A Remembrance Sunday service outside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Exley Head, Keighley, during the First World War
THIS MORE modest Remembrance Sunday service is being held outside the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Wheathead Lane, Exley Head – or it may show the dedication of the Second World War names on its War Memorial.
Three cadet buglers are sounding the ‘Last Post’.
Exley Head’s had been the first Great War Memorial in Keighley, unveiled at the beginning of October, 1920, after the local community had raised £60 for a polished granite cross in memory of Gunner J Raymond Clapham and Private Harold Whitfield.
Sadly three more names – J Fairfax Dean, Pearson Crossley and Douglas D Smith – had to be added after the Second World War.
This ceremony was snapped by the late Mr Herbert Auty, of neighbouring Westburn Avenue.
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