Bradford

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".

Links To Peel
Peel's wife Sheila came from Bradford and at the same city, he played gigs and gained an honourary degree at the university there. On Sounds Of The Suburbs, broadcast in 1999, Peel explored the music scene in Bradford where he interviewed Aki Nawaz of Fun-Da-Mental and Lianne Hall, who both did sessions for his show. In 2012, group of campaigners wanted to turn the derelict Art Deco cinema in Bradford into a music venue dedicated to the former DJ, however plans to do that, never materialised.