KEIGHLEY & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
WE PRESERVE AND SHARE
This album has just ‘gone live’ on our Flickr site. It’s a 92-page handbook for a 1923 Grand Bazaar held in aid of Victoria Hospital (which at that time ran on voluntary funding). It features a history and photographs of the hospital, details of the stalls and entertainments that made up the five-day bazaar, and adverts for dozens of local businesses. It forms a fantastic window into life in Keighley over 100 years ago.
Keighley Local Studies Library have been in touch with a date for your diaries for the end of January…
“We have an event on Saturday, 25th January that I am sure some of your members would be very interested in. The morning is a one place study of the Mechanics’ Institute with Jude Rhodes, we shall be getting out plans, photographs and other archives out for this in the morning. In the afternoon we have the book launch of Colin Neville’s Keighley School of Art and a talk by him about the Mechanics’ Institute, the art school and its artists.”
Please contact the team in the Local Studies Library if you want any further details.
Happy New Year, everyone!
Our first History Society meeting of 2025 will be family and local historian Jude Rhodes looking at back-to-back housing as a solution to the rapid population growth during the Industrial Revolution which led to disease in poor social classes, but were all back-to-back housing areas of slums?
This is a HISTORY SOCIETY MEMBERS ONLY meeting, which will be held on Zoom (not in the Library). Details on how to join in on Zoom will be sent out via email a few days in advance of the meeting.