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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.

Summer on the streets

11:18am Friday 5th April 2013

The tram on the left dates this view of Utley as no later than 1924.

Early days in North Street, Keighley

2:47pm Thursday 28th March 2013

A very early Keighley photograph lurks behind this heavily re-touched old postcard view along North Street.

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Engineering at a premium in Keighley in 1950

2:37pm Thursday 21st March 2013

This was the unassuming garage of automobile engineers W F Scott and Co in Alice Street, Keighley, in about 1950.

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Silsden Picture Palace remembered

3:38pm Thursday 14th March 2013

The Silsden Picture Palace opened in 1912 on the site of the garage of the Silsden Motor Omnibus Company Limited, burned out the year before (see Memory Lane, December 13).