Bradford (GB)

Block of 24 from Plate 152 showing entire rows C and D, used in Bradford with 107 type 1844 cancel.

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Bradford is in the Metropolitan Borough of the City of Bradford in West Yorkshire, England, in the foothills of the Pennines 8.6 miles (14 km) west of Leeds, and 16 miles (26 km) northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897.
Following local government reform in 1974, city status was bestowed upon the wider metropolitan borough. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Bradford rose to prominence during the 19th century as an international centre of textile manufacture, particularly wool. It was a boomtown of the Industrial Revolution, and amongst the earliest industrialised settlements, rapidly becoming the "wool capital of the world".
The area's access to a supply of coal, iron ore and soft water facilitated the growth of Bradford's manufacturing base, which, as textile manufacture grew, led to an explosion in population and was a stimulus to civic investment; Bradford has a large amount of listed Victorian architecture including the grand Italianate City Hall.

Postmarks

BRADFORD 2D REGISTERED 2D 1901

Piece with Bradford sideways duplex cancel 26 Oct 1857, GB 1d Red Die II Plate 43

BRADFORD

Bradford to Halifax 18 Dec 1839 prepaid with red Fourpenny Uniform Rate manuscript "4" with oval "Paid at Bradford" in blue

Bradford to South Cave 20 Mar 1840 with "Paid One Penny" Uniform Penny Postage in circle with side-reversed "N"

backside with green date postmark Bradford

Bradford to Pontefract 19 Nov 1840 with double framed "Paid 1D" (1840 - 1847)

backside with date postmark Bradford

Sub-Offices

Idle

This office lies North of the city of Bradford

Idle Penny Post on cover to Bradford cancelled on arrival in Bradford with 107 numeral