Annesley Mount, Little Horton Lane, Bradford

A Memory of Bradford.

I recall living at my grandparents' house at Annesley Mount from 1960 - 1966. .A formidable character lived at number 88 Annesley Mount, known to my grandparents as Parson Bullock. He shared the house with his wife and a lodger called Doris. He was the minister of a large Unitarian church in the centre of the city near Brown Muff’s. The church was demolished in 1969 as part of city centre redevelopment. His son Alan had attended Bradford Grammar School, founded in 1548, and he had one of the best intellects of his generation. A biographer wrote that “the Bullocks were poor but high-minded”. By the age of sixteen Alan was able to converse with his father in Latin. He studied Classics and Modern History at Oxford, gaining a double-first, and at one time worked as a research assistant for Winston Churchill. He became the first Master of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford and eventually the first full-time university Vice Chancellor. When he came back to Bradford and the family had a joint on Sunday, Alan would take the bones across to René's, who lived at 157 Little Horton Lane, large dog. The academic achievements of this man in his shirt sleeves were unknown to me at the time. All that I was aware of was that Parson Bullock would ask my parents “When is he going down?” or later “Has he gone down?” The “he” of course was me but I was totally ignorant of where “down” was. Later in his life Alan Bullock was to say of his father that “he was an autodidact of extraordinary mental power and spiritual feeling, who deeply affected all who knew him.”


Added 22 May 2019

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