preston) RLCC - Rochdale (Hull)	1st - Liverpool (Tottenham) RL - Oldham (Wigan) RL - Wigan (Oldham) - playoffs
Firsts	Football Pools (14/9) Blue salt packet added to Smiths crisps Marie Stopes birth control campaign - London Insulin used to treate diabetes (11/1)	Austin Seven (21/7) {1939} Walls Ice Cream BBC broadcast - 2LO
Arts/Media	Readers Digest - magazine	Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams Bianco
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1923

Architecture	Esholt Tunnel completed (17/7) Coronet cinema (2/7) {1958} Park Road cinema (22/7) {1961} Tennyson cinema (15/10) {1961} Norman Rae Maternity Home, Shipley (4/9)	Blind Workshop, Frizinghall (7/2) - Earl of Onslow Daisy Hill school Hall Ings experimental rubber road setts laid (23/10) Bridge over Thornton Rd - Prince of Wales (30/5) Emm Lane widened
Events	Council staff (200) on strike (20/4) Theatre de Luxe cinema closed (16/6) Record billiard break by Wilkie Smith (6/2) Northcliffe woods bandstand Royal visit - Prince of Wales [King Edward VIII] Mill fire (2/8) Controlled tipping at Odsal commenced (became RL ground) Heavy flooding - Aire & Wharfe (14/11)	Lord Mayor - Herbert M Trotter Olympic cinema closed (20/1) Tree planting, Lady Hill park (20/1) International Theatre Exhibition (4/6) Bradford to Dick Hudson walk (2/4) Scheme to clear White Abbey approved (19/7) Prime Ministers of Australia and New Zealand visited (6/12) Bradford City 15 (D2) - Avenue 2 (D3) - Northern 26 (RL)
National	PM - Stanley Baldwin - Con {1929} Minimum age for drinking became 18 Royal Wedding - Duke & Duchess of York (26/4)	Peterborough United FC formed Dr. John Venn died (3/4)
International	USSR Tomb of Tutankhamen opened (16/2)	Japanese earthquake destroys Yohohama
Sport	FA - Bolton (West Ham United) - Wembley RLCC - Leeds (Hull)	1st - Liverpool (Sunderland) RL - Hull (Huddersfield) RL - Hull KR (Huddersfield) - playoffs
Firsts	Woggle - UK Cubs Electric shaver patented - Joseph Schick Flying Scotsman - railway locomotive Moscow Underground (23/4)	Supermarket, San Francisco Cotton Club, Harlem, New York Le Mans 24 Hour Race (25/5)
Arts/Media	Radio Times (28/9)	Time magazine
Products	Mars Bar [Milky Way in USA]	Cadbury's Creme Eggs

1924

Architecture	24 Sunbridge Road [datestone] - see 1880 YMCA opened by Princess Mary (23/2) Ladyhill Park Pavillion (3/5)	St William (RC) church Putting Green, Bowling Park [first in Bradford] (21/5)
Events	Zetland Mills, floor collapsed - 4 died (10/1) Low Moor Disaster memorial, Scholemore (24/3) Anonymous donation of £30,000 for new Infirmary Bradford & Leeds wireless relay station opened  (8/7) Holiday home for mothers and children opened at Grassington (24/5)	Lord Mayor - JH Palin Market Street station became Forster Square (2/6) Knights of St Columba's Bradford Council formed Bradford City 18 (D2) - Avenue 5 (D3) - Northern 26 (RL)
National	British Empire Exhibtion, Wembley	Goal could be scored direct from a corner kick
International	J Edgar Hoover appointed as head of the FBI  Petrograd renamed as Leningrad (26/1)	Lenin died (21/1) Adolf Hitler jailed for treason (1/4)
Sport	FA - Newcastle United (Aston Villa) RLCC - Wigan (Oldham) Olympic Games (8th) - Paris	1st - Huddersfield (Cardiff City) RL - Wigan (Batley) RL - Batley (Wigan) - playoffs
Firsts	IBM (was Computing- Tabulating-Recording Co) Winter Olympics - Chamonix, France	Ancient Monuments Society BBC broadcasts the Greenwich Time Signal (5/2)
Arts/Media	Rhapsody in Blue - George Gershwin Alice's Wonderland - Walt Disney cartoon (1st)	A Passage to India - EM Forster
Products	Newcastle Brown Ale	Anchor butter - prepacked

1875 - 1899

Bradford Timeline

1925 - 1949