There has been talk for some years of re-siting the statue of Sir Titus Salt to Saltaire from its current place in Lister Park.

Bradford doesn't have a particularly good record of looking after and honouring its historical figures. Salt's statue is tucked away in the park when once it had pride of place outside City Hall.

In many ways it would be more appropriate for it to be in Saltaire, the village which he created and to whom he gave his name, where many thousands more people would see it. Saltaire would certainly be preferable to its current site.

But maybe we should look beyond Salt and examine ways of better displaying the monuments to the city's most illustrious figures.

Perhaps Bradford should pay more heed to its past glories and look at bringing together some of its statues which are spread across the city; it should even consider creating new ones.

Maybe a ring of statues surrounding Centenary Square would make an impressive sight. Salt, together with author JB Priestley, composer Frederick Delius, Richard Oastler, who campaigned on behalf of factory children, and educationalist and MP W E Forster could take their places in the city centre.

It would be a striking and fitting way to honour the city's place in history at the end of the millennium.

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