This annual event is designed to reward unsung heroes across the Bradford District who strive to make a difference in their local communities. In 2019 a Special Recognition Award was made to the Bradford WW1 Group for their programme of displays and talks given to community groups and school as part of their Sharing Remembrance project.
Commemorating men of the Indian Army with members of the Muslim community and Lonsdale Belt winner, Amir Khan.
Students at Bradford College discuss the global scope of the war and respond to the WW1 Group slide presentation, We Will Remember Them, which features the Commonwealth Contribution in WW1.
In July 2018, we supported 11 primary schools in the Parish of St Paul’s Manningham that contributed to an Armistice Exhibition. There were an estimated 800 visitors over the weekend.
One school created seats for their reflection garden commemorating Indian soldiers who died on the same day as men from Manningham.
Another school produced a recruitment poster.
The exhibition panels were shown in the Sikh Temple on Leeds Road, Bradford, to the women’s group at the Bangladeshi Centre in Manningham, Ryan Street Muslim Day Centre and for students at Bradford College.
Sikh women’s group seeking information about the displays.
At the invitation of the Bishop of Bradford, the exhibition was on display in the Cathedral for the whole of July 2016. It formed the backdrop for the Civic Service Commemorating the Battle of the Somme which was held in the Cathedral at 3pm on Saturday 9th July 2016. A significant feature of the exhibition was a Roll Call of the men from Bradford who died during the Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916. Thanks to the ingenuity of Cathedral staff, the names were projected in an ever-rolling stream onto the flagstones in the north aisle.
Throughout July 2016 the WW1 Group staged the ‘Threads of War’ exhibition in the Mechanics’ Institute Library. Opened by the Lord Mayor on Saturday 2 July, the display comprised creative textiles in a range of styles reflecting aspects of the Great War. The exhibition was curated by Annie Parkinson of the East Riding Commemorative Quilts Group and the Bradford Libraries reading rug was also available for visitors to test their rag-rug skills!
A creative rug being made.