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Thornbury, West Yorkshire
Thornbury is an area of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England on the border with the City of Leeds. Thornbury is located in the Bradford Moor ward and the Bradford East parliamentary constituency. Thornbury is contiguous with Pudsey – part of the City of Leeds conurbation and borders Laisterdyke, and Fagley in Eccleshill ward. History Thornbury was originally a distinct village but became part of Bradford in 1882. In the late 19th and early 20th century, Thornbury was the seat of various enterprises such as Crofts Engineering and John Sharp & Co textile manufacturing machine engineers and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company. On Leeds Road there were some large former tramsheds and former bus depot dating from when Bradford had its own tram, trolleybus and bus services. Bradford Corporation Trams had their own works in Thornbury where over 150 tram cars were built. Buffalo Bill staged a performance of his Wild West Show in Thornbury when touring England i ...
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City Of Bradford
The City of Bradford () is a local government district of West Yorkshire, England, with the status of a city and metropolitan borough. It is named after its largest settlement, Bradford, but covers a large area which includes the towns and villages of Keighley, Shipley, Bingley, Ilkley, Haworth, Silsden, Queensbury, Thornton and Denholme. Bradford has a population of 528,155, making it the fourth-most populous metropolitan district and the sixth-most populous local authority district in England. It forms part of the West Yorkshire Urban Area conurbation which in 2011 had a population of 1,777,934, and the city is part of the Leeds-Bradford Larger Urban Zone (LUZ), which, with a population of 2,393,300, is the fourth largest in the United Kingdom after London, Birmingham and Manchester. The city is situated on the edge of the Pennines, and is bounded to the east by the City of Leeds, the south by the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees and the south west by the Metropolitan B ...
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Leeds Bradford Odeon-1200
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locat ...
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Listed Buildings In Bradford (Bradford Moor Ward)
Bradford Moor is a ward in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. It contains six listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. All the listed buildings are designated at Grade II, the lowest of the three grades, which is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The ward is to the east of the centre of Bradford, and includes the districts of Laisterdyke and Thornbury. It is mainly residential, and the listed buildings consist of a farmhouse and farm buildings, a chaplaincy with an attached stable block and coach house, a former Sunday school, and two rows of terraced cottages. __NOTOC__ Buildings References Citations Sources * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bradford (Bradford Moor Ward) Lists of listed buildings in West Yorkshire Listed Listed may refer to: * Listed, Bornholm, a fishing village on the Danish island of Bornholm * Listed (MMM program), a television ...
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Joolz Denby
Joolz Denby (born Julianne Mumford 9 April 1955, previously known simply as Joolz) is a poet, novelist, artist and tattooist based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Early life Born to an Army family at Colchester Barracks in Essex, England, Julianne Mumford moved with her parents to Harrogate, North Yorkshire at age 11. While a pupil at Harrogate Ladies' College, she started to hang around with local bikers at age 15, although she was more interested in the mechanical side of motorcycles than becoming a biker-chick. In 1975, at age 19, she married Kenneth Denby, who wanted to be a "prospect" or probationary member of the Bradford chapter of the Satans Slaves Motorcycle Club. In an interview with the BBC in 2005, she described her time as a Satans Slave associate as: "It was very difficult. We didn't have a very good relationship with the police. If anything happened you knew you would immediately get the blame. There were only certain places you could go. We had a lot ...
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First Bradford
First West Yorkshire operates both local and regional bus services in West Yorkshire, England. It is a subsidiary of the FirstGroup, and is made up of three sub-division brands: First Bradford, First Halifax, Calder Valley & Huddersfield and First Leeds. History In April 1974, West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive was formed, with the municipal fleets of Bradford, Calderdale, Halifax, Huddersfield and Leeds combined. Services were branded under the MetroBus brand, with a cream and verona green livery adopted. To comply with the Transport Act 1985, West Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive bus operations were transferred to a separate legal entity – rebranded as Yorkshire Rider. The livery changed to a bright green and cream livery with a stylised "YR" logo, plus the name "Yorkshire Rider", with an area on the logo that incorporated the town in which the garage for that bus was located. In October 1988, Yorkshire Rider was sold in a management buyout.
