Bradford- lost for words
Discussion
Prior to emigrating with my job, I lived in Baildon - essentially a north-eastern suburb of Bradford.
Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
Matt Harper said:
Prior to emigrating with my job, I lived in Baildon - essentially a north-eastern suburb of Bradford.
Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
I spent a week working in Moorley and most of the time it was like your picture, and then I went to the White Rose shopping centre.Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
tholes.Have visited Bingley several times which is lovely but the drive through Bradford is an eye opener
Just scruffy, rubbish strewn everywhere. Every time I've been it does seem prodominately Asian and I always wonder what some of the locals family's in Asia think of the UK when they have visited family in Bradford
Just scruffy, rubbish strewn everywhere. Every time I've been it does seem prodominately Asian and I always wonder what some of the locals family's in Asia think of the UK when they have visited family in Bradford
Matt Harper said:
Prior to emigrating with my job, I lived in Baildon - essentially a north-eastern suburb of Bradford.
Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
Just like the OP said - there's 80% - 90% brown in that photo!Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
Soir said:
Have visited Bingley several times which is lovely but the drive through Bradford is an eye opener
Just scruffy, rubbish strewn everywhere. Every time I've been it does seem prodominately Asian and I always wonder what some of the locals family's in Asia think of the UK when they have visited family in Bradford
Better than what they left behind, that's why they are here.Just scruffy, rubbish strewn everywhere. Every time I've been it does seem prodominately Asian and I always wonder what some of the locals family's in Asia think of the UK when they have visited family in Bradford
SAS Tom said:
skip_1 said:
I used to live in Bradford and it was no more Asian than many other old mill towns. Plenty of nice areas on the outskirts, but yes a city centre run down by neighbouring Leeds and White Rose Centre.
How can you blame Bradford being a dump on Leeds and 1 shopping centre?Bradford used to be a much bigger richer city than Leeds. Manufacturing decline coupled with the rise of a prosperous Leeds saw people and businesses abandon Bradford.
The city centre of Bradford has declined massively in the last fifteen years as residents prefer to shop in Leeds and at the White Rose Centre. This is witnessed by many of the major store chains pulling out of Bradford due to the desertion by shoppers. Seriously it can be eerily empty on a Saturday.
Edited by skip_1 on Saturday 30th August 20:40
Matt Harper said:
Prior to emigrating with my job, I lived in Baildon - essentially a north-eastern suburb of Bradford.
Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
Very nice. But give it another 20 years and you will probably see shanti towns strewn across the fields with the rates they are breeding at what with their multiple wives. All supported by the state. Channel 4 doing a show on the subject but not sure it's been pulled, supposedly due out late summer..Whilst I confess to avoiding venturing into the city unless I absolutely had to, it was actually quite agreeable - the pic below is Baildon Moor - the pic taken less than half a mile from where I lived.
http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/channel-4-...
Johnnytheboy said:
I assume the ethnicity stats take in a lot of outer suburbs, while the impression of a higher concentration of Asians in the inner city reflects local conditions.
Yes...Vaud said:
Bradford stats can also be "balanced" by places like (very white) Ilkley. Depends on if you are talking about the city or the council area.
It's confused in part by the fact that the Bradford council district also covers areas with LS (Leeds) postcodes...
How can I put this in a politically correct way? How what this allow to happen? I mean yes, sure, my very basic understanding is that asian people were needed in the mills in the 50s and 60s but jeeeeze! If every major UK city modelled itself on Bradford you'd literally feel like it wasn't the UK anymore.
It's such a sensitive subject- and the racism card is played a lot. It's not being racist, I just think of it another way. If a huge influx of white people descended on a city in Pakistan, how would they feel? Again, it wouldn't be multiculturalism would it? The few remaining would just feel bitter, I'm sure of it.
It's such a sensitive subject- and the racism card is played a lot. It's not being racist, I just think of it another way. If a huge influx of white people descended on a city in Pakistan, how would they feel? Again, it wouldn't be multiculturalism would it? The few remaining would just feel bitter, I'm sure of it.
wildoliver said:
It's no different to areas in Spain where the Brits have made it in to little England, has it improved the area?
Yet it's fine to take the P*** out of the fat bald tattoo covered white people for ruining an area, for gods sake don't say it about a racial minority though.
I disagree, you don't go to these Brit populated areas of Spain and find the Brits involved in:Yet it's fine to take the P*** out of the fat bald tattoo covered white people for ruining an area, for gods sake don't say it about a racial minority though.
Money laundering
Cash for crash schemes
Weed farms
Drugs sales
Paedophilia
Protection rackets
Listed Buildings mysteriously burned down
Street racing
Planning laws bypassed
If you live and/or work at ground level in Bradford you will have witnessed all of this.
People who think it doesn't go on on a regular basis have never lived at that level and just show the racism card out of the window of their ivory tower.
Edited by 226bhp on Sunday 31st August 08:13
226bhp said:
wildoliver said:
It's no different to areas in Spain where the Brits have made it in to little England, has it improved the area?
Yet it's fine to take the P*** out of the fat bald tattoo covered white people for ruining an area, for gods sake don't say it about a racial minority though.
I disagree, you don't go to these Brit populated areas of Spain and find the Brits involved in:Yet it's fine to take the P*** out of the fat bald tattoo covered white people for ruining an area, for gods sake don't say it about a racial minority though.
Money laundering
Cash for crash schemes
Weed farms
Drugs sales
Paedophilia
Protection rackets
Listed Buildings mysteriously burned down
Street racing
Planning laws bypassed
If you live and/or work at ground level in Bradford you will have witnessed all of this.
People who think it doesn't go on on a regular basis have never lived at that level and just show the racism card out of the window of their ivory tower.
Edited by 226bhp on Sunday 31st August 08:13
Areas in Spain where the Brits take over in Spain or Portugal are invariably populated by retired people, even if some are fat and bald. Tats are really quite rare unless we are talking about holiday resorts, which of course are a completely different subject and not relevant to this thread in the slightest.
9mm said:
Areas in Spain where the Brits take over in Spain or Portugal are invariably populated by retired people, even if some are fat and bald. Tats are really quite rare unless we are talking about holiday resorts, which of course are a completely different subject and not relevant to this thread in the slightest.
Costa del Crime? I'd guess that most of Bradford's Asians were born here.
Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff