Bradford has quite a lineup of ornate Victorian buildings and also what is claimed to be the largest former industrial building in the world—Salts Mill. Salts Mill currently houses a shopping centre and a collection of paintings by Bradford-born painter David Hockney. You may also recognize this area as the home of the Brontë sisters—Charlotte, Emily, and Anne—who wrote their famous novels while living at the parsonage in Haworth, outside of Bradford.
Yet, you may not known that on a quiet side street, at 8 Clifton Villas, is the Bradford Eesti Kodu (Bradford Estonian Club), founded in 1956. Reet Järvik, Chairperson of Klubi Eesti Kodu Bradford, kindly shed some light on this corner of the global Estonian community:
(Read more: Estonian Life No. 43 2020 paber- and PDF/digi)
Written by Vincent Teetsov, Toronto
