Place:Manningham, West Riding of Yorkshire, England

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Manningham is an historically industrial workers area as well as a council ward of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. The population of the 2011 Census for the Manningham Ward was 19,983.

History

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Manningham holds a wealth of industrial history, including mill buildings, imposing wool merchants' houses and back-to-back terraced houses. It is the old Jewish area of Bradford. Many of Manningham's German community later migrated to the Heaton area of the city.

Cinema history

In 1912 the Manningham Kinematograph Company Ltd opened the 519 seat Oak Lane Picture House on a site on the north side of Oak Lane between St Mary's Road and Sunderland Road. The cinema was a converted horse tramshed of the Bradford Tramways and Omnibus Co Ltd. The name was changed to Oriental in 1920 and by 1931 Western Electric sound had been installed. The building closed in 1936 for a partial rebuild involving a new roof, balcony, and an enlarged screen, and the cinema reopened in 1937. A Hammond organ was subsequently installed but was removed at the start of the Second World War. In 1955 a CinemaScope screen was installed with stereophonic sound, but the cinema closed in 1958. The building was subsequently demolished and a mini-supermarket built on the site.

The purpose-built 1,250 seat Marlboro Cinema was located at the junction of Carlisle Road and Carlisle Street and opened in 1921. The building was designed by architect T Patrick and is built of red brick with a white tiled entrance and domed tower. It was owned by Moulson's Marlboro Cinema Company headed by Milton Moulson.^[1] Sound films were shown by 1930, and the number of seats was reduced to 1227 in 1944. Walter Eckert's Star Cinemas (London) Ltd acquired the cinema in 1950 and installed Western Electric sound. It had a panoramic screen from 1954, but stereo sound was never installed. Bingo was introduced on a part-time basis but the cinema closed fully in 1962 with bingo continuing full-time until 1968.^[1] From 1962 to 1982 it was known as the Liberty Cinema showing Asian films. After closure and removal of the raked floor and balcony the building became a bedding and textile warehouse.^[1] After a major refurbishment by Asian Cine Ltd in 2000, the cinema - now reduced to 400 seats - showed Bollywood films. In 2001 a blaze wrecked the cinema, and its fire-damaged part was rebuilt as an Asian Marriage Hall and function room.^[1]

The former Manningham Methodist Church off Carlisle Road was converted into the Sangeet Cinema opening in 1970 which showed Asian films. The former church building was very large and also housed numerous Asian businesses. The Naz was a smaller cinema created at the rear of the building which was only used occasionally. The Sangeet closed in 1980, and a series of fires struck the building in the 1980s, after which the whole building was demolished.

Deprivation

Manningham was the location of the Manningham riot (June 1995) and the Bradford Riots (July 2001). In April 1994, The Independent newspaper reported that unemployment in Manningham stood at 40% (around four times the national average at the time), and that a large number of known drug users and alcoholics lived there.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Manningham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"MANNINGHAM, a township and two chapelries in Bradford parish, [West Riding of] Yorkshire. The township comprises the NW suburb of Bradford; extends 2 miles N W of the town; has a station on the [Bradford] and Leeds railway; and contains three hamlets. Acres, 1,295. Real property, £41,752; of which £1,087 are in quarries, and £1,820 in mines. Pop. in 1851: 9,604; in 1861: 12,889. Houses: 2,679.

"Manningham Hall, with much of the land, belongs to S.Lister, Esq. The hall was built near the end of last century, on the site of a previous Mansion, long in possession of the Listers; and is surrounded by a park. Clock House, Whetley Hill, and Bolton Royds also are chief residences; and many houses of a superior class have been erected since 1851. Many of the inhabitants are employed in the worsted and stuff manufactures.

"The two chapelries are St. Jude and St. Paul, and were constituted in 1844 and 1846. Pop., in 1861, of St. Jude, 5,891; of St. Panl, 5,283. The living of St. J. is a p. curacy, of St. P. a vicarage, in the diocese of Ripon. Values, £300 * and £150.* Patron of St. J., the Vicar of Bradford; of St. P., J. Hollings, Esq. St. Jude's church stands in Lumb-lane; and was erected in 1843, at a cost of about £3,000. St. Paul's church was erected in 1847, and twice enlarged prior to 1867, a tan aggregate cost of about £6,000, all defrayed by J. Hollings, Esq.; and is a handsome edifice in the early English style. There are a very fine Independent chapel, a Wesleyan chapel enlarged in 1865, a national school, and Wesleyan schools in the Tudor style erected in 1865."

Historically, Manningham was in the ecclesiastical parish of Bradford in the Morley Division of the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley.

Research Tips

• GENUKI on Manningham. The GENUKI page gives numerous references to local bodies providing genealogical assistance.
• The FamilySearch wiki on the ecclesiastical parish of Bradford provides a list of useful resources for the local area.
• A Vision of Britain through Time on Manningham.
• A Vision of Britain through Time provides links to maps of the West Riding, produced by the United Kingdom Ordnance Survey, illustrating the boundaries between the civil parishes and the rural districts at various dates. The location of individual settlements within the parishes is also shown. These maps all expand to a very large scale.

• Ordnance Survey West Riding 1888. The "Sanitary Districts (which preceded the rural districts) for the whole of the West Riding.
• Ordnance Survey West Riding North 1900 and Ordnance Survey West Riding South 1900. The rural and urban districts, not long after their introduction. NOTE: In 2022 the map of the southern section is not available through the Vision of Britain website. It is unknown if this omission is accidental or if the copy used by the university has been damaged in some way.
• Yorkshire West Riding South and Yorkshire West Riding North revised_1944. These two maps illustrate the urban and rural districts of the whole of the West Riding after the revisions of 1935.
• A further useful map on A Vision of Britain through Time is a boundary map dated 1917. This shows all the boundaries of villages, townships and parishes in the Holmfirth area.