May 2019 – KEIGHLEY & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Liberal Bazaar 1928

A recent addition to the History Society’s archive – a booklet for a Liberal Association Bazaar held in Keighley in 1928. All the pages have been scanned and uploaded to our Flickr account. As well as some political history of the town written by J. J. Brigg and photographs of various dignitaries of the time, there are dozens of adverts for local businesses.

Sunny Hill Estate

Sunny Hill Estate in Exley Head was built by J. W. Midgley in the mid-to-late 1920s, with houses for sale from £440 to £550 (or a £40 deposit and then 12 shillings and 9 pence per week). All images are from the History Society’s digital archive on Flickr.

Front page of an advertising brochure for new housing at “Sunny Hill Garden City” (Sunny Hill Grove and Oakworth Road), Exley Head, Keighley. The houses were built by J. W. Midgley in the late 1920s. Part of the Keighley and District Local History Society digital archive.

Advert for the Sunny Hill Estate at Exley Head, built by J. W. Midgley. Pages from a guidebook to a Keighley Division Liberal Association Bazaar, held in the Municipal Hall on the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th October 1928. The original booklet is held in the Keighley and District Local History Society physical archive.

Back page of an advertising brochure for new housing at “Sunny Hill Garden City” (Sunny Hill Grove and Oakworth Road), Exley Head, Keighley. Shows a map of the Sunny Hill Garden City Estate. Part of the Keighley and District Local History Society digital archive.

Guide to Keighley Corporation Museum

Keighley Corporation Museum opened up in the former Eastwood House in what became Victoria Park in 1899. It was housed there until relocating to Cliffe Castle in 1959. The History Society has recently acquired a guide to what there was to see at the museum in 1940, which makes for fascinating reading.

Guest Speaker Talk This Wednesday

A reminder that this month’s guest speaker is Colin Holt talking about his experiences of National Service in the 1950s. The talk is this Wednesday (8th May), upstairs at Keighley Library, doors open 7pm. Admission costs £3 (£1 for History Society members). Tea and coffee served. All welcome.

Tony Somma, writing home while undertaking his National Service in the mid 1950s. Photograph from the personal collection of History Society chairperson Joyce Newton.

Keighley Bus Museum

This is an album of some of the vehicles housed at the Keighley Bus Museum. Photographs taken by Tim Neal at last weekend’s museum open day.