Manningham, Bradford
area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Manningham is a 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
The name Manningham probably derives from the Old English Maegeninghām meaning 'village connected with Maegen'.
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.
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