- 1. Conjectural map of Bradford in 1800.

2. Bulls Head Inn. Bottom of Kirkgate. Start of the 1825 Bishop Blaise procession.

3. George Walker print of a Bishop Blaise procession. Possibly Bradford 1811.

4. Bradford’s old Manor Hall. Built 1705.

5. Kirkgate Market. Built in the 1870’s after the Manor Hall was knocked down.

6. Christ Church. Built 1815 before Darley St was built.

7. Christ Church from what became Rawson Square.

7ii. Woolcombers from the Lister statue in Lister Park.

8. Bradford Canal basin.

9. St Peter’s. Church Steps, Broadstones and the corner of Bradford Grammar School.

10. Woolsacks on St Peter’s tower during a siege of Bradford.

11. Paper Hall. Oldest domestic build in Bradford’s centre. Site of the first mechanical spinning frames here, set up by Richard Fawcett, who headed the Bishop Blaise procession.

12. Bradford’s first Dispensary, set up to relieve distr stress during the 23 week woolcombers and handloom weavers strike in 1825. Bradford’s first ever public health service and the direct ancestor of the BRI.
13′ Picture of ‘The Holme’. Bradford’s first steam powered mill and site of the place where a roast ox and around a hundred gallon of punch were consumed at the 1825 processions lunch break.

14 Sun Inn. Where the 1825 Bishop Blaise procession was dismissed.

15. Blaise ballad

16. Blaise prom from 1825 and 2019.

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