"THE weather here is wretched and rained all the holiday", complained the sender of this postcard at the end of Keighley Parish Feast week in 1912. "It's been miserable".
We are looking from Oakworth Road towards the bottom of Fell Lane and the site now occupied by the Queen Elizabeth Court Anchor Homes and Trinity Church. The chapel seen here was the original Knowle Park Congregational Mission opened in 1897.
This owned a piece of ground behind the wall, one of the many chapel bodies being a garden committee, which had problems with Sunday School scholars "walking on the garden, and plucking flowers". The huts just visible beyond the lamp-post show where, in 1911 in lieu of an increase in salary, the caretaker had been allowed to keep a few hens.
In 1908 Keighley Corporation had proposed putting a urinal on the corner of Fell Lane and Oakworth Road. This occasioned the formation of a chapel emergency committee, which was shortly able to report its cancellation "owing to the opposition of the residents and property owners in the neighbourhood"!
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