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interviews Edwardians
Online Contains interview given by Mr S Percy. From
Keighley. Born 1892. Final occupation, Co-op grocery manager. Education Keighley Boys' Grammar School Keighley Schools Revisited Right Honorable Viscount Halifax officially opened the new Greenhead premises of the Drake and Tonson's School, previously located in Strawberry Street and soon to be known as Keighley Girls' Grammar School. Down Memory Lane With Keighley historian Ian Dewhirst thisisbradford.co.uk From Pigot's Directory of 1829: Academies & Schools, Berry Ann and Catton (ladies' boarding) High street Dewhirst David (commercial) Old Bridge street Grammar School, Keighley-Rev. Thomas Plummer, head master; Thomas Swinbourn Carr, second do. Metcalfe Edward, (boy's day) Chapel lane National School (girl's) Mill hill; Susannah Illingworth, mistress Sharman Elizabeth (ladies' day and boarding) Skipton road Entertainment Keighley Hippodrome Interior Photograph Managers Keighley Hippodrome 1910,Tom Barrasford -Bernard Beard 1937
Keighley used to have eight cinemas, Russell Street - Market Street - Oxford Hall - Cosy Corner - Palace - Picture House - Regent, Skipton Road, where the Town Hall Livery Stables used to be. - The Ritz/ABC Cinema, Alice Street cinematreasures.org Keighley Show In 1842 John Greenwood Sugden, son of William Sugden of Eastwood House offered a prize for the best bred pig to men in his employment, this was to try to keep the men out of the pubs and beer houses. The following year the first Annual Keighley show was held. Pig-breeding, was a popular working-class hobby of the time - the Large White Yorkshire was perfected by Joseph Tuley, an Exley Head weaver. Other awards given by the well known business men of Keighley: The Sir Bracewell Smith Cup The Sir W Prince-Smith Cup The Prince-Smith & Stell Silver Cake Basket The Prince-Smith & Stell Silver Vase Before moving to the present site at Marley, the show was held in Victoria Park, and before that, on Showfield opposite Cliffe Castle, now built over. The Nomads (well, they will be history one day) The Nomads Insurance Man, an Alan Bennett film, about Franz Kafka as a young man. Scenes were filmed in a tannery in Keighley. thisisbradford.co.uk Poor & General Living Keighley Poor Law Union and Workhouse Life under the Poor Law by Edith Booth of Keighley boltonrevisited.org.uk Keighley Union Workhouse & Infirmary Holycroft, & Fell Lane, Keighley 1891 census genuki.org.uk Keighley people in Workhouses in other towns: Clitheroe 1881
Founded in May 1907 as Keighley Town Mission to the Sick and Needy at 1, Rook Street (opposite Eagle street off Highfield lane now Rosemount Walk Flats) then the home of Miss Haigh. keighleyblind.org
Slavery, Petition from Keighley for Abolition of Journal of the House of Lords: british-history.ac.uk Vaccinations Acts of 1840 and 1853. thisisbradford.co.uk The Jay Street Gang Pdf A Keighley mans life story starting in the early 1900's Religion All Saints (1902-1909) Photo keighley.plus.com Church of the Nazarene, oakworth Rd Photo keighley.plus.com Congregational Church of Keighley. maggieblanck.com Holy Trinity Church, Lawkholme (1881) thisisbradford.co.uk churchplansonline.org Mission Church, Highfield (1878-1879) St. Andrew (1849) churchplansonline.org St. John the Evangelist, Ingrow (1840-1843) churchplansonline.org St. Mary the Virgin, Eastwood (1855) churchplansonline.org St Matthew, Braithwaite St Michael Bracken Bank St Paul, Parkwood St. Peter (1879-1881) See also Religion War Memorial Windows from Temple Street Methodist Chapel keighleysharedchurch.org.uk Churches in the upper Worth Valley clara.net/ron.hoggarth 1379 the plague arrived in Airedale Shipley History slhs.abelgratis.co.uk The Manor of Stanbury Stanbury conservation area, A fantastic tour of the village. bradford.gov.uk Pdf House of Commons Keighley Members 1885-1997 German airship "Hindenburg" Sarah Smith's Diary of her 1895 Trip to Yorkshire Keighley/Bingley Local Newspapers archiver.rootsweb.com The Yorkshire Spiritual Telegraph, was started at Keighley in 1855 In 1782, a gigantic child, whose name was Isaac Butterfield, born at Keighley near Leeds, Feb. 20, 