page_title: Thornbury, West Yorkshire
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Thornbury, West Yorkshire / History
caption_attribution_description: Former Thornbury Tramsheds - Leeds Road
context_page_description: Thornbury is a district on the eastern edge of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England on the border with the City of Leeds and located in the Bradford Moor ward and in the Bradford East parliamentary constituency.
  Thornbury is contiguous with Pudsey – part of the City of Leeds conurbation and borders Laisterdyke, and Fagley.
context_section_description: 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, namely in mechanical engineering
  and textile manufacturing.
  On Leeds Road there were some large former tramsheds and former bus depot
  dating from when Bradford had its own tram, bus and trolleybus 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 in 1903.
  The Kozey Picture Hall was converted from a boxing stadium and gymnasium operating as a cinema from 1912 on Leeds Old Road
  
  The cinema closed in 1920 principally due to competition from the larger Lyceum Cinema opening in 1919 in nearby Laisterdyke and became a weaving shed.
caption: Former Thornbury tramsheds now demolished
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