by admin | May 18, 2020 | Bradford, Provenance of these Hockney Phone Books, The 1989 Bradford Phone Book
I worked at the now long gone Grattan plc, in Ingleby Road in the Telecoms Department from 1984 – 1991. We had hundreds of individual phones lines and for each one, we received and annual Phone Book. As usual, in 1989, when we received a van load of phone books...
by admin | May 15, 2020 | Bradford
In late 1986, with Bradford doing less well than it might, an advertising campaign was devised. It went by the slogan “Bradford’s Bouncing Back”. This was the first time David Hockney had created a piece of art specifically about Bradford and it was...