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A Timeline of Bingley History

Bingley History – a timeline of events

This Timeline of Bingley History is intended to capture some of the main events which have taken place in the local area from 1120 up to 2011. As such it is intended to be illustrative rather than exhaustive.

Content is taken from Chapters of the book Bingley and Surrounds – Forgotten Moments from History by Alan Cattell with permission from the author. First published 2011 ©Alan Cattell, 2011.

Alan Cattell has written many interesting Bingley History articles for us over the years, we worked with him to produce this useful Timeline of Bingley History as a way to search and review by dates or events. You will find some events in the Timeline link to Bingley History articles written by Alan Cattell. To see all the Bingley History articles then please see more Local History articles here.

Use the search feature for dates or events >>>>

YEAREVENT
1120Drax Priory grant Bingley Church
1212Bingley Market Charter granted - 800 Years of Bingley Market
1316Raids on Skipton by the Scots
1500Bingley Church re-erected
1503First Cottingley Hall built
1518Bingley Church Choir erected
1529Bingley Grammar School endowed
1596Gawthorpe Hall, Bingley built
1601Manor House, Micklethwaite built
1616Harden Hall (St Ives) built
1631Many inhabitants of Beckfoot hamlet die of the Black Plague
1635Priestthorpe Hall (later known as the Old Vicarage) built
1642Lord Thomas Fairfax (born in Otley) and his son rumoured to have stayed at Harden Hall during the Civil War
East Riddlesden Hall built
1677Eldwick Hall built
1685Ireland Bridge Bingley built of stone
1723Beckfoot Bridge Bingley built
1739Bingley Church Tower raised
1753Bingley Market Hall built on Main Street 800 Years of Bingley Market
Cottingley Toll Bar at Cottingley Bridge
1757John Wesley visits Bingley 13 times up to 1788
1770Myrtle Grove, Bingley built
Regular gypsy gatherings are held at Baildon from this date and over the next 200 years
1774Leeds and Liverpool Canal – Skipton to Bingley opened including 3 and 5 Rise locks
1775Roman silver coin hoard found in a chest at Morton Banks by a local farmer
Ireland Bridge repaired and widened
1780Haworth  Parsonage Built
1792Hewenden Mill- Wilsden built
First Stagecoaches through Bingley on Leeds to Kendal route, calling at the Kings Head, Elm Tree and White Horse coaching inns
1794William Wickham of Cottingley acts as a British Master Spy during the French Revolution
1796The Haworth highwayman James Sutcliffe is executed at York for highway robbery at Keighley
1800Eldwick Beck Mill
1802Providence Mill, Bingley
1810Holroyd Mill, Morton Beck
1812Prospect Mill, Bingley
1814Building of Bingley Elementary School
1815Old Chapel , High Eldwick
1820Bronte family move to Haworth
1823Shipley St John’s Church foundation stone laid
Toll Bar moved to Cottingley Bar
1824St Matthews Church, Wilsden foundation stone laid
1825Opening of the Keighley to Bradford Turnpike 
Road
1828Sunday School, Wilsden
1830The Airedale Heifer weighing 41 stone 12 pounds and owned by Mr Slingsby of  Riddlesden Hall is  slaughtered
1832Spring Mill, Wilsden
1836Titus Salt discovers practical use for Alpaca wool
1837Mechanics Institute, Wilsden
1839Infants School, Wilsden
1841Providence Mill, Wilsden
1842Plug Drawing on water and steam at Bingley mills by the Chartists
1843Royd Mill, Wilsden
Friday 13th April John Nicholson – the Airedale Poet and an employee of Titus Salt dies of exposure after falling into the River Aire near Victoria Road, Saltaire
1844Benjamin Disraeli -future Prime Minister opens Bingley and Cottingley Allotments
1845Charlotte Bronte applies for a job as Governess to the Thornton family at Cottingley Old Hall but is turned down because she is not musically talented
1846Shipley Railway Station
1847Shipley to Keighley line opened including Bingley and Keighley stations
First Bingley Improvement Commissioners
1848Bankfield, Bingley (now a hotel)  built
Chelsea Pensioners defend Bingley during Chartist march and arrests of the ringleaders
1850Opening of Fleece Inn, Eldwick – run by Dick Hudson as Landlord until 1878. Now known as Dick Hudsons 
Bingley Co-operative Society formed
1851Bingley Building Society founded
Great Wilsden flood
1852Cottingley Mechanics Institute
New Primitive Methodist Chapel, Ryecroft
1853Salts Mill opened on 20th September, Titus Salt’s 50th birthday
Charles Dickens publishes an article in Household Words calling Titus Salt “The Great Yorkshire Llama” as a playful reference to his use of alpaca wool
