(I remember the weekend of the Bradford Riots) … and we went down to the 1 in 12, and we didn’t open any other floor other than the cafe for I remember it being ridiculously warm, but it was the only floor we could have windows open on, because any lower everyone was kind of bit panicking that summat could get thrown through them ... I do remember feeling like Bradford was on a knife edge that day ... there was three, four-month period of shootings that happened and stuff, and they were all round the club and Manningham and stuff. And there is these weird bits that happened, but Bradford has a tendency to always bounce back from it. Sean Barrett We knew that the EDL would come in to Bradford, and some activists were like trying to support other local people or take action, or whatever it is they were planning to do. And one of my mates, a couple of them, they were in the bit of the city centre where they’d knocked down a shopping centre ... and then the right wing EDL supporters were there, and then there was, like, some conflict around Forster Square train station. So it’s all in that area, kind of kicking off. And my two mates ended up in the Cathedral with the, I don’t know what it’s called, the leader of a Cathedral. That person, religious leader, like, welcomed them in and, like, locked the doors. It’s like, “You must stay here until you’re safe.” And then they rang me, and they were like, whispering into the phone, “we’re hiding in Bradford Cathedral.” ”I’m sorry. I must have misheard you, because it sounded like you said you’re hiding in Bradford Cathedral from the fascists!” Fanny Accordian
PART ONE: A PLACE OF RESISTANCE
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