Editing Bingley (section)

===Post-industrial===
Bingley Teacher Training College opened in 1911 with Helen Wodehouse as principal. The first intake of students was 102 women from in and around the then [[West Riding of Yorkshire]]. Before its closure in 1979, the college produced approximately 16,000 teachers.

The [[Beeching Axe]] demolished the goods yard, although the station still has trains to Leeds, Bradford, Skipton, [[Morecambe]] and [[Carlisle, Cumbria|Carlisle]]. The textile mills have largely been closed. The [[Damart]] mill still stands and trades in textiles. Since 1995 the tannery, Bingley Mill & Andertons, have been converted into flats. The most cramped and outdated [[terraced house|terraced housing]] was partly replaced with [[council house|council housing]], Bingley Arts Centre and the headquarters of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society. Further council housing was built up the hill towards Gilstead including three [[tower block]]s, which were later demolished in 2020. In the wake of [[Margaret Thatcher]]'s reforms of council housing much of the council estate was sold and a substantial portion has been knocked down and rebuilt as private housing. The Bingley Permanent Building Society merged with the Bradford Equitable Building Society to form the [[Bradford & Bingley|Bradford & Bingley Building Society]] in 1964. It was decided to site the [[Bradford and Bingley head office|corporate headquarters]] in Bingley. This brought several thousand jobs to the town, but the building itself did not meet with universal acclaim and was demolished in 2015. The Bradford and Bingley collapsed in the 2008 credit crunch.