THIS gaunt old building was originally a school connected with Upper Green Congregational Chapel, seen on the right, whose worshippers entered through a yard beyond the archway on the left.
Set back from High Street on the site now occupied by the Salvation Army, this historic corner of Keighley was demolished in 1964.
Upper Green Chapel had been opened in 1821 by Keighley Independents, forerunners of the Congregationalists and now the United Reformed Church. It had been threatened with demolition in 1938 during the Westgate clearance scheme, which claimed an adjacent historic Friends' Meeting House.
Keighley's television actress, the late Mollie Sugden, had gained youthful experience at Upper Green, appearing in 1931 in an operetta called Princess Chrysanthemum given by children of the Sunday School. The smallest child on stage, she played Saucer-Eyes, the Wizard Cat, who "caused much amusement by her antics".
The Keighley News of 1931 showed remarkable prescience by singling her out as "from the standpoint of the audience the best performance".
The photograph was taken by the late Harold Horsman, a local Associate of the Royal Photographic Society, who deliberately recorded the changing face of Keighley during the 1960s and 1970s.
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