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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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General made an exceedingly good shot at bowls

7:10am Thursday 26th November 2009

This was the crowded scene in Old Main Street, at Bingley, in June of 1905, when Major General Sir H M Leslie Rundle came to unveil Boer War memorials in Bingley Town Hall and Parish Church.

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Music licence rejection led to return of tranquility

7:26am Thursday 19th November 2009

Older readers may remember at least the latter years of the kind of simple pleasures epitomised by this old postcard titled “Judson’s, Newsholme Dene.”

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Critical debate over cost of resident pony

7:47am Thursday 12th November 2009

Although not the clearest of old photographs, this one gives an unusual mundane view of Lund Park, Keighley, normally remembered through the picture-postcard prettiness of its Edwardian ornamental pond and rustic nooks.

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Legend carried out eccentric feats for bets

7:27am Thursday 5th November 2009

This is the face behind one of old Keighley’s legendary characters, Bull Jack.

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