{"id":675478,"date":"2026-01-05T13:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675478\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T13:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T13:33:11","slug":"on-this-day-in-1996-st-peters-centre-laisterdyke-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/675478\/","title":{"rendered":"On this day in 1996: St Peter&#8217;s Centre, Laisterdyke closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>The club was closing down (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Fire ravaged club forced to close<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The St Peter&#8217;s Centre, in Laisterdyke, closed after the 14th break-in in the space of a year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Bus lanes boost<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The council announced plans to extend bus lanes on Manningham Lane.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Bradford pianist&#8217;s royal appointment (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>By royal appointment<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Pianist Amanda Thompson was set to play piano for Princes Diana. Amanda had recovered from leukaemia.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital subscribers get free access to our full digital archive. Browse thousands of pages of Bradford history. Find out what was happening on the day you were born. Research your family history. We have some great offers this month, include just \u00a36 for six months. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk\/subscribe\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to find out more.\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Satellite TV headaches (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Satellite setback?<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Government was considering new laws to stop satellite broadcasters snapping up sports TV rights.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Green drive<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  A new group dedicated to preserving Bradford&#8217;s rural areas met for the first time.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Our car reviewer enjoyed the Fiat (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Bravo Fiat!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Our motoring editor reviewed the Fiat Bravo. He declared it &#8216;ideally suited to its market&#8217;. You could buy a low miles VW Golf for \u00a37995 in the classifieds.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>A car advert from 1996 (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>On this day in 1996 (Image: T&amp;A)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Baptism of fire<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Bulls pitched their two new Australian recruits into the match at Sheffield&#8217;s Don Valley Stadium.\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n    <strong>What do you remember about 1996? Let us know in the comments.<\/strong>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The club was closing down (Image: T&amp;A) Fire ravaged club forced to close The St Peter&#8217;s Centre, in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-675478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115842751225600630","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}