THIS gaunt old building, Upper Green Congregational Chapel, was long a Keighley landmark off High Street.
It is seen here from behind, the clue to its location being the surviving premises glimpsed in the left background, near the bottom of West Lane. We are looking from Damside towards High Street and the site now occupied by the Salvation Army.
Upper Green Chapel had been opened in 1821 by Keighley's Independents, forerunners of the Congregationalists (now the United Reformed Church). It was threatened with demolition in 1938 during the Westgate clearance scheme which claimed an adjacent historic Friends' Meeting House, but survived until 1964.
The photograph was taken by the late Harold Horsman, an associate of the Royal Photographic Society, who during the 1960s and 1970s – a time of sweeping physical changes for Keighley – deliberately recorded the passing scene.
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