DIARY OF ALL EVENTS IN THORNTON

All links to further details, or other websites are in green, and normally underlined.

All exhibitions including those at the Fountain Street Arts Project, and those at South Square have their own page, press or click here. There is also a link from that page to this.

Regular events on each day of the week have their own page, press / click here. There is also a list of regular events by type of event, – press /click on the green link. There is also a list of Clubs and Groups

Those events which are not regular are described as “one-off”, and are listed under their date, below. Included in the one-off events are where, for example, there are different speakers each week at a regular event.

Informative details are on a grey background.

JANUARY 10 SATURDAY

6pm, Community Meeting at Thornton Community Centre – see poster

JANUARY 14 WEDNESDAY

12noon to 1.30pm Neighbourhood Policing Contact Point at Thornton Community Centre. If you want to discuss a problem but can’t attend on this day, contact the Neighbourhood Policing Team at: https://www.westyorkshire.police.uk/my-neighbourhood/contact-your-local-neighbourhood-policing-team?npt=BDT_BW

JANUARY 17 SATURDAY (Anne Brontë born on January 17, 1820, in Thornton)

1pm to 3pm, Saturday working party for Thornton in Boom, for details message Sarah Dixon or Bev Hughes -see poster for email address

JANUARY 19 MONDAY

1pm to 3pm Thornton in Bloom work-party. See poster

6.30pm to 8pm at the Brontë Birthplace: Monthly Talk: Charlotte Brontë & Hyperemesis Gravidarum – Myth or Reality? A talk by Dr. Michael O’Dowd For further details see here £6, buy here

JANUARY 20 TUESDAY

9.30 start till 11.30-ish but anytime between is ok. Great Northern Railway Trail Tidy Up team volunteers 2026, (on the Thornton to Queensbury section) new volunteers always welcome. Please message if you’d like to get involved. First Tuesday and Third Tuesday of each month. 9.30 start till 11.30 ish but anytime between is ok. On 6 January – “we are going to tidy up the section on the trail by the Queensbury tunnel. There’s mud and leaves (on the actual trail) from Station road to Brow lane.(bridge over the road)” All the other dates will be entered in this Diary soon.

JANUARY 23 FRIDAY

Official opening of the Hill Top public house. Details nearer the date.

FEBRUARY 1 SUNDAY

3.0pm for 3.45 screening. Downton Abbey, the Grand Finale. Sunday cinema at Thornton Community Centre. Admission £3.

FEBRUARY 7 SATURDAY

10am to 12noon Litter-Pick day, the 1st Saturday of the month, so let’s make Thornton that little bit tidier. As always the litter-pick is organised by Sapgate Gardens volunteers and run from the Community Centre (look out for the banner). Litter-pickers and bags are available as are warm drinks and biscuits. (If you can’t make it and have seen a particularly ‘grotty’ area, put a note up here and we’ll direct people to it). Thanks. As always, Kate’s ‘Pop-up Shop’ will be there, selling jams, marmalades, chutneys and honey, cards and dishcloths.

10.30am to 12noon Create Kidz, in St. James Church Hall.

11am Family Cookery Class at Thornton Community Centre “This month’s cookery class is likelly to be on February 7, 2026 at 11am. So come join us for some family fun with the kids. The class is only £2 per family and the food is prepped and then taken home to enjoy at home with your family. Please message the page with a name, contact number and how many people will be in attendance.”

FEBRUARY 14 SATURDAY

5pm for some, Programme starts at 6pm Love and Laughter at the New Tyke– see 2 illustrations below. The 1st illustration ©copyright of Facebook

MARCH 6 FRIDAY

8.30pm onwards Live music from The Good Citizens at the Ring o’ Bells

MARCH 31 TUESDAY (Charlotte Brontë died in Haworth on March 31 1855, aged 38)

APRIL 16 THURSDAY (Charlotte Brontë was born on April 16 1816, in Thornton)

MAY 11

The 41st anniversary of the fire at the Bradford City v. Lincoln match in 1985, when 56 spectators were killed and at least 265 were injured. Those killed included Craig Stockman, aged 14, and his sister Ashley, aged 16, two scholars of Thornton Grammar School.

MAY 29 FRIDAY (Anne Brontë died on May 29 1849, in Scarborough, aged 29)

JUNE 26 FRIDAY (Branwell Brontë was born on June 26 1817, in Thornton)

JULY 30 THURSDAY (Emily Brontë was born in Thornton on July 30, 1818)

JULY 4 SATURDAY

Thornton Open Gardens, also on Sunday, details to follow.

JULY 5 SUNDAY

Thornton Open Gardens, also on Saturday, details to follow.

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