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The retouched old postcard

This heavily retouched old postcard shows Glen Lee from Park Lane when the area was still relatively rural.

It used to be called Hog Holes, but on June 30, 1877, 100 local residents ceremonially renamed it more elegantly Glen Lee.

After a tea they marched round their boundary led by the Hainworth Brass Band before gathering at the Hog Holes Beck outside the houses seen here on the left, at the present Glen Garth bus stop.

"Behind the old signboard bearing the words Hog Holes', which was suspended by a cord, was the new name Glen Lee'," runs a contemporary account.

A Miss Dixon of Green Head, after addressing the assemblage, "pulled the cord and down fell the long-derided name of Hog Holes'. Glen Lee' for the first time appeared and was greeted with cheers."

Two bottles of brandy were rather extravagantly broken in celebration and a group of boys allowed to burn the old sign and throw its ashes into the beck. The day finished with music and dancing.

Sadly the Reverend J Mitchell of Cullingworth, who had originally coined the name Glen Lee, had not lived to see it adopted.

And of course old customs die hard; 60 years later, Ordnance Survey maps were still saying Hog Holes Lane instead of Glen Lee Lane, and even now Hog Holes has not quite disappeared.

The photograph, from the collection of the late Clarence Rushworth, has been supplied by Kathleen Rushworth, formerly of Grafton Road, Keighley.

7:34am Thursday 3rd July 2008

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