The Lilycroft Hotel in Manningham, with Lister’s Mill chimney behind IN the latest of his look backs at old pubs in the city, Dr Paul Jennings, author of The Local: A History of the English Pub and Bradford Pubs, focuses on the Lilycroft Hotel: The same research at Bradford Council’s Housing Department many years ago which found the photograph of the Fitzgerald Arms in my recent piece also turned up this one of the Lilycroft Hotel in Manningham. Its location is instantly recognisable from Lister’s colossal mill chimney in the background. Samuel Lister sold a plot of land to Thomas Cowling, a manager at the works, in 1871. That was the year in which the old Manningham Mills burned down, following which the present vast premises were constructed.