Acknowledgements

Rites of Passage: Bradford’s Sound System Stories was supported by the National Heritage Lottery Fund. We also wish to thank people at the following places or organisations for their help: The Beehive (Shipley); Bradford 2025; The Bradford Arms; Bradford District Museums and Galleries; Bradford Local Studies Library; Bradford Trident (Park Lane Business Centre); Checkpoint; The Dominican Association; MAPA Cultural Arts Centre, Mary Seacole Centre; The Midland Hotel; The Miracle Lounge; The Ripleys Centre (Pap’s Kitchen); Wm Morrison Supermarkets (Morrisons); National Museum of Science and Media; St George’s Hall,  Telegraph and Argus, University of Bradford (Special Collections) and West Yorkshire Archive Service. Special thanks are offered to all those people who shared their ideas, time, photos, equipment and their memories so generously. We also acknowledge the role and pay tribute to Bradford’s earliest sound system pioneers.