page_title: Bradford City Hall
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Bradford City Hall / History
caption_attribution_description: English: View of city of Bradford, Yorkshire, England, showing Bradford City Hall
context_page_description: Bradford City Hall is a 19th-century town hall in Centenary Square, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It is notable for its landmark bell/clock tower and is a Grade I listed building.
context_section_description: Before its relocation, between 1847 and 1873, the town hall had been the Fire Station House in Swain Street. In 1869, a new triangular site was purchased, and a competition held for a design to rival the town halls of Leeds and Halifax. The local firm of Lockwood and Mawson was chosen over the other 31 entries. It was built by John Ives & Son of Shipley and took three years to build at a cost of £100,000. It was opened by Matthew Thompson, the mayor, on 9 September 1873.
  It was first extended in 1909 to a design by Norman Shaw and executed by architect F.E.P. Edwards, with another council chamber, more committee rooms and a banqueting hall.
  On 14 March 1912 Winston Churchill gave a speech outside the hall in which he called for the people to "go forward together and put these grave matters to the proof". It was extended again with a new entrance and staircase in baroque marble by William Williamson in 1914.
  In 1965 the name was changed to City Hall to reflect Bradford's prominence, and the building was improved at a cost of £12,000. After the bells stopped in 1992 due to decay of the bell frame, they were repaired with National Lottery funds in 1997.
  In 2000, Barbara Jane Harrison was commemorated in a memorial display in the City Hall and in October 2006, the building was illuminated for Bradford Festival by artist Patrice Warrener. In 2007 the City Hall filled in for Manchester Crown Court for the duration of the trial of Tracy Barlow in Coronation Street.
  In December 2007 the City Hall turned the city's nine Christmas trees into woodchips as fuel for its new heating boilers. An access tunnel was dug from the roadway to install the boilers in early 2008.
caption: Tower and flagpole
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