- Bradford CHA Rambling and Social Club Established in 1903.
- Memorabilia and records are stored in Bradford City Archive. The oldest item is 1910 syllabus. We have most syllabuses from 1925 onwards.
- The club raised funds to buy and operate its own coach in 1967 and for this and other achievements was awarded to Sir John Hunt award in 1973. Due to changes in Road Traffic legislation the coach was sold and since then the club has hired a coach, first from West Yorkshire Road Car company (which was of a similar age to the club), then after the privatisation of the bus industry, from Keighley and District Travel.
CLUB HISTORY
BRADFORD
WALKING.ORG
The Club was founded in 1903, we celebrate 105 years of walking this year.
We look forward to our future, whilst proud of our past!
- The club got into computerisation early, from 1986 the syllabus production was switched from hot metal to word processing on a Cyber mainframe computer using a Textjab line editor (ecch!). In 1990 production was switched to the more user friendly IBM PC. The mailing labels were produced by computer from the mid eighties onward.
- Now it seems the club is one of the first non-university English hiking clubs venture onto the Internet.
- In 1989 the club gave £200 to the Three Peaks Restoration project. It was the first rambling club to do this.
- For over 25 years we have made annual donations to the The Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Organisation and the Cave Rescue Organisation (both of which rescue cavers, ramblers, climbers, and animals).
A brief History... (by Chris Johnson-Green)
A MORE DETAILED HISTORY OF THE CLUB AND ITS ACTIVITIES CAN BE FOUND IN THE CLUBS
BOOK,
‘ RAMBLE DOWN MEMORY LANE ‘
(ISBN 1-905217-00-5)
-compiled by Irene Hudson and
available through the club or
at Waterstones
TAN HILL INN, Before the double glazing advert! Club coach at this time is hired from West Yorkshire and thought to be a Bristol RE , and along with the Morris car & Websters Beer dates the scene as the early ‘80s
