A LEDGARD bus marked ‘private’ turns right from the top of Cavendish Street on a wet and thoroughly miserable-looking day.
This scene can be dated to the mid-1950s, as the first of two Technical College buildings appears under construction on the left.
Designed by county architect Hubert Bennett, this qualified by 1959 for inclusion in the West Riding volume of Nikolaus Pevsner’s The Buildings of England series. He thought it: “A building of moderate size and wholly up-to-date style. Stone and glass, of pleasing appearance.” It is currently earmarked for demolition.
The boy crossing the road on the left, in his neat raincoat and cap, would have been a pupil at the nearby Keighley Boys’ Grammar School.The substantial bus shelter behind him was one of several dotted about this part of town, as the then bus station could not accommodate all the suburban routes.
This is another photograph from Kevin Seaton’s collection.
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