KEIGHLEY has had two Bridge Inns.
This one, prominently extolling Bentley’s Yorkshire Beers, was in Bridge Street.
It is seen here shortly before its demolition in 1938 – house furnishers Wright Brothers next door are displaying a notice of their compulsory removal to a new address.
The lamp standard on the extreme left supports a litter bin advertising Aspro, a popular painkiller.
The Bridge Inn was not the only Keighley hostelry to fall victim to the town’s between-the-wars development.
It also claimed the Bay Horse and the Angel, where early Baptists had met in an upper room, and most notably the 18th century Fleece Inn down Low Street, a relic of coaching days including a door found to have had at different times no less than eight keyholes. This made way for a Marks and Spencer ‘super store’ opened in 1935.
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