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    The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England is a grade I-listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The grandeur...
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    with wool imported in vast quantities for the manufacture of worsted cloth in which Bradford specialised, and the town soon became known as the wool capital...
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  • of Bradford Exchange" Manchester Times, Saturday 16 March 1867 p.2 col.6: Opening of the Bradford Exchange See File:Stone heads on the Wool Exchange, Bank...
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    materials, such as mineral wool and glass wool, that have some properties similar to animal wool. As an animal fiber, wool consists of protein together...
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  • Wool City". Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 19 December 2018. Cudworth, William (1888). Worstedopolis: A Sketch History of the Town and Trade of Bradford,...
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    palace's architecture in the United Kingdom, for example: the Wool Exchange, Bradford, the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem, the Scottish National Portrait...
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    Site. Central Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. The area's access...
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  • Amsterdam, designed by Dutch architect Hendrick Petrus Berlage Wool Exchange, Bradford High Street, Birmingham, formerly Times Furniture Company Dolphin...
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    halls still in use in the United Kingdom. German Jewish wool merchants who had moved to Bradford because of its textile industry, partly financed the building...
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    Tamworth town centre. George Square, Glasgow. Peel Park, Bradford. Wool Exchange, Bradford. Peel Centre, Hendon Police College, Hendon. Gawsworth Old...
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    now back in place. Inside the Bradford Wool Exchange, West Yorkshire, there is a statue of Cobden. Outside the Wool Exchange, between the ground floor arches...
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    Bradford Exchange railway station served the city of Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1850 to 1973, before being replaced by a smaller...
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  • Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The team competes in League Two, the fourth...
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    The University of Bradford is a public research university located in the city of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. A plate glass university, it received...
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    William Mawson (category Architects from Bradford)
    designed many prominent buildings in Bradford including Bradford City Hall in open competition and the Wool Exchange also in open competition. The City...
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    Grade-II-listed former wool warehouse in Little Germany. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Little Germany, Bradford. Forster Square, Bradford Leach, Peter...
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    This is a list of the wool, cotton and other textile mills in Bradford, the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Bradford in West Yorkshire,...
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    John Bradford Moore (1855–1926) was a trader who established a post at Crystal, New Mexico, at the western end of the Narbona Pass, where he developed...
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    borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies 6 miles (9.7 km) to the west of the city centre of Bradford, and together with neighbouring...
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    Bradford City Hall Bradford Wool Exchange The interior, Bradford Wool Exchange Detail St. George's Hall, Bradford Rear, St. George's Hall, Bradford Interior...
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  • located between Market Street and Broadway, Bradford, England and stood opposite the Wool Exchange. The Bradford Beck ran beneath. The Swan Arcade was designed...
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  • commenced. 1867 – Wool Exchange building constructed. 1868 – Bradford Daily Telegraph newspaper begins publication. 1871 Bradford Free Library established...
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  • parish in the City of Bradford metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England, situated 3 miles (4.8 km) to the west of Bradford city centre. It is listed...
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    many local chapels. The figures on the frieze represent the wool trade between Bradford and the world, besides architecture and the arts. Currently (2016)...
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    Parade, known as the University of Bradford Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is an all-seater football stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Built...
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    of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Located on the River Aire and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, Shipley is directly north of the city of Bradford. The...
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    the Leeds, Bradford and Halifax Junction Railway, which had previously used Bradford Adolphus Street, built a link to the tracks into Exchange station to...
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    was said that on the Bradford Wool Exchange it was possible to hear every European language on any morning of the week. The Bradford Observer happily declared...
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    Saltaire (category Geography of the City of Bradford)
    1871 to allow his workers to live in better conditions than the slums of Bradford. The mill ceased production in 1986, and was converted into a multifunctional...
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    Bradford and Kirklees in West Yorkshire, England. It is located midway between the town of Cleckheaton in Kirklees and the suburb of Wyke in Bradford...
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