Bradford City and Bradford Bulls attract around 40,000 people between them to each home game but their influence spreads far beyond the stadiums they inhabit. We have a huge impact at all levels. Just as ingrained in Bradford culture are the working men's clubs spread throughout the district which have been pumping out cheap ale and catchy tunes for decades. The Idle club has been around since the 1920s and it can still draw in the big crowds. It gets a bit quiet during the week but at the weekends it's packed.
Women can now be full members and that's bolstered numbers.
We're as much a part of Bradford culture as we have ever been. 21st century-style, the pub developments in the West End illustrate how one corner of the city has been transformed and enlivened thanks to new investment. Bradford Arts Forum has been trying to bring culture to the forefront of life in the district for the past two years. One of its main projects surrounds the use of Provincial House in Centenary Square which the organisation wants redeveloped as an arts centre. Chairman Allan Brack said Bradford's people were its cultural strengths and needed to be consulted more during the bid for city of culture.