THIS view over the Greengate area provides a smoky reminder of the time when Keighley was a busy industrial town.
Here are more than a dozen mill chimneys of various sizes.
This part of town accommodated a litany of factories – Greengate Mills, Walk Mills, Cabbage Mill, Hope Mill, Wellington Foundry, Crown Works, Cyclops Works, Britannia Works – housing a plethora of engineers and millwrights, brass and iron founders, worsted manufacturers and makers of washing and wringing machines.
The photograph was supplied by Mrs Margaret J Palmer, of Frinton-on-Sea, Essex, whose father and grandfather ran the Cavendish Street photography firm of Hall and Siggers from 1909.
“My father was in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War,” she wrote, “and was involved with taking aerial photographs in Bethune”, which may have influenced the somewhat aerial feel of this view.
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