- Holds meetings, normally with speakers, on Wednesdays throughout the year at 2pm, normally at Thornton Community Centre, Market Street. All are welcome. Their programme of events is shown below.
- Has an archive of photographs, drawings, maps, and research findings on the local history of Thornton The archive is viewable at South Square by arrangement, contact antiquarians@southsquarecentre.co.uk (Updated 2nd August 2019)
- Some individual members do research into different aspects of local history in Thornton and some present their findings at meetings of the Society.
- Hold a Local History Exhibition, normally on the last Saturday of June, at Thornton Methodist Church, from 11am to 4pm.
- A large model of the former Thornton Railway Station was on display at the 2019 exhibition. The photo shows part of the model.
Thornton Antiquarian Society …….programme August to December 2019
August 7th….Richard Gill……Memories of Bradford
August 14th ..Jeanne Stitt…A History Of Special Needs
August 21st..Councillor Richard Dunbar…….
August 28th..Bank Holiday……no meeting
September 4th…..Michael Astrop…Origins and Oddities of English Inn Signs
September 11th…. Mary Twentyman..’Hardy v North’
September 18th…..autumn trip
September 25th…Alun Pugh…’”The Long & Winding Road,”.How the Beatles became….
October.2nd….Richard Gill…A walk round Clayton and Thornton
October 9th….Christine Booth…Anne Lister’s Secret Diaries…
October 16th…Hedley Smith…Nursery Rhymes…
October .23rd…Annual Lunch
October 30th….Janet Senior….Bradford Charities
November 6th..,Eric Jackson…The Gunpowder Plot
November 13th….Trevor Wood..’Incidents in Teaching’
November 20th….Stuart Hartley…’What made Yorkshire Great’
November 27th….Tony Hillam… Topic to be arranged
December 4th….John Lyte…Briestfield , Part 2(Bits and Pieces)
December 11th…. Tish Lawson…Bradford Pantos….
December 18th. Christmas Party..Tricia and Neil Atkinson
December 25th. Christmas Day…no meeting
