", Fletcher subsequently published a book in 2015, Fifty-Six: The Story of the Bradford Fire which revealed a history of fires at businesses owned by the Bradford City chairman Stafford Heginbotham. It was during this treatment that Sharpe began to develop the Bradford Sling, which applies even pressure across sensitive areas. He was actually one of the detectives involved in one of the gravest miscarriages of justices in the country, the murder of Carol Wilkinson in Bradford, where someone was locked up for 20 years for a murder he didn't commit.". He started to walk home, unsure of what had happened to his father. The stand had no perimeter fencing to keep fans from accessing the pitch, thus averting an instance of crush asphyxia as in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster. "I parked my van outside because I started making enough money painting as I was in construction. The 4-alarm fire started in a one-story lumber storage building and spread to an adjacent building. ", "If the inquiry is opened again, we will await to see what evidence there is to prove is wasn't an accident," he says. "I got pushed down to the front and I remember looking around and suddenly this smouldering, small fire had taken over virtually half a block and was starting to hit the roof. We, and the world, need Burning Man and Black Rock City more than ever. It was the brainchild of Bradford City fan Lloyd Spencer with all profits going to the Bradford Royal Infirmary Burns Unit. Bradford City had just won the Third Division Championship and a record number of spectators over 11,000 had turned out to see the club presented with its first piece of league silverware in 56 years. His father Tony went back the following day and said: "I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel guilty that I had got out when so many hadn't." Geoffrey Mitchell said: "There was panic as fans stampeded to an exit which was padlocked. His most recent painting is a powerful image two fans in Bradford and Lincoln City kits, surrounded by 54 other figures. I ran to the stand and tried to help people escape. It took the firemen four minutes to arrive at the ground but the speed of the fire was such that the blaze also took only four minutes to grip the entire stand. Below the seats were rows of litter which had piled up throughout the season, said witnesses. The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265. At 3.40pm, television commentator John Helm remarked upon a small fire in the main stand in less than four minutes, with the windy conditions, the fire had engulfed the whole stand, trapping some people in their seats. Football architect Archibald Leitch was commissioned to carry out the work. After Hillsborough, the Bradford City FC stadium fire was the second worst sporting tragedy in England, leaving 56 dead and at least 265 injured. I'd seen the film on the Saturday but the bleakness of the stadium burnt out, and the gloom that afflicted everybody, was dreadful. People who had escaped the fire then tried to assist their fellow supporters. Website by, Bradford City FC stadium fire | 11th May 1985, Fundraising for firefighters and their families. He had to undergo counselling and was unable to go to another game for several years.
However, he also warned the club of a build-up of litter beneath the stand because of a gap between the seats. "It's therapeutic and I've met so many people through doing this." A call was made on a police radio to the police operations room in Bradford and relayed to the fire brigade at 3.43 pm. We were sat in our football kit, we didn't know what to do. They were immediately promoted back to the Football League in 1988, and survived for 23 years before being relegated again in 2011. Bradford City players line up to observe a minutes silence for the 25th anniversary of the 1985 Bradford stadium fire prior to the Coca Cola League. , During the case, Sir Joseph Cantley stated that: "It is only right that I should say that I think it would be unfair to conclude that Heginbotham, Tordoff, the Board of Directors, or any of them, were intentionally and callously indifferent to the safety of spectators using the stand. When the game began there was no way out for them, except by going on to the pitch.
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