A massive thank you to Olivia Johnston, Photo Archive Assistant at Bradford District Museums and Galleries, who addressed the History Society’s monthly meeting on Wednesday 11th March 2026. The subject of her talk was “C. H. Wood: Photographer & Pioneer”. She shared photographic examples from the archive of over 300,000 images and detailed Wood’s life that included motorcycle test driving, developing infra-red photography that captured incredible detail, taking aerial photographs over incredibly impressive distances, and inventing vital equipment to help train RAF pilots during the Second World War. The C. H. Wood Photography Archive can be found at photos.bradfordmuseums.org
And a big thank you to everyone who came along. The meeting took place in the Main Hall of Keighley Civic Centre and there were 54 visitors in the hall with a further twelve people joining via Zoom. Photographs taken by Tim Neal.
April’s History Society meeting will be on Wednesday 8th April and this time we will be meeting in St. John’s Church in Ingrow. Committee member Steve Bown will be giving a talk on some of the famous and some of the less-well-known people buried in the churchyard.
