The Market Bradford Couldn't Save | Kirkgate Market 1872–1973

Bradford Kirkgate Market history: the Victorian covered market hall demolished in 1973 despite petitions to save it. What was really lost? Built in 1872 by Lockwood and Mawson, the architects of Bradford's Wool Exchange and Town Hall, Kirkgate Market was the covered heart of a wool city. A century later it was demolished for a new shopping centre, even as people signed petitions and protested to save it. We look at why the council chose redevelopment, what the new centre offered, and why Bradford still remembers the old market. Under the Glass Roof Britain tells the stories of Britain's Victorian and Edwardian covered markets, market halls and arcades, 1850–1980, through archive photographs, maps and records. AI reconstructions are clearly labelled on screen. Subscribe for new market hall documentaries. #BritishHistory #Bradford #VictorianBritain