THIS stone cart and team was photographed in Cavendish Street a century or so ago.
It was presumably posed so as to provide an uncluttered background, thereby offering a view of one of Keighley’s secondary streets rarely recorded, in this case Henry Street.
The building on the left was the United Methodist Free Church.
It opened for worship in 1868 and closed in 1937.
The building then took on a new lease of life as the headquarters of the Keighley squadron of the Air Defence Cadet Corps during the Second World War.
The gardens of the premises on the right have since proved invaluable for car parking.
Since 1938, the far end of this vista has been blocked off by the mighty red-brick bulk of the Ritz ‘super cinema’.
It originally seated 1,500 and boasted a cafe open for ten-and-a-half hours a day, a car park and a staff of “nearly forty”.
The photograph has been supplied by Kevin Seaton, of Bradford Road, Riddlesden.
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