HISTORIC pictures involving a well-known Keighley sweetshop have been uncovered following an article about the former soldier who ran it.

The Keighley News recently highlighted the First World War experiences of Keighley man William Moore.

Volunteer historians from Keighley’s Men of Worth Project carried out research that revealed he survived several years on the killing fields of France.

They received much of the information from Eric Binns, Private Moore’s nephew, who is 73 and has lived in Keighley all his life.

Mr Binns subsequently provided the Keighley News with pictures from his uncle’s belongings.

In 1916 Private Moore took part in the Battle of the Somme, one of the biggest battles of the First World War, after enlisting in the army the previous year.

After joining the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders he had been posted to France just months before the battle.

Private Moore survived the Somme and the following year received wounds to the hand and mouth at the Battle of Arras.

By April 1917, William was in hospital in Cambridge, and he was discharged from the army that November.

Two years later the 30-year-old former machine fitter and confectioner married 21-year-old Lilian Watmough and the pair lived in Stockbridge.

Soon afterwards William took over the newsagent’s shop at the top of Low Street – which is still open – and ran it for many years until his retirement. He died in 1980 at the age of 91.

Mr Binns, of Marriners Road, contacted the Men of Worth Project earlier this year soon after obtaining his uncle’s First World War discharge papers and some photographs.

One of the photographs shows a float at Keighley Gala with William Moore standing to the right of the picture.

Mr Binns said: “We think that his float for the sweet shop was sponsored by Mackintosh Sweets.”

“He owned the newsagents at the top of Low Street for many years after the war – in fact fact my mother helped him during the Second World War.

“I don’t know the year he sold it but it’s still a newsagents to this day.

“My uncle served in the Queens Own Cameron Highlanders and think he was gassed. As result he was discharged.