Author: Admin - Joyce

The Orange Gazebo, that makes us standout, has had a tough time recently.

Until last Saturday, 30th Aug, it was confined within the Keighley Bus Museum. They have been kindly storing it for the Society and it was in there during the fires and had to remain there, with all the buses keeping it company, while extra Fire regulations were put in place. But the valiant Bus Team managed to arrange for its release for last Sunday’s KBMT Fundraising Day so give them a very big clap please.

So we got the roof up and brilliant – no holes!

Again no holes in the sides, but they were covered in soot- yuck! But we decided the Orange Gazebo had earned its battle scars and at least we wouldn’t be doing the Keighley Show with two garden gazebos.

But Steve to the rescue. He looks to have performed miracles with the sides. So another big clap for him please.

Come and have fun in Keighley, as we celebrate Yorkshire Day Keighley style.

Lots to do for children of all ages organised by Keighley Town Council.

No visiting Mayors this year but visiting Princesses and Transformers with all sorts of activities going on in the Airedale Centre and on Church Green and Market Place. See our Calender Event for more details

KDLHS will again be holding our Gallery of Photographs and information about the town. We will be there to talk to you and discuss everything Keighley. Come and join us.

We should never forget…..

but apparently we are doing!!!

In amongst all the recent publicity, TV programmes and Commemoration Events it has come out that 50% of 16-24 in UK had little or no idea what D-Day was and why it was important. Even with all that is going on in the media they may still not know, as they get their news from “Socials” and the algorithms will probably not point them in the direction of D-Day information.

KDLHS Preserve and Share in order that people can learn from history. So if you see this can you please explain to your young adults and make them understand.

D-Day is not a story. It is not an old film. It is not a Xbox game.

It was real. It happened. Over 100,000, mostly under 24, people no longer existed after the Normandy Landings and that was only on the Allies side.

Without D-Day and the Normandy Landings the UK would, almost certainly, be under Nazi control today with all that it would have entailed. Get them to think of the effect this would have on their lives today.

D-Day was the start of stopping the horror, (the same horror that is going on today in some countries), in France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Greece, Spain, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Albania – To name but a few. Full list on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-occupied_Europe

and the UK was meant to be next…..