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Underground lake and tallest chimney

7:10am Thursday 4th February 2010

Fleece Mills, an industrial complex in the heart of Keighley, is seen here across the less fashionable side of Cavendish Street 100 or so years ago.

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The recent snowfalls fell short of the past

7:25am Thursday 28th January 2010

Our recent snow, disrupting though it was, fell far short of many past winters, as shown in these scenes photographed in February of notorious 1947 and supplied by Mr Robin Longbottom, of Providence Lane, Oakworth.

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Bus passengers stood on seats to get through

8:01am Thursday 21st January 2010

A reminder of Keighley’s occasional unfortunate extremes of climate, this was the view along Dalton Lane, on September 20, 1946, after a night and more of torrential rain had caused the worst floods in then living memory, with the River Worth bursting its banks below Dalton Lane and near its confluence with the River Aire.

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Touring cars were transformed into ambulances

7:30am Thursday 14th January 2010

This is one of the motor ambulances which served the Keighley War Hospital and its auxiliaries between 1916 and 1919.

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Top hats mixed with flat caps

7:30am Thursday 7th January 2010

To commemorate the Coronation of George V, in 1911, top-hatted Keighley aldermen and notabilities, assisted by their wives, planted oaks in Lund, Devonshire and Victoria parks.

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Writing was on the ball for this team

8:00am Wednesday 30th December 2009

Mr Geoffrey Foster, of Steeton — who appears second from the right on the front row — has supplied this photograph of the Junior XI football team at Silsden County Secondary School during the 1962-63 season.

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Redundant toys were hung on trees

7:37am Wednesday 23rd December 2009

This crammed group almost certainly represents a wartime Christmas party at the Woodbine Day Nursery, in Skipton Road, intended primarily for the children of mothers on war work. If it was in 1944, Father Christmas was being played by Dr H M Holt, Keighley’s medical officer of health.

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Simple but cheerful old-time mill party

7:44am Thursday 17th December 2009

The camaraderie of old-time mill life is evident in this simple but cheerful little Christmas party, above, at John P Heaton and Co Ltd, wool combers and spinners, of Low Mills, Keighley, in 1960.

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Importance of displaying wares at new Co-op

7:10am Thursday 10th December 2009

Displaying its wares attractively was obviously important at the Broomhill branch of the Keighley Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd soon after its opening in 1928.

Picture postcard photographer emptied cottages

8:12am Thursday 3rd December 2009

A postcard photographer setting up his tripod a century or so ago was enough to bring everybody out of their cottages at Scar Top, next to Ponden Reservoir.

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