Eating - Drinking in Bradford. Shopping in Bradford. Bradford outdoors. Bradford Heritage. Bradford Culture. Bradford Picture Gallery. One of Bradford's most popular visitor attractions set in the magnificent, Green Flag-awarded grounds of Lister Park. Knight, had been appointed to deal with all such matters and a great deal of his correspondence survives. One of the oddest requests for spaces was from a palmist. After the exhibition it was dismantled and rebuilt in a London Roman Catholic Church.
Choirs from Bradford schools, some with as many as four hundred singers, also made their voices heard. Other forms of entertainment included conjuring and 'animated pictures'. Local pride and good playing were upheld by the Black Dyke Mills Band, who were listed with 'the best'.
Other bands played on Saturday mornings, and there was a contest for local bands in June. A Model Hospital was built to demonstrate nursing skills and this also contained a nursery, where visitors could leave their charges. Special interest was aroused by a Baby Incubator, which was used to demonstrate how the lives of premature babies could be saved by the latest scientific methods, a very important innovation in days of high infant mortality.
Among the already existing amenities was the lake, created soon after the park was purchased in from Samuel Cunliffe Lister, as part of a scheme to provide work for the unemployed.
It was now enhanced by a rustic bridge which greatly shortened distances. At busy times a policeman was placed at each end to control the traffic.
They travelled by train from Arthington to Bradford, where they were greeted by huge crowds who lined the route to Lister Park. At Cartwright Hall they were welcomed by the Mayor, after which the Prince unveiled a tablet on the right of the entrance stairs and declared open the Art and Industrial Exhibitions. The Princess then opened the Exhibition buildings with a golden key. The visit ended with a banquet at St George's Hall.
Two days later the Prince and Princess returned to pay a private visit to Lister's Mill. An official report was prepared by the business manager, Mr Knight, for presentation to the Exhibition Committee and printed for public circulation. The weather was also remarkable: May 4th was a fine day, for which the organisers of the royal procession, together with those who had festooned the long route, must have given heartfelt thanks.
Mr Knight must have been gratified, too, by an attendance of 29, The Exhibition lasted all summer and into the autumn, closing on 29 October. By this means visitors were attracted from Morecambe and other Lancashire towns as well as from all parts of Yorkshire and further afield.
On 20 July the millionth visitor, a farmer from the Dales, was presented with a medallion, and the two-millionth visitor, Thomas Lee of Otley Road, received a gold watch and chain. The most popular days were Wednesday and Saturday, with a record attendance of 64, on the last day. The Exhibition was closed on Sundays. This does not seem much reward for all the effort made but expenses were heavy, and in view of all the hazards, any profit must have been received with relief.
Half the money went to the Libraries, Museums and Art Galleries Fund, chiefly towards the cost of buying a permanent art collection, and half to the Gas Company, which had made up the deficit on the original estimates. There is little evidence to show that the Industrial Exhibition brought more business to Bradford, but short-term benefits must have accrued.
The car-a-minute service along Manningham Lane increased the revenue of the Tramways Department and railway excursions were well patronised. There was work for many hands in the park itself, and shops, restaurants and public houses could not have failed to increase their turnover. It was, as the advertisement in the Official Programme said, 'First Class, fully licensed and lighted throughout by electricity', with reading, smoking and billiard rooms.
The Exhibition Manager's Report and accounts in the Press all pay far more attention to the sideshows and entertainments which according to the stated aims of the Exhibition were peripheral than to what may be called 'serious things'. The evidence from similar exhibitions, however, showed that profits could only be expected from popular entertainments like those at Bradford, many of which were striking and original.
Accurate records of attendances and entrance charges were kept and these show that the entertainments attracted many visitors. The main attraction was certainly the Somali village, although this showpiece was only engaged when the visit of an Ashanti village, which had appeared at other exhibitions, was cancelled by its managers at short notice.
There were about a hundred Somalis, with their chief, and they included, according to the Yorkshire Daily Observer , 'remarkably beautiful girls'. They arrived before the Exhibition opened, built their own huts and lived in them in the public gaze until the end, giving throughout this time daily demonstrations of dancing, spear throwing and arrow shooting. The official report says, 'they maintained their attractive character throughout, and under the trying conditions of the Yorkshire climate behaved in a most creditable manner'.
