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Edwardian splendour of Haworth Methodist Chapel

7:32pm Thursday 7th March 2013

Here in all its Edwardian splendour is the Primitive Methodist Chapel in Mill Hey, Haworth.

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Oxenhope as an industrial community

9:00pm Thursday 21st February 2013

Seen here in the earlier 20th century, this view of the centre of Oxenhope is a graphic reminder that, far from being rather fashionably residential as now, this was primarily an industrial community.

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Riddlesden man's garden wrecked by falling wall

12:00pm Tuesday 19th February 2013

A Riddlesden couple’s back yard has been wrecked after part of a stone wall holding up a ten foot-high embankment collapsed.

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Coronation streets on view in Keighley

4:27pm Thursday 7th February 2013

This was Beech Mills, Keighley, decorated with typical enthusiasm for the Coronation of King George VI in May, 1937. The photograph has been supplied by Mr Grenville Shuttleworth, of Nessfield Road, whose wife’s aunt, Caroline or Carrie Triggle, stands on the left at the back.

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Down memory lane at the Co-op

12:00pm Sunday 3rd February 2013

The Keighley Industrial Co-operative Society Limited, founded in 1860, was contemplating a shop in Worth Village by 1871, and this is how it looked 30 or so years later – a large store taking nearly £200 a week (in 1900 money) in groceries alone. In 1891, in a town still lacking a public library, the Co-op had even opened a Worth Village reading room.

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Horse power does the trick for Keighley deliveries

6:06pm Thursday 24th January 2013

This spectacular haulage team is a dramatic reminder of the days when the Midland Railway Company employed horses and carters to make Keighley deliveries.

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What a curtain call for Keighley’s Hippodrome Theatre

9:54am Friday 11th January 2013

Bearing the scars of having been carried around in a wallet for over half a century, this photograph was found by Mr Keith Whitaker, of Cherry Tree Rise, Long Lee, among the effects of his late brother Peter, who appears third from the right.

Club had best site in town

1:58pm Thursday 3rd January 2013

Centre stage in this century old view of ‘Skipton Road End’ at Silsden, by postcard publisher T Turner of Skipton, stands the impressive new Silsden Conservative Club.

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Christmas for paupers was not so bleak

6:20pm Thursday 27th December 2012

Lacking any old photographs of the Keighley Workhouse – now desirable Hillworth Village up Oakworth Road – this painting by the late Stanley R Boardman from his 1920s Boy series provides a graphic alternative.

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