1854Saltaire Village – first building phase completed
Charles Dickens visits Saltaire during the building
1856Saltaire railway station opened
1857Saltaire Village – second building phase completed
Richard Thornton of Cottingley invited by Livingstone to accompany him on his Zambesi expedition
1858William Napier of Bingley awarded the Victoria Cross for valour during the Indian Mutiny
1859Charles Darwin stayed at Ilkley from October to December. His book Origin of the Species was published in November
Mechanics Institute Harden
1860Morton Co-op opened
1862Mechanics Institute Baildon
1864Mechanics Institute, Bingley and Oakwood Hall, Bingley (now a hotel) built Read about the Mechanics Institute
Members of the Pre-Raphaelite Group undertook design of stained glass windows for churches and houses in Bradford, Bingley, Silsden and Harden
1865Shipley Baptist Church and Cottingley Town Hall built
Prince of Wales Park, Bingley opened
1866Albion Mill, Wilsden rebuilt and Bingley Agricultural Show instituted
1867Haworth, Oakworth and Oxenhope railway stations opened
Cottingley Co-op opened
1868Almshouses, Salts Hospital, Saltaire Methodist Church and Elementary School built
New Moravian Church, Baildon built
Discontinuance of Tolls on Keighley and Bradford Turnpike road
Holy Trinity Church, Bingley built
1869Airedale Mills, Micklethwaite
Bingley Boiler Explosion: The boiler at Town’s bobbin 
mill on Park Road explodes and employees and schoolchildren at the nearby National Board School 
are killed or injured
1870Bingley Parish Church restored 
Building of Milner Field started read: Milner Field and Titus Salt
1871Saltaire Institute built
Cullingworth and Crossflatts Co-ops opened
Bowling Green Mill, Bingley
Boathouse Saltaire opened
1875Micklethwaite Free Methodist Chapel
1876Baildon Station built and Shipley to Guiseley railway opened
Wilsden and Crossflatts schools opened
1877Board Schools opened at Mornington Road, Bingley, Eldwick and Harden
Bingley Rugby founded
1878Harden Co-op opened
1880Airedale Harriers founded
1882Royal visit to Saltaire by the Prince and Princess of Wales
Bingley Market Rights purchased from Lord of 
Manor 800 Years of Bingley Market
Cullingworth Viaduct opened
1884Hewenden Viaduct built and Cullingworth and Denholme railway stations built
1886Wilsden station opened
1887Exhibition Building Saltaire opened and Jubilee Exhibition opened by Prince Henry Of Battenberg and HRH Princess Beatrice
1888Market Hall and Butter Cross moved from Main Street, Bingley to the quarry in Prince of Wales Park 800 Years of Bingley Market
Central Co-op store built on Bingley Main Street
Elm Tree Hill removed for widening of Main Street, Bingley
1889Bingley Technical School opened
Post Office building Wilsden built but never used as a Post Office
1890Methodist Church, Wilsden built and Bingley Cottage Hospital opened
1891Midland Hotel, Bingley built
Baildon Golf Club founded
1892Bingley Free Library opened
Bingley Station moves to new site
1893Industrial Society, Wilsden opened and Bingley Harriers founded
1894Improvement Commissioners constituted to Bingley Urban District Council
1895Shipley Glen Tramway opened Read about the Japanese Gardens
1897Central Buildings, Bingley Main Street opened
Baildon Moor acquired by Council
1900Great Flood at Morton in July
1901Fire Station built in Market Street, Bingley
1902Frizinghall to Shipley tram service opened
1903Nab Wood to Thackley tram service opened
Keighley Library (first Carnegie Library in the area) opened
1904Road widened at Bingley to by-pass Old Main Street and Church
1906Death of Lilly Cove (21) whilst giving a parachute demonstration from a balloon at Haworth
Shipley Public Baths
Opening of St Wilfreds Church, Gilstead
1907General Booth (Salvation Army) visited Shipley and Bingley
Myrtle Park School, Bingley opened
1908Mrs Pankhurst attends Women’s Social and Political Union rally at Shipley Glen
1909Myrtle Park, Bingley opened
1910Glen Tramway had 17,000 passengers at Easter
1911Prince’s Hall Cinema, Shipley
Bingley Ladies Teacher Training College opened
1913Bingley Post Office, Main Street
Cottingley Toll House demolished and Cottingley Bridge widened
Hippodrome Cinema, Bingley Bingley’s Lost Cinemas
1914First Tram into Bingley
1915Shipley Cinema
1917Baildon Picture House
Photographs of Cottingley Fairies taken by two local girls endorsed as real by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Later disproved
1918Tom Duxbury opens a firelighter shop on Whitley Street, Bingley which expands into joinery manufacturing and eventually becomes Magnet Joinery
