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Remembering banana company under Station Bridge in Keighley in 1920s

2:00pm Friday 14th June 2013

The late Stanley Dunn stands on the left, supervising the unloading of a consignment of bananas. He was a Keighley “West India and Canary Banana distributor” whose stock-in-trade used to be ripened under the arches of Station Bridge.

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Scartop Wesleyans prepare for sketch in 1930

8:00am Friday 7th June 2013

These jolly ladies of Scartop Wesleyan Chapel were performing a fund-raising sketch called “Our Trip to Blackpool” on a snowy Saturday night in 1930. It had been preceded by part-songs, solos and recitals, but the ‘Keighley News’ of the time thought this, with its quaint old dresses and Yorkshire dialect, “the tit-bit of the evening”.

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An annual excursion

7:30pm Thursday 30th May 2013

These children from Knowle Park Congregational Chapel at Keighley have just arrived at their destination on a pre-war summer evening trip.

A ghostly coronation

3:17pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

The presence of a line of background bunting suggests that this view up Low Street could have been photographed at the time of Edward VII’s Coronation in August of 1902.

Leading the procession in Sutton

12:00pm Friday 17th May 2013

These white-clad Morris dancers were waiting to lead a procession at the Sutton Football Club Gala in 1906.

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Edwardian curiosity...

4:05pm Thursday 9th May 2013

The Edwardian photographer has aroused the curiosity of these children outside Cullingworth Church. Oddly the boys have all moved closer while the girls are hanging back.

Traditionally bizarre cast

2:05pm Thursday 2nd May 2013

This was the rather bizarre cast of a play called ‘Benedicts Afloat’, performed by the Married Men’s Group of Silsden Kirkgate Methodist Church in March, 1939.

‘Vive Keighley’ in war-ravaged north of France

1:50pm Thursday 25th April 2013

This fine brick Keighley Hall, complete with our Borough coat-of-arms, is not actually in Keighley but at Poix-du-Nord in France.

The Black Bull in Haworth just after the Brontes

3:05pm Thursday 18th April 2013

Not looking markedly different from nowadays, this was the Black Bull Inn as photographed very shortly after the Brontes’ time in Haworth, with W Sugden dispensing his “wines &c”.

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Quiet times on Low Street

3:54pm Thursday 11th April 2013

Here is Low Street before pedestrianisation, with its succession of once-familiar names: Stylo shoes, Redmans Good Bacon Shop, Dewhurst butchers, Jays (“Yes! We do sell Everything for the home”). Upstairs beyond, barber James Berry plies his trade.