Description
Take a trip in a time machine by strolling through Bradford’s Undercliffe Cemetery, with its imposing granite obelisks, looming mausoleums and monumental sculptures in our twilight Heritage walking tour.
Your tour guides will take you through the cemetery gates at dusk, summoning up tales of the authors, poets and painters who reside within its grounds. They will walk you through the final resting place of Bradford’s famous industrialists, mayors, and businessmen, all of whom have the most prominent spots in the cemetery, while those less well off were relegated elsewhere.
Even in death, rigid social rules applied, and here you will get a glimpse of Victorian Bradford’s social hierarchy still at work.
This is an outdoor walking tour. Attendees are encouraged to wear comfortable footwear and weather appropriate clothing.
About the Host
Steve Lightfoot
Steve Lightfoot, Chairman of Undercliffe Cemetery Charity, brings a wealth of experience from twenty years in Civil Engineering and IT. He established an IT business in 1990 and led a national buying group. His passion for photography led him to explore Victorian photographic studios in Leeds and Bradford, ultimately leading him to Undercliffe Cemetery. With a passion for local history, Lightfoot finds studying the studios and their sitters as the perfect lens through which to delve into Victorian Worthies and the area’s past.
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