SOME parts of Keighley have witnessed wholesale changes in less than a century.

This view shows Chapel Lane in the 1920s, but its only surviving feature is the narrow road of deeply-rutted setts in the centre, leading towards the back of High Street.

The buildings to its right have been replaced by the approach to the bus garage and to its left by a car park for bus staff.

The prominent building on the right, in what was then Anvil Street, was the garage belonging to Keighley Brothers, motor haulage contractors, who had branched out into the charabanc craze following the Great War. At Easter in 1920, they ran outings to Morecambe, Windermere and Harrogate, Knaresborough and Ripon.

Later, they operated several regular bus services, including Keighley to Ilkley and a Keighley to Bradford express.

In 1928, however, Keighley Brothers were taken over by the expanding West Yorkshire Road Car Company Ltd, which thereby acquired not only their routes and fleet of 16 Leyland buses, but also their garage.

The following year, the West Yorkshire Road Car Company – which in 1932 would also absorb Keighley Corporation Tramways – bought adjoining land to develop what has ever since been the Keighley bus garage.