Yorkshire Jewish Heritage Tours

Yorkshire Jewish Heritage Tours Our page is about Jewish Heritage Walks in Yorkshire organised and guided by Nigel Grizzard.

We walk in Bradford, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Ilkley, Saltaire and Leeds

The Falk brothers came to Steel City (Sheffield) for a Roots Trip. They had come from London and Boston USA. We visited ...
15/07/2025

The Falk brothers came to Steel City (Sheffield) for a Roots Trip. They had come from London and Boston USA. We visited sites across the city including the old family homestead and the cemetery where family members are buried. Roots Trips are great fun - they take time to organise but are always worthwhile.

The last week's been busy taking visitors around Bradford. Here you can see an international delegation with the Provide...
06/07/2025

The last week's been busy taking visitors around Bradford. Here you can see an international delegation with the Provident Artwork behind them and Little Germany in the background.

Bradford Literature Festival started on Friday. We had a full house for our Little Germany Walk this morning followed by...
29/06/2025

Bradford Literature Festival started on Friday. We had a full house for our Little Germany Walk this morning followed by an eqaul number for the Jewish Heritage Walk this afternoon.

Devere House in Little Germany, Bradford was the headquarters of a company that traded with the USA in the late 19th cen...
26/06/2025

Devere House in Little Germany, Bradford was the headquarters of a company that traded with the USA in the late 19th century. The American Eagle over the doorway is a reminder of that link. A whole group who had attended Bradford University to read Modern Languages in the early 1970s came back for a 50th anniversary reunion. Ray came back to Bradford from Californa. Here he is outside Devere House.

Harrogate U3A Heritage Team came to visit Bradford today. We had a wonderful walk around the City Centre both new and ol...
24/06/2025

Harrogate U3A Heritage Team came to visit Bradford today. We had a wonderful walk around the City Centre both new and old. Our photo is of the 'Tower of Now' specially commissioned for Bradford2025. If you want to come to Bradford with your team pm me I'd love to take you round.

Trish came from Wellington, New Zealand in search of her roots. Her grandfather left Bradford in 1906 to make a new life...
15/06/2025

Trish came from Wellington, New Zealand in search of her roots. Her grandfather left Bradford in 1906 to make a new life in NZ.

On her return to Bradford, Trish stayed in an upmarket Airbnb in Saltaire. We visited addresses Trish had where the family lived in Bradford and went to Manningham Mills where the great strike of 1896 was the catalyst for the formation of the Independent Labour Party (ILP). Trish's grandfather was an ILP activist.

I always enjoy Roots Tours and I've got to do some more research now on Yorkshire migrants to New Zealand. Pictured are Trish, her son and Trish's partner in Saltaire.

Had a great walk this afternoon with a group from Amersham. They came to Bradford as one their city visits. We walked ro...
07/05/2025

Had a great walk this afternoon with a group from Amersham. They came to Bradford as one their city visits. We walked round the City Centre and Little Germany. Our picture shows them by the statue of JB Priestley the great Bradford author.

Aline Russell came down from Scotland with her husband to walk in the footsteps of her great grandfather Victor Edelstei...
02/02/2025

Aline Russell came down from Scotland with her husband to walk in the footsteps of her great grandfather Victor Edelstein who had come to Bradford in 1870 from Germany. Victor was a stuff merchant dealing in wool and was also the German Consul in the City when Bradford was the Wool Capital of the World. Victor's life in Bradford started staying at the Great Victoria Hotel along with a number of other German Jewish Merchants before he moved to Oaklands a villa in Manningham. The picture is taken in the Great Victoria Hotel where there are wonderful pictures of Bradford's past. Victor was in partnership with the 'Grand Philanthropist' Jacob Moser who funded the Hertzl Moser Jewish Hospital in Leeds and the Herzliya Gymnasia in Tel Aviv.

To start the year off we had a Heritage Walk around Little Germany and the City Centre on Sunday morning January 12th. E...
12/01/2025

To start the year off we had a Heritage Walk around Little Germany and the City Centre on Sunday morning January 12th. Even though there was snow on the ground we had a great morning walk for a group of friends from Burley-in-Wharfedale. We'll be walking again throughout the year and the walks offered include Little Germany, the Bradford City Centre, Bradford's Jewish Heritage Trail, Lister Park and the Merchant's Villas, the Mills of Saltaire along the Leeds Liverpool Canal. If you have a group and want your own tour, please pm. I'm looking forward to meeting friends old and new this year. Nigel Grizzard

Bradford 2025 started with 2 wonderful events this weekend in City Park. We were there on Saturday night along with 10,0...
12/01/2025

Bradford 2025 started with 2 wonderful events this weekend in City Park. We were there on Saturday night along with 10,000 plus people to enjoy the magician Steven Frayne (formerly known as Dynamo). It may have been a bit cold but the organisation the atmosphere was excellent and after a hot coffee at the end I felt warmed up. I'm running a whole programme of walks in and around Bradford and Saltaire so if you want to organise a group walk for you and your friends please pm me.

Adam Gefen was awarded a scholarship by the Jewish Historical Society of England for his Ph.D thesis on the 'Yiddishe Su...
09/01/2025

Adam Gefen was awarded a scholarship by the Jewish Historical Society of England for his Ph.D thesis on the 'Yiddishe Suit'. He came to Leeds this week to research and see what is left of the Tailoring Industry. Even though the weather was rough I was able to take him on a tour yesterday to see some of the remaining memories. Adam hopes to come back when the weather is better to talk to people who worked in the Industry. The picture shows Adam getting some practical experience on the sewing machine in Grand Arcade.

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