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New Pudsey Railway Station
New Pudsey railway station is in Farsley, West Yorkshire, England, on the Calder Valley line from Leeds to Bradford Interchange, Halifax, Huddersfield, Manchester Victoria, and Blackpool North. Lying west of Leeds, it serves as a commuter station for the western edge of the Leeds conurbation. Facilities The station is staffed, and the ticket office is open from 05:55 to 19:00 on Mondays to Saturdays. A ticket machine is also available. Step-free access from the booking office to both platforms is provided via ramps to the footbridge that links them. Train running information is available via passenger information screens and P.A announcements. The platforms are long enough to accommodate Intercity trains, and there is a large car park to the south of the station. New Pudsey was originally served by occasional through trains from Bradford Interchange to London Kings Cross. However, after electrification of the East Coast Main Line, through services were routed via ...
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B6381 Road
New B roads are numbered routes in Great Britain of lesser importance than A roads. See the article Great Britain road numbering scheme The Great Britain road numbering scheme is a numbering scheme used to classify and identify all roads in Great Britain. Each road is given a single letter (which represents the road's category) and a subsequent number (between 1 and 4 digits). ... for the rationale behind the numbers allocated. Zone 6 (3 digits) Zone 6 (4 digits) References {{DEFAULTSORT:B Roads in Zone 6 of the Great Britain Numbering Scheme 6 6 ...
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A647 Road
The A647 is an A road in West Yorkshire, England that begins in Leeds and ends in Halifax. The road is long. Route The road begins at the Armley Gyratory and goes via Armley, by-passes Stanningley and Pudsey, then onwards via Thornbury to the edge of Bradford city centre. The road then becomes part of the Bradford's Inner Ring Road (''Croft Street'') heading through Great Horton and up to Queensbury ( above sea level) before heading down hill via Boothtown to Halifax town centre. History In June 2016 the CS1 Cycle Superhighway opened from Bradford to Leeds, for the most part following the corridor of the A647. However unlike similarly named schemes in the Netherlands and London, this route relies on allocated lane space within the vehicle carriageway which has led to criticism over its effectiveness from cycling and transport consultants. Stanningley bypass The road is a stretch of dual carriageway on the western edge of Leeds. The first section (Dawson's Corner to Rich ...
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Laisterdyke Leadership Academy
Laisterdyke Leadership Academy is a co-educational secondary school and sixth form located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. History Following the re-organisation of education in the local education authority (LEA) in September 1999 the school changed from a middle school for pupils aged 8 to 13 to its current designation. In September 2002, Laisterdyke High School admitted its first intake of sixth form students and became an 11 to 18 school. The school previously gained Business and Enterprise College status and was renamed Laisterdyke Business and Enterprise College. In April 2016 the school was converted to academy status and was renamed Laisterdyke Leadership Academy. The school is now part Star Academies. Facilities As part of its upgrade and building development, the school has provided ICT facilities for pupils, staff and surrounding schools. Since the switch from a middle to secondary school, Laisterdyke has added a sports hall, a second dining hall, new class ...
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Odeon Leeds-Bradford
Odeon Leeds-Bradford Odeon Leeds-Bradford is a multiplex cinema at Gallagher Leisure Park, Thornbury, West Yorkshire, between the cities of Leeds and Bradford in England. It has 13 auditoria, ranging from 126 to 442 seats. All screens have Dolby Digital sound, and the two largest screens have DTS digital surround sound. In 2011 Odeon Cinemas had all 13 screens converted to digital using NEC digital cinema projectors, Doremi Servers and Unique System's Rosetta Bridge Theatre Management System. Seven of the screens are equipped for 3D projection with the RealD Cinema system. Gallagher Group developed the Leisure Park at the end of the 1990s and contracted a major cinema chain to operate the multiplex. That chain withdrew before the cinema was completed, so Odeon Cinemas took over. The cinema opened on 6 July 2000, showing ''Stuart Little''. Odeon had closed the Bradford Odeon in June 2000 and closed the Odeon Cinema Leeds in 2001. In September 2017 the cinema underwe ...
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The Thornbury Centre-1200
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ...
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Millennium Commission
The Millennium Commission, a United Kingdom public body, was set up to celebrate the turn of the millennium. It used funding raised through the UK National Lottery to assist communities in marking the close of the second millennium and celebrating the start of the third. The body was wound up in 2006. Composition Set up in 1993 by the National Lottery etc. Act 1993, the Commission was an independent non-departmental public body. Commissioners were appointed by the Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister; the Chair of the Commission was, for most of its life, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, and for most of its life a second government minister was also a Commissioner. During Tessa Jowell's tenure as Chair the second Minister was Richard Caborn, as Minister for Sport, who preceded Jowell in the department by one day, and who left the department contemporaneously (when Gordon Brown became Prime Minister). Closure The Commission was wound up in Dece ...
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