SIR – Being a local historian (Allerton village area) and a model maker of British and American horsedrawn transport, I feel qualified to take your leisure and lifestyle editor, Emma Clayton, to task over her article (T&A, December 14).
This concerns her coverage of the exhibition at the Industrial Museum, covering showmen who performed in Bradford.
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West did not appear in 1904 in Lister Park for the opening of Cartwright Hall, part of the Bradford Exhibition. He came to Bradford in 1903, on October 5 and 6, arriving from a week in Leeds.
Having visited the exhibition, there is no mention of 1904 and the Bradford Exhibition, but only the correct visit to the showground at the top of Leeds Road, Bradford, in 1903.
Michael McDermott, Yew Tree Crescent, Chellow Dene
Comments: Our rules
We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused.
Please report any comments that break our rules.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article