Bradford Heritage Connection CIC

30/04/2026

Never seen this in stone before and also love the new Heritage signs 💗💗💗

29/04/2026

Bradford Heritage Festival 2026 is going to be a belter ...7 days, over 50 events and activities taking place across the district. With a bigger programme come bigger costs and it would be amazing of you could support this years programme through this Go Fund Me... then pf course come and enjoy the Festival where almost all of the activities and programmes are free 💗💗💗

Please donate and even more important please share ...your support is so so appreciated 👏

Hi I'm Vicky and last year with a team of amazing partners delivered the first e… Vicky Clifton needs your support for Deliver Bradford Heritage Festival 2026

27/04/2026

So excited to announce the launch of a brand new website for Bradford Heritage Connection ...

Go have a peek and keep going back as I upload all of the amazing Bradford Heritage Festival activities during the rest of this week 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Bradford Heritage Connection CIC

09/04/2026

New tour from the wonderful Undercliffe Cemetery

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If disaster didn’t get you, poverty and disease would!

17/12/2025

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132 years ago today, The Brontë Society was founded. The Mayor of Bradford, Alderman Jonas Whitley circulated the following notice dated 11 December 1893:
'I have been waited upon by a Deputation to ask if I would call a Meeting of admirers of Brontë literature in the West Riding, to consider the advisability of forming a Brontë Society and Museum.
Heartily concurring with the proposal, I have pleasure in inviting you and your friends to a Meeting to be held in the Town Hall, Bradford, on Saturday, December 16th at 3 p.m.'
More than 50 people attended the Meeting, at which the Rev. W.H. Keeling, Headmaster of Bradford Grammar School, presided, and many encouraging letters and messages were read, including one from Charlotte's publisher George Smith.
It was resolved:
THAT a Brontë Society be and is hereby formed and that the object of such Society be, amongst other things, to establish a Museum to contain not only drawings, manuscripts, paintings and other personal relics of the Brontë Family, but all editions of their works, the writings of others upon those works or upon any member of the family, together with photographs of places or premises with which the family was associated.

We'd like to think that the founders of the Society would be delighted that we continue to campaign to save Brontë treasures for the nation and that we now hold the largest variety of original Brontë items in the world.

On the steps you see below, we now welcome thousands of visitors of all ages from far and wide. We're looking forward to welcoming many more in 2026!

10/10/2025

An opportunity to.work at the historic Bradford Mechanics Institute 💗💗

09/10/2025

Bradford Heritage Connection CIC is delivering two incredible arts based workshops based on pur industrial Heritage on 30th October as part of rhe Sendiverse Festival run by The Leap, aimed as families with SEND children 💗💗💗

Our events are circled below but you can find the full programme here https://www.the-leap.org.uk/sendiverse-find-activities
(please do share and spread the word)💗💗

07/10/2025

Ilkley has the first official blue plaque (Historic England) outside of London...it celebrates Daphne Steele who was the first NHS black Matron. You will see many blue plaque around and these are often managed by allocated Civic Society but not many Historic Englamd ones around 💗

27/09/2025

Looks amazing and remember there are also stunning engines and carriages (and free.parking) at Ingrow Station with Vintage Carriage Trust, Bahamas Locomotive and of course the beautiful Worth Valley Railway. Deffo a day out on our doorstep 💗💗

26/09/2025

Wonderful 💗💗💗

Our town will be filled with classic passenger vehicles on 12th October this year, with the opportunity to take a ride...