HERE is another of Keighley’s lost vistas, its whole right-hand side now dominated by the multi-storey car park.
In the right foreground, buses for Blackpool, Morecambe, Keswick and even Scotland used to depart from outside the stylish ‘art deco’ bus station offices with their overhead display of daffodils.
Beyond, a corner of the Hippodrome theatre, demolished in 1961, can be seen. This had replaced an earlier Queen’s Theatre in 1900, and in its heyday had hosted many celebrities especially during the Second World War when – thanks to a National Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts – the Royal Carl Rosa Opera Company had performed seven different operas in six days in 1942.
Farther back are the double-shop premises of stationers Ryley and Sons, then the Cavendish Hotel, and dimly seen down Lawkholme Lane the wooden structure boldly announcing Joseph Green Ltd, timber importers, which provided something of a landmark for many years.
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