Bradford City Hall #4

Just above the civic entrance to Bradford City Hall are the Lord Mayor's rooms. This suite serves as a working office space and is also where the Lord Mayor formally receives and welcomes visitors from all over the world, on behalf of the Bradford district. The rooms are beautifully panelled and carved with proverbs and mottos. It is both elegant and very cosy. 

The entrance hall has a beautiful chandelier that looked like Venetian glass to me. 

I was also interested to see this attractive long-case grandfather clock (below), made by John Barraclough of Haworth (though it may not be functioning as it was not showing the correct time). John Barraclough (1773-1835) was an important and well-known clock maker, living and working on Haworth Main Street at the time of the Brontës. His workshop is now The Hawthorn restaurant. There is a John Barraclough clock in the Parsonage, which was made for Patrick Brontë. Branwell Brontë may have been acquainted with Barraclough through the Haworth Masonic Lodge and is thought to have painted his portrait. Charlotte Brontë used the name Moses Barraclough in ‘Shirley’. John Barraclough died in 1835 and is buried in St Michael and All Angels churchyard in Haworth.