Bricks & Mortar: Buildings of Jewish Bradford

This section covers the architecture associated with the Jewish contribution to the building of Bradford. Many of the buildings shown are from the late 19th Century, and include wool ware warehouses and mills. Others are of civic structures with links to members of the Jewish community.

  1. Nathan Reichenheim of Berlin, 4 Currer Street, built 1859.
  2. Stuff warehouse, 6 Currer Street, Reiss Brothers, built 1857-58.
  3. Behrens warehouse,  26 East Parade. ”S.L. Behrens & Coompany’ , built 1873, note the iron work on the gate.
  4. The Bradford Chamber of Commerce, Vicar Lane
  5. Semons warehouse, 25 Bolton Road
  6. Moser & Edelstein headquarters, Merchants House, Peckover Street, Little Germany
  7. Atmoik House, 4 Burnett Street, formerly the Bradford Design Exchange. Named by Jonathan Silvers father, Sidney.
  8. Old Building, Bradford College (opened as Bradford Technical College)
  9. St Georges Hall, Bridge Street.
  10. Arensberg’s Jewellery shop, now Herbert Brown, Ivegate
  11. The wool exchange, Market Street
  12. City Hall, Centenary Square
  13. Eye, Nose and Throat hospital (Demolished, site of Infirmary Fields between Lumb Lane and White Abbey Road
  14. Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Allerton.
  15. Jacob Unna’s house, 2 Eldon Place.
  16. Julius Shonerman’s House, 16 Houghton Place
  17. 3 Chapel Court, Kirkgate, the site of the Bradford New Hebrew Congregation,  formed circa 1907.
  18. 22  Houghton Place was an early Synagogue  site for Bradford Hebrew Congregation at  from 1885-1890. Prior to here, they met in a room on Tyrell Street in the city centre, which was adjacent to the Bradford City Hall.
  19. At 25 Houghton Place an alternative congregation was founded a few doors down from the earlier Synagogue. In about 1899, the two congregations merged, eventually becoming the Bradford Hebrew Congregation.
  20. The site of  the Kosher butchers shop at 3 Nesfield Street, Manningham Lane.
  21. Bradford Hebrew Congregation, the first purpose built Orthodox Synagogue, Spring Gardens, built 1906.
  22. The Bradford Synagogue, Bowland Street, built 1881
  23. Schiller Verein, Rawson Square.