Join local historian Derek Barker and learn about the often-ignored local industry and building material of brickmaking and bricks. In this talk, the origin and use of bricks and fire bricks will be discussed, together with the evidence available to reconstruct a once flourishing and important local industry of brickworks in Bradford.
Free. Limited spaces.
Booking required – reserve your space at the reception desk, by calling Bradford Industrial Museum on 01274 435900, or by emailing industrial.museum@bradford.gov.uk
This event has been organised to complement our new exhibition at the Bradford Industrial Museum ‘We Built this city’:150 Years of the Bradford Society of Architects and Surveyors
Monday: Closed
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 4pm
Saturday – Sunday: 11am – 4pm
Signposted from Bradford Ring Road and Harrogate Road (A658). Bus 645 from Market Street or Hall Ings. All buses stop at Moorside Road. On the museum site there is free car parking and disabled car parking.
From Bradford City Centre, the 660 bus departs from Drake Street stop D1, (alight at Moorside Road), and the 645 departs from Hall Ings stop H11, (alight at Harrogate Road then an approx 10 min walk).
For help in planning your journey by public transport, please visit www.wymetro.com
17 December 2025 10:30 am – 17 December 2025 12:30 pm
2 October 2024 – 8 December 2024
23 November 2024 10:00 am – 24 November 2024 4:00 pm
21 June 2025 – 14 September 2025
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