Andrea Dunbar mural appears in home city
A mural of the Bradford writer Andrea Dunbar has appeared on the side of a building in her home city.
The playwright is best known for Rita, Sue and Bob Too, which was turned into a 1987 film and was predominantly filmed in Bradford.
The play was one of three Dunbar, who grew up on the Buttershaw council estate, wrote before her death at the age of 29 in 1990.
Her former home on Brafferton Arbor has a blue plaque outside, but no permanent city centre tribute currently exists.
Bristol-based artist Stewy created the artwork using a stencil and spray paint.
Adelle Stripe, who wrote a novel about Dunbar's life, called her a "true hero of the streets".
"It's wonderful to see Andrea commemorated in the heart of Bradford," she said.
"Frederick Delius, the Brontës and J.B. Priestley are cultural figures who all have a physical presence in the centre.
"I hope this will open up an important conversation about her writing and significance."
The writer was 15 when she wrote her first play, The Arbor, as a CSE assignment in 1977.
About a schoolgirl who falls pregnant, it was launched at London’s Royal Court Theatre in 1980 and later perfoermed in New York.
Dunbar's second play, Rita, Sue and Bob Too, became her most famous, with her final play, Shirley, finished in 1986.
She died after suffering a brain haemorrhage in the Beacon pub on the Buttershaw council estate.
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