VIEWS like this used to appear on postcards entitled A bit of old Keighley.
We are looking down the North Beck towards the parish church, whose tower is the only surviving feature.
Despite its apparent picturesqueness, this cluttered locality disappeared during a between-the-wars clearance of the Damside and Westgate area.
The name Quebec Bridge possibly commemorated General Wolfe’s victory in 1759. Its position in the middle of such dense housing gave it an almost folklore quality.
Its demolition in June, 1934, merited a poignant description in the Keighley News: “To the very last it resisted the efforts of the demolishers.
“A chain was passed round it and when the lifting operation began, the bridge lifted bodily and hung in the air for several seconds before collapsing a heap of stones into the North Beck, whose narrow banks it had spanned for years.”
Its name at least is perpetuated in one of the high-rise flats near the site – Quebec House.
The photograph has been supplied by Mr Kevin Seaton, of Bradford Road, Riddlesden.
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