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Bradford

Bradford was a city in Yorkshire, England.

Winifred Gillyflower described Bradford as "that Babylon for the Moderns, with its crystal light and its glitter, all aswarm with the wretched ruins of humanity". She felt it represented, in 1893, all that was wrong with then-modern English society. (TV: The Crimson Horror [+]Mark Gatiss, Doctor Who series 7 (BBC One, 2013).)

In the 1980s the Eighth Doctor played a game of Super Mario Bros in a pub in the city. (PROSE: Halflife [+]Mark Michalowski, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).) Ted Taylor came from Bradford. (AUDIO: Iris at the Oche [+]Mark Wright, Iris Wildthyme (Big Finish Productions, 2013).) It became affected by miners' strike action who created a picket line. (AUDIO: We Are The Daleks [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

It became the centre of racial tension during the 2000s during the terrorist attacks, with news media reporting that areas of the city had become "no go" areas for white people. (AUDIO: The Longest Night [+]Joseph Lidster, UNIT (Big Finish Productions, 2005).)

In the early 22nd century, Ming described her ethnicity as ninth generation Bradford Cantonese. (PROSE: Transit [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).)

Behind the scenes[]

Actors Mary Tamm, Asif Khan, Simon Rouse and Steve Morley were all born in Bradford.

More specifically, Bradford is located in West Yorkshire.

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