The Bingley Building Society was founded in this period.

The most cramped and outdated terraced housing ( in the opinion of the council ) was partly replaced with council housing, Bingley Arts Centre and the headquarters of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society.

The town was also the headquarters of the former Louth, Mablethorpe and Sutton Building Society, a local society with several branches and agents in Lincolnshire, which was taken over by the Bradford & Bingley in 1990.

Kerry Pollard raised an early day motion in the House of Commons on Monday 19 April 1999 in support of Bradford & Bingley Building Society's fight to stay mutual.

He urged Bradford & Bingley members to vote against moves to force Britain's second-largest building society to convert to a bank, saying " the early day motion will express the fear that were Bradford & Bingley Building Society to become a bank, the entire building society movement will be damaged directly.

Then acquired estate agency business of Bradford and Bingley Building Society

* Bingley and District Local History Society Bingley and District Local History Society website

The current city boundaries date from 1 April 1974, when the county borough of Bradford was merged with the borough of Keighley, the urban districts of Baildon, Bingley, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with the Queensbury parts of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and the parishes of Addingham, and Steeton with Eastburn from Skipton Rural District.

The county borough of Bradford was merged with the Borough of Keighley, the Urban Districts of Baildon, Bingley, Cullingworth, Denholme, Ilkley, Shipley and Silsden, along with part of Queensbury and Shelf Urban District and part of Skipton Rural District by the Local Government Act 1972.

The narrative opens with Mr Bingley, a wealthy, charming and social young bachelor, moving into Netherfield Park in the neighbourhood of the Bennet family.

At a ball given by Mr Bingley at Netherfield, Mr Darcy becomes aware of a general expectation that Mr Bingley and Jane will marry, and the Bennet family, with the exception of Jane and Elizabeth, make a public display of poor manners and decorum.

Novello made his stage debut in 1921 in Deburau by Sacha Guitry with Robert Loraine, Madge Titheradge and Bobbie Andrews, and among other stage engagements, in the next years he played Bingley in an adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with Ben Webster as D ' Arcy and Mary Jerrold as Elizabeth, in a cast that included Ellen Terry, May Whitty and Joyce Carey.

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Bingley is listed as " Bingheleia ", with the following entry:

Bingley became a market town with the grant of a Market Charter in 1212 by King John.

In 1592 Bingley was shown on a map by Yorkshire map-maker Christopher Saxton as a single street with about 20 houses on each side.

The Bingley section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal was completed in 1774, linking the town with Skipton, and Bradford via the Bradford Canal.

During this period the villages of Gilstead and Eldwick became conurbated with Bingley.

Bingley Teacher Training College opened in 1911 with Helen Wodehouse as principal.

As with all of the United Kingdom, Bingley experiences a maritime climate, characterised cool to mild weather, with often cloudy and damp conditions.

Bingley Little Theatre is both a venue and a major amateur group, with eight productions a year as well as studio pieces.

A second tuning, reported by William Bingley ( A Tour Round North Wales ; London: 1800 ), features the drones tuned in octaves, with the strings over the fingerboard tuned in paired fifths rather than seconds.

It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the former Bradford & Bingley.

* Bradford & Bingley plc, a British bank

* City of Bradford, including the towns of Bingley, Ilkley, Keighley and Shipley as well as Bradford

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Bingley is a market town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England.

Local travel links include Bingley railway station in the town centre and Leeds Bradford International Airport, which is located from the city centre.

The building is now empty and boarded-up, following the collapse of the Bradford and Bingley in the 2008 credit crunch.

This shows Bingley is increasingly being seen as an attractive place to live, especially as a base for commuting to Bradford and Leeds.

Bingley became a ward in the Bradford metropolitan district.

Bingley is served by a number of bus services including the 619 between Bradford and Bingley, the 615 / 616 services between Bradford and Eldwick and the 622 / 623 services between Eldwick and Scholes operated by First Group, the 662 between Bradford and Keighley, the 760 between Leeds and Keighley and the 727 / 729 services between Keighley and Cullingworth operated by Keighley and District.

Bradford City Council organises an annual music festival, Bingley Music Live in Myrtle Park.

* The Ickeringill family, which included the noted Chartists Isaac Ickeringill ( b. 1803 ) and his brother George ( b. 1810 ) and Ira Ickringill ( spelling accurate ) ( b. 1836 ), the Bradford mill founder, inventor and Mayor of Keighley, were born, raised and lived in Bingley.

Since 1995 the tannery, Bingley Mill & Andertons have been converted into flats.

The £ 47. 9 million road stretches from Crossflatts to Cottingley, threading through Bingley between the railway & the canal.

Artists such as The Charlatans, Happy Mondays, Scouting for Girls, The Automatic, Echo & The Bunnymen, Doves, The Zutons, Editors, Calvin Harris, James, The Enemy, Seasick Steve and Professor Green have performed at Bingley Music Live since 2007.

* Bradford & Bingley RFC

* Bingley Harriers & Athletic Club Bingley Harriers & AC website

* Bradford & Bingley, a bank in the UK

* Bradford & Bingley, a former British bank, now in public ownership.

NatWest, George Wimpey, Barclays, Bradford & Bingley, DVLA and Alstom also have large offices within the town.

* A bowler hat was the logo of British bank Bradford & Bingley.

Sponsors have included The Pulse radio station, Bradford & Bingley and Intersonic.