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It is a simple account laid out for all to see. One supporter found his way on to the pitch despite burning from head to foot, but he later died in hospital. It has a black marble fascia on which the names and ages of those that died are inscribed in gold, and a black marble platform on which people can leave flowers and mementos. The play reflects that it had been "the Yorkshire way" not to make a fuss, to bear a loss and move on. Bradford City's coach Terry Yorath, whose family was in the stand, ran onto the pitch to help evacuate people. It only took four minutes for the entire stand to be engulfed in flames. Part of the Appeal funds were raised by a recording of "You'll Never Walk Alone" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical Carousel by The Crowd (including Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers, who had recorded the 1963 version that led to Liverpool adopting it as their motto and team song), which reached number 1 in the UK Singles chart. "Storage of paint implicated but no evidence of storage beneath the stand. , Most of the exits at the back were locked or shut, and there were no stewards present to open them, but seven were forced open or found open.

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The school hall, like the theatre, was still and noiseless as the children listened to this passionate and indefatigable woman, whose family home should be full of the sound of many grandchildren, by now, but who is instead still seeking what meagre consolations she can find from the wreckage of Bradford's forgotten tragedy. When the association football club was formed, the ground was changed very little and had no covered accommodation. "Yes you've already told us you were concerned," the inquiry's QC effectively says, before he moves the conversation along. The Bradford City stadium fire was still the worst sporting tragedy of its kind in England at the time.

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Bradford City stadium fire - WikiMili, The Free Although some attributed Lincoln City's sudden demise to the psychological effects of the fire on its players (together with the resignation of successful manager Colin Murphy shortly before the fire), it symbolised the wider crisis that the introduction of new safety legislation brought to Lincoln's Sincil Bank home. Nothing surprising in the construction of the stand to give this rate of fire growth," Woolley writes in an untitled script which appears to be his own notes from the first day of Popplewell's Inquiry. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. Or for a full-blown 91-day inquiry like the one which investigated the 1987 fire at London's King's Cross St Pancras Tube station, though Bradford claimed twice as many lives. He is quoted as saying: "I don't believe the statement of retired Detective Inspector Raymond Falconer at all. However, the responsibility of the Club is, in my view, very much the greater and I apportion responsibility between the two defendants as to two-thirds on the first defendant and one-third on the third (sic) defendant.

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The Independent Magazine's own investigations, at the National Archive at Kew, bear out the nagging suspicions Fletcher always had. Only now, in 56: The Story of the Bradford Fire (Bloomsbury, £16.99) has he completed a 15-year quest to challenge history's interpretation of why the fire broke out.

It was Fletcher's mother, Susan, who had always said that she did not believe the fire was an accident and who talked of the other blazes at businesses owned or linked to Stafford Heginbotham, the Bradford City chairman of the day. Brief Synopsis: On Saturday 11 th May 1985 during a televised third division football match between Bradford City and Lincoln City a fire started within block G, underneath the wooden seating area, within the main stand of the Bradford City Football ground at Valley Parade.

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Mathew Wildman, aged 17 at the time of the fire, commented that "I must have had five different experiments carried out on me with all sorts of new techniques for skin grafts and I had potions injected into me that helped my face repair naturally over time. However, as there was no real precedent, most Bradfordians accepted that the fire was a terrible piece of misfortune. Danni Phillips, the young London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art actor who spent hour after hour listening back to the scriptwriters' interviews in preparation for her beautifully observed role in The 56, hails from South Yorkshire, half an hour down the M1 and her father played football for Halifax Town. , Immediately after the fire, Professor Sharpe planned and treated the injuries of over 200 individuals, with many experimental treatments being used.