The 'villagers', who came on from Marseilles, were paying their first visit to England, where they spent much of their time huddled round oil stoves. In August one of their huts was destroyed by fire, and in September one of the women died and was buried in Scholemoor Cemetery. There were, of course, less solemn moments, when the Somali children defeated a ladies' cricket team, for instance, and when "On 13th September a daughter was born to the head of the Somalis, the Sultan Ali and his wife, Fatima, She was called Hadija Yorkshire and in honour of the occasion a salute of 17 guns was fired from 'Port Arthur' by Lieutenant Lot Morgan.
The Jackdaw displayed its odd sense of humour when, in an earlier notice about the confinement, it said, 'Owing to the delicate state of health of the Sultana Fatima … The Bombardment of Port Arthur will be suppressed'. The next most popular attraction was the Water Chute from Canada, which had also been a feature of the Wolverhampton Exhibition in It was built on the edge of the lake, and under its structure there were twenty small shops representing Old Bradford, where souvenirs could be obtained.
An unusual show was the Palace of Illusions, which had been seen at other exhibitions, including the Paris Exhibition of It consisted of "a many-sided chamber with mirrored walls and Gothic arches stretching on either hand, apparently for miles. The lights would dim, and then suddenly there would be simultaneous illumination of brilliant electric lights on each pillar, which would give the illusion of thousands of lights.
Then would follow a mystifying dance by a beautiful lady artiste, which, reflected in hundreds of mirrors, would give the impression of a large ballet. There was also a Crystal Maze caused by distorting mirrors, a Gravity Railway and The Gigantic Glittering Thimble, 9 feet 6 inches high, 'the world's largest', made by Christopher Buckton of Lightcliffe, which all were urged to see, on Stand It was intended to have a captive balloon, giving those brave members of the public who ascended a bird's eye view of Bradford.
Unfortunately, rain and strong winds limited the appeal of this attraction and in the end the discouraged 'aeronaut', Mr Bramhall, had to be content with making one ascent each week. Cartwright Hall is now open. Situated in the original Refreshment Room of Cartwright Hall Art Gallery , it is the perfect place to relax, get a good coffee and perhaps treat yourself to a deliciously tempting home baked cake or snack. Cartwright Hall Art Gallery is one of the U.
K's leading regional art galleries. A small fragment in the extreme north-west remained as part of Rosse Estate and Heaton Reservoir was constructed next to this, across from the Heaton end of North Park Road, in The two images of Manningham Hall look very different but the above could have evolved into the first image.
This does seem to be correct. There is a press notice of his wife giving birth at Calverley House in , and Calverley House being available to let in How had he acquired the house and estate? John Lister was reputed to be the first man to spin worsted yarn in Bradford mechanically. Ellis Cunliffe built several textile mills including Red Beck Mill, Shipley which he worked himself, and he lived initially at Calverley House.
Ruth was the heir of her uncle Samuel Lister who lived at, and may have created, Manningham Hall before dying in In default of male heirs Ruth obtained his property but sadly she died young after only two years of marriage, thereafter her husband obtained Manningham Hall and its estate. He eventually married for a third time. Cudworth I assume following John James attributes this to a man called John Lister who married Phoebe in One of his sons was Thomas Lister, vicar of Ilkley until he died in , and another was John Lister of Manningham, who died in Nor do I yet know why he did not live at Manningham Hall between his marriage to Ruth, in , and If Samuel Cunliffe had left a widow she probably remained resident for some years.
Possibly after that Ellis Cunliffe Lister was waiting for improvements to be completed. The final confusion arises from a family historian who claims that Samuel and Mary actually had a son, but I think this view is mistaken. Be that as it may the crucial figure in this whole story is this Samuel Lister who is considered to be the man who started the change from farm and farmhouse to estate and hall around in the last quarter of the 18 th century.
Samuel Lister lived on the estate and is widely believed to have demolished an old Manningham Hall. The new hall was probably constructed in stages and may not have reached its final form until shortly before its demolition. The English Heritage listing document states that Manningham Hall replaced a building a little distance to the north-west of Cartwright Hall in the 18 th or early 19 th century. The Ordnance Survey map shows the art gallery and museum completed and the park itself in very much its modern form.
The large boating lake had been created to provide work for the unemployed and was never a natural feature. Substantial villa development has taken place around the park and nearby are rows of terraced housing. The area we think of as the park was bisected by Jumble Lane. I think you must have approached the Hall up a carriage drive extending from a lodge near from the modern Oak Lane, Manningham Lane junction. It is clear from the projecting door and windows seen in the photograph that the front of the building faced east, looking over the Clock House Estate, and the Bradford Beck and Canal, to the airy uplands of Bolton.
To the north-west is an ornamental deer park.
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