One of town’s under-appreciated gems

7:10am Thursday 9th July 2009

A man tends a grave in Utley Cemetery a century or so ago, in front of a chapel since demolished.

Four-square programme led to BB badges

7:43am Thursday 18th June 2009

Former volunteer youth worker Charlie Bhowmick has supplied this group in their Boys’ Brigade hats at the top of Upper Hird Street, waiting to join in the Gala procession in 1971.

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Booted and suited for Blackpool

7:10am Thursday 11th June 2009

When in the 1930s a young Keighley apprentice toolmaker called Hartley Boardman used to go to Blackpool with his mates, they celebrated with a portrait photograph.

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Exhibition lead to doubling bonus

7:30am Thursday 4th June 2009

At the end of November in 1949 there was a “Keighley for Britain” exhibition in the Drill Hall, its post-war objects being to “stimulate the people of Keighley to greater production and to more stringent saving”, while showing “at a glance almost” what Keighley industries were capable of.

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Portrait back from New Zealand

7:41am Thursday 28th May 2009

This portrait of a cup-winning football team at Haworth Council School in the 1943-44 season has come back from New Zealand. Geoffrey Smales, the boy standing on the far left, has sent it via his brother-in-law, Mr Malcolm Walsh, of Westburn Avenue, Keighley.

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Can you name trio in this band

7:40am Thursday 21st May 2009

Here is another of Keighley’s many former dance bands, supplied by Mr Paul Allen, of Epworth Place, Oakworth. His father, the late George Allen, played in Billy Normington’s Elite Dance Band.

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Impression of Dickensian times

7:36am Thursday 14th May 2009

This atmospheric view, dating well back into the Victorian era, gives a good impression of what High Street — one of Keighley’s main traditional thoroughfares — looked like in Dickensian times.

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Patrons and passers-by in Cavendish picture

7:58am Thursday 7th May 2009

Photographing the new Cavendish Hotel in the early 1900s was obviously an event which attracted patrons and passers-by into the picture.

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Preparing girls for Christian citizenship

7:23am today Thursday 30th April 2009

Recent Memory Lane photographs, showing children’s day on the Monday of Keighley’s wartime Wings for Victory Week in 1943, have prompted Mrs Connie Hensman, of Fell Lane, to unearth her own mementoes of the Wednesday of that same week, when Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal marked a fundraising indicator in the Town Hall Square.

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Tableaux spanned British history

7:20am Thursday 23rd April 2009

A Keighley highlight for King Edward VII’s Coronation Day on August 9, 1902, was a procession of 30 historical tableaux organised by local Sunday Schools.

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