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Bradford is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, 8.6 miles (14 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Wakefield.
Emmerdale history[]
- November 1914 - Dot Dingle worked in a factory in Bradford to help out the soldiers.
- 2nd December 1921 - Henry Wilks was born in Bradford.
- 23rd October 1972 - Peggy Skilbeck discovers she is pregnant and asks her husband, Matt, to apply for a job in Bradford hoping they can move away from the farm to the city.
- 6th November 1972 - Matt gets an interview with the factory in Bradford, but he shares his concerns with Peggy of living in the city.
- 13th November 1972 - Matt tells Peggy he won't be going to the interview in Bradford now Joe's been involved in an accident. She isn't pleased.
- 14th November 1972 - Matt goes for his interview in Bradford and is not impressed with factory work.
- 21st November 1972 - Jack Sugden and Matt Skilbeck go to Bradford and buy a landrover for the farm.
- 23rd April 1973 - Henry Wilks visits Buckley Builders in Bradford to organise the building of the pig unit.
- 8th January 1973 - Matt, Peggy and Annie prepare to leave for Bradford to pick up a washing machine. Peggy and Annie want to stay a bit longer to make a night of it, but Matt is forced to tell them he can't as he's meant to be seeing Henry Wilks tonight about a manager's job at Jameson's Farm.
- 24th April 1973 - David Reece finds a piece of pottery. Gwen Russell inspects it back at the millhouse, she thinks it's part of a Bronze Age beaker. Penny Golightly arrives at Emmerdale Farm and asks to use the telephone to ring Bradford University for advice on the piece of pottery. They're invited to the university and set off for Bradford.
- 2nd July 1973 - Simon Trent shares the news that he has been offered a job with the research team of a pharmaceutical firm near Bradford to treat asthma and bronchitis.
- 19th November 1973 - Henry Wilks finds a gold sovereign in his collection and asks Sam Pearson if he has a licence for it. He claims he knew a man who got fined in Bradford for possessing one without a licence.
- 14th January 1974 - Henry arrives back from London after spending the night in a hotel in Bradford.
- 17th June 1974 - Joe and Christine go drinking in Bradford, and come back with interesting gossip about Ethel.
- 16th July 1974 - Diana Prescott moves to Bradford with her husband Franklin.
- 1976 - 1997 - Esholt was used for the village scenes of Emmerdale. It is a small village in the Metropolitan District of Bradford.
- October 1997 - Peggy Skilbeck discovers she is pregnant and asks her husband, Matt, to apply for a job in Bradford hoping they can move away from the farm to the city.
- November 1997 - Matt goes for an interview for a factory job in Bradford and fails to get it.
- 9th January 1991 - Charity Dingle spent her 14th birthday in a hostel in Bradford.
- 29th January 1974 - Annie receives news that the Prescott family from Bradford are moving into Beryl Crossthwaite's cottage.
- 29th April 1974 - Joe invites Matt along to Bradford for dinner with him and Christine when they go next week, telling him he can bring Alison. Matt is keen to avoid it.
- 16th August 2001 - Latisha Daggert goes to a party in Bradford.
- 18th October 2001 - Latisha Daggert makes plans to move to Bradford to be with Paul Cooke.
- 2011 - Roz Fielding leaves Emmerdale for a job at a textile factory in Bradford.
- 16th May 2012 - Megan is tempted when Declan suggests going to see Robbie in Bradford. They sit in the car on Robbie's street and Megan panics when they see him walk past. Megan then tells Declan that she wants to leave. Later at Home Farm, Megan is confused about her feelings as she overhears Declan and Katie discussing the situation. That evening, she posts a letter to her son through his door.
- 10th April 2018 - Charity Dingle tells Vanessa Woodfield that her dad threw her out of the house, and after working her way around family members, she spent her fourteenth birthday in a hostel in Bradford.
Real world[]
- 11th August 1946 - Duncan Preston (who played Doug Potts from April 2007 to February 2011 and again from September 2014 to February 2020) was born in Bradford.
- 7th September 1953 - John Middleton (who played Ashley Thomas from 1996 to 2017) was born in Bradford.
- 10th January 1962 - Claire King (who played Kim Tate from 1989 to 1999, and 2018 to present) was born in Bradford.
- 31st October 1975 - James Thornton (who played John Barton from 2009 until 2012) was born in Bradford.
- 30th August 1976 - Sarah-Jane Potts (who played Leanne Grounding in November and December 2008) was born in Bradford.
- 31st July 1978 - Sally Walsh (who played Lyn Hutchinson from 1997 until 2000) was born in Bradford.
- 20th April 1979 - Nicky Evans (who played Roy Glover from 1994 to 2000) was born in Bradford.
- 27th March 1987 - Amy Walsh (who has played Tracy Metcalfe since 2014) was born in Bradford.
- 24th October 1981 - Natalie Anderson (who played Alicia Metcalfe from 2010 to 2015) was born in Bradford.
- 15th October 1984 - Christopher Smith (who played Robert Sugden from 1989 - 2001) was born in Bradford.
- 15th August 1985 - Verity Rushworth (who played Donna Windsor from 1998 to 2009, and again in 2014) was born in Bradford.
- 2nd August 1993 - Hannah Midgley (who played Victoria Sugden from 1997 to 2006) was born in Bradford.
- Arthur Pentelow (who played Henry Wilks from 1972 until 1991) was a member of the Bradford Civic Playhouse Theatre School.
- Abigail Uttley (who played Shannon in May 2013 and Jade in July 2022) was born in Bradford.