KEIGHLEY & DISTRICT LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY
WE PRESERVE AND SHARE
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
This postcard of the long-since demolished Quebec Bridge in Keighley was posted on the 25th April 1904. It was one of the Wrench Series of postcards published in the early 1900s. It is a painting of the bridge but it is clear how an original photograph has been used as its basis. The postcard is held in the History Society’s archive while the photograph is courtesy of Bradford Libraries, Archives and Information Service and was part of the K100 Picture Collection.
Wishing everyone a glorious Easter weekend. These are two Easter services cards from St James’ church in Cross Roads with Lees from the early 1950s, plus a postcard of the church. All images from our digital archive.
Last week the History Society organised a visit to Wyedean Weaving Co. Ltd. in Haworth. We have just uploaded over 200 photographs and 12 short videos of the visit to our Flickr page. Click below to see more.
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We had a terrific visit to Wyedean Weaving on Wednesday evening. Eighteen History Society members were given a guided tour around the firm that has operated out of Bridgehouse Mill in Haworth since the 1960s. We were given a history of the company and saw demonstrations of several of the machines. Our sincere thanks to…
We had a terrific visit to Wyedean Weaving on Wednesday evening. Eighteen History Society members were given a guided tour around the firm that has operated out of Bridgehouse Mill in Haworth since the 1960s. We were given a history of the company and saw demonstrations of several of the machines. Our sincere thanks to Robin Wright and his team for hosting us. More photographs and video from the visit will be posted on the Flickr site soon.
A small selection of postcards of Keighley from over 100 years ago. The cards were printed by Schofield & Co. Publishers of Burnley. They show The Cross (when it was safe to walk down the middle of the road!), the Town Hall Square (pre the War Memorial), Cavendish Street (with tram lines and overhead power cables) and Lund Park (with a lake!).
