Author Archive: Anna Hope

The Ballroom

The seed of The Ballroom was a tiny, almost crossed-out note in the corner of the 1911 census; ‘all are there,’ it read, ‘except the father, who is in Menston Asylum.’ The father in question was my great-great-grandfather, an Irishman who had settled in Bradford, married and had a child. Immediately intrigued and knowing nothing […]