Today is the 35th anniversery of the Bradford City fire.
56 people died in an horrific fire, I can still remember the news coming through on the radio as we were making our way home from Maine Road.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-52615281
35 Years Ago Today
posted on 11/5/20
R.I.P.
Always got used in fire training courses at work. Horrific.
posted on 11/5/20
I think it gets lost/forgotten about because of Hillsborough but it was just, if not more horrific.
Time flies.
posted on 11/5/20
comment by Hector (U3606)
posted 1 minute ago
I think it gets lost/forgotten about because of Hillsborough but it was just, if not more horrific.
Time flies.
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That's incorrect!
It's just down to it being little Bradford.
I watched the BT documentary and it was disturbing.
posted on 11/5/20
City had just been promoted and I was on a packed bus singing and shouting with everyone else.
Someone with a radio (someone always had a radio back then) started telling everyone to shush, we assumed it would about United losing or something similar and it still took a few minutes for everyone to realise what had happened.
When I got home, my mum had the TV on and it's only then that I saw the full horror.
posted on 11/5/20
RIP to them, I always feel this tragedy is never given much remembrance in the media.
posted on 11/5/20
I remember watching grandstand getting live shots of this happening
posted on 11/5/20
I wasnt born yet.
Some of those who died were still sitting upright in their seats, covered by remnants of tarpaulin that had fallen from the roof
Facking hell