NEWBY SQUARE STORIES

Remembering
Black Bradford

Stories from Newby

Newby Square Stories is a digital archive of reminiscences from people who lived and worked in and around the Newby Square area of Bradford.

These stories came out of research that was carried out in Bradford’s black community for the Rooting Project. We made a film with support from The Leap and Bradford 2025 following interviews with people who lived and worked there, which featured in an exhibition at Bradford Museums Cartwright Hall in 2022.

Silent protest for the tenants of Newby Square.

Newby Square in the 1970s.

Photos above courtesy of Telegraph & Argus. Header photo courtesy of Prof. Miles Glendinning.

Watch the film above or click here →

“I loved my life there. You knew your neighbours and they knew you. They’d pop round for sugar. Everybody was just together… all the kids played… it was like one big happy family. Yes, we did have our ups and downs, there would be arguments and fall outs, but even so, that was still your family.

— CAROLE PALMER

Alongside the film we produced a website. It documents the history of Newby Square and includes four short films telling stories from former residents.

www.newbysqstories.co.uk

“It was a good time to grow up in… I’m glad to have been a part of it. I’m a bit disappointed that it didn’t carry on, that we didn’t keep the bonds, but I’m so glad I didn’t miss it. What I’d say to the youth now, about what Newby Square was… it was a black movement… it was a time of learning.”

— JOE PRYCE

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SPECIAL THANKS TO

Carol Palmer, Jerry Crawford, Corine Campbell, Robert Dunn, Vinny Destouche, Paul Durrant, Louise Dunn, Joe Pryce, Peter Tate, Roots Foundation Movement, MAPA, Yorkshire Film Archive, Bradford Museums, Nigel Guy & Charles Dacres (Windrush Generations), Jackie Terrelongue, Marcus Lee/Reel Street Productions (Film & Editing) and Bruce Mytton (Graphic Design).