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The Bradford Exchange is an American producer and seller of collectible goods, jewelry, sports memorabilia and apparel. Now part of the Bradford Group, it was founded in 1973 as The Bradford Gallery of Collector's Plates by J. Roderick MacArthur . [1]
He started the Bradford Exchange, and by the time of his death, it sold about 90 percent of all the collectible plates in the world. Often credited with becoming "a self-made millionaire," MacArthur did have some financial backing from his father, but the concept, business plan and effort behind the Bradford Exchange were Rod MacArthur's own.
Bradford Drake Street railway station (later called Exchange) was opened by the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway on 9 May 1850. [2] The station was designed in an "Italianate-style" by a local architect, Eli Milnes, [3] and was furnished with an island platform underneath a train shed that was 120 feet (37 m) long and 63 feet (19 m) wide.
Bradford Interchange is a transport interchange in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, which consists of a railway station and bus station adjacent. The Interchange, which was designed in 1962, was hailed as a showpiece of European design and was opened on 14 January 1973. It is served by the majority of bus services in the city centre, while ...
Bradford Interchange station, formerly Bradford Exchange and jointly owned by GNR and the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway; to Bradford Forster Square, formerly owned by the Midland Railway: Holbeck Low Level station (closed 1958) Armley Canal Road (closed 1965) Kirkstall (closed 1965) Kirkstall Forge (closed 1905). A new Kirkstall Forge ...
The Wool Exchange, Bradford. The Wool Exchange Building in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England is a grade I- listed building built as a wool-trading centre in the 19th century. The grandeur of its Gothic Revival architecture is symbolic of the wealth and importance that wool brought to Bradford. Today it is a Waterstones bookshop as well as a cafe.
The branch extended for 8.5 miles (13.7 km) between the two terminuses of Shipley Windhill and Bradford Exchange. The route as built from Laisterdyke to Shipley was actually only 6.5 miles (10.5 km) as the initial section from Bradford Exchange to Laisterdyke was already in existence as part of the Great Northern Railway's line to Leeds.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway Company (L&BR) [note 1] opened a railway line between the towns [note 2] on 1 July 1846. It extended its line from Shipley through Keighley to Skipton and Colne, in 1847 and 1848. While the extension was being constructed, the L&BR negotiated with the Manchester and Leeds Railway, with a view to leasing its line ...