Ryshworth and Crossflatts housing sites acquired
1919Betty’s Cafe, Ilkley
Harden housing site
1920Northcliffe Woods, Shipley opened
Cullingworth and Wilsden housing sites
Saltaire Park given to Council by Sir James Roberts
Happy Valley Pleasure Grounds open at Harden Read the full article here...
1921Bandstand, Northcliffe Woods, Shipley
Myrtle Cinema, Bingley (now the Myrtle Grove Pub)  Bingley’s Lost Cinemas
1922Saltaire Cinema
1927Opening of Princess Hall and Swimming Baths at Bingley by the Earl of Harewood and HRH Princess Mary
Cottingley Housing site
Happy Valley Mill Building destroyed by fire read the full article here...
1928St Ives purchased by Council
1929Sports Turf Research Institute at St Ives founded
1931Harry Ramsdens, Guiseley opens
1936German airship the Hindenberg flies over the Aire Valley in May, June and October
1937King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visit Saltaire
1939Last Tram leaves Saltaire Depot
1940Baildon gypsy gatherings stopped at the start of the Second World War and were never revived
1942Warship Week Plaque awarded to Bingley for raising money to adopt HMS Electra. Never presented as the ship was unfortunately sunk in battle
1946Have a Go, a radio quiz show which regularly attracted 20 million listeners was  first broadcast from Bingley in early 1946 by Halifax born actor and broadcaster Wilfred Pickles. The idea for the quiz was suggested by BBC Programme Director John Salt, the great grandson of Titus Salt. 
The programme ran from 1946 to 1967
1947Bingley Little Theatre founded
1950Bingley Council proposes  By-Pass
1951Bridge across River Aire at Myrtle Park
1953Baildon Station closed
1955Nab Wood Crematorium opened
Cullingworth, Denholme and Wilsden Stations closed for passenger traffic
1956Memorial Hall, Eldwick opened
1957Saltaire Cinema closed
1960Baildon Picture House closed
Arndale Shopping Centre, Shipley opened 
1962Bingley Building Society Head Office
New Market Hall, Shipley opened
1963Salts Grammar School
1964Bradford and Bingley formed from the merger of the Bradford Equitable and Bingley
Permanent Building Societies
1965Damart Factory at Bingley
Saltaire station closes
1970Airedale General Hospital
Major redevelopment of Central Area of Bingley comprising Myrtle Grove, Chapel Lane, Main Street and 7 Dials areas of Bingley (continued through to 1974). Building of Myrtle Walk Shopping Centre
1972Shipley Baths
1973Bingley Library and small Market opens in new Myrtle Walk Shopping Precinct
Baildon Station reopened
1974Bingley UDC dissolved – Becomes Bingley Ward of Bradford Council
Demolition of Holy Trinity Church, Bingley
Bingley Little Theatre moves to new Bingley Arts Centre
1976Victoria Hall, Bingley demolished
Wilsden Village Hall
1977Jubilee Gardens, Bingley
Princess Anne visits Saltaire
1979Bingley College closed
Salts Hospital closed
1982Crossflatts Station 
Yorkshire Clinic
1984Market Hall and Butter Cross moved from Prince of Wales Park to current position in Jubilee Gardens 800 Years of Bingley Market
1985Saltaire station reopens
English Heritage list Saltaire
1986Salts Mill closed
1989Pace move to Salts Mill
Visit by Princess Diana to Manorlands Hospice, Oxenhope
1991Visit by Princess Diana to Shipley
1996Visit by Prince Charles and Princess Diana to Saltaire
2000Mornington Road Methodist Church, Bingley demolished
2001Saltaire becomes a World Heritage site
2003Bingley Relief Road opened
2008Bradford and Bingley retail branches transferred to Abbey
Partial demolition of Myrtle Walk Shopping Centre, Bingley Market moves to newly revamped Town Square  800 Years of Bingley Market
(Jubilee Gardens)
2009Opening of new 5Rise Shopping Centre at 
Bingley
2010Bradford and Bingley savings accounts rebranded to Santander. Office building in Bingley closed and put 
up for sale

Opening of new Canalside Medical Centre in Bingley

First published 2011 ©  Alan Cattell, 2011

The right of Alan Cattell, to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyrights, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Bingley History, a timeline of events.

All rights reserved. No part of this book/content may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by an electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing  from the publishers.  It has not been possible to trace all the original photographers but acknowledgement has been made where known. If any copyright has been infringed it was done unintentionally and sincere apologies are offered. If advised future prints can be amended.

 

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