1781, was exhibited at the cane-shop in Spring Gardens. In November 1782, he measured (according to the advertisement in the public papers 3 feet in height, 13 inches round his arm, 2 feet 2 inches round his thigh, 16 inches across his shoulders, and weighed near a hundred weight. The child died in Spring Gardens Feb. 1, 1783 Flooding June 1594 September 2nd 1824, the inhabitants on the banks of the river Aire were greatly alarmed by the disruption of a bog at Crow-hill, above Haworth, in a wild part of the county of York, adjoining to Lancashire, which kept the water of the river Aire in such a turbid state, that for some time it could not be used either for culinary or manufacturing purposes. "Crow-hill, the scene of this phenomenon, is about nine miles from Keighley and six from Colne, at an elevation of about 1000 feet above the former place. The top of the moor which is nearly level, is covered with peat and other accumulations of decayed vegetables of a less firm texture; the whole appeared saturated with water, and in most places trembled under the tread of the foot. The superfluous water at the east end of the moor drained into small rivulets at the bottom of a deep glen or gill, down a precipitous range of rocks, which presented the appearance of a gigantic staircase. This rivulet passes down the valley to Keighley, and enters the Aire, near Stockbridge, about a mile below that town. At the distance of about five hundred yards from the top of the glen, the principal discharge seems to have taken place: here a very large area of about one thousand two hundred yards in circumference, is excavated to the depth of from four to six yards; and at a short distance from this chasm there is a similar excavation, but much less in extent. These concavities have been emptied, not only of their water, but also of their solid contents. A channel about twelve yards in width and seven or eight in depth, has been formed quite to the mouth of the gill, down which as most amazing quantity of water was precipitated with a violence and noise of which it is difficult to form an adquate conception, and which was heard to a considerable distance. Stones of an immense size and weight were hurried by the torrent more than a mile. It is impossible to form any computation of the quantity of earthy matter which has been carried down into the valley; but that it is enormous is evident from the vast quantities deposited by the torrent in every part of its course. This destructive torrent was confined within narrow bounds by the high glen through whcih it passed, until it reached the hamlet of Pondens, where it expanded over some corn fields, covering them to the depth of several feet; it also filled up the mill-pond, choking up the water-course, and thereby putting an entire stop to the works. A stone bridge was also nearly swept away at this place, and several other bridges in its course were materially damaged; and it is a remarkable circumstance, that it was not fatal to life in a single instance. The torrent was seen coming down the glen before it reached the hamlet by a person who gave the alarm, and thereby saved the lives of several children, who would otherwise have been swept away. The torrent at this time presented a breast of seven feet high. The track and extent of this inundation of mud may be accurately traced all the way from the summit of the hill to the confluence of the rivulet with the Aire, by the black deposit which it has left on its banks. The first bursting of the bog took place at six o'clock in the evening; and another very considerable discharge occurred on the following day, about eight in the morning, and it is highly probable that other extensive portions of the bog will, from time to time hereafter, be discharged into the Aire in a similar manner. No human being was on the spot to witness the commencement of this awful phenomenon, and of course we cannot arrive at an absolute degree of certainty as to its cause; the most probable one is the bursting of a water-spout." 14/07/1900 "Bradford was always susceptible to heavy rain. In its bowl of hills, with only one flat way out, to the north, and with only the narrow beck to cope with flooding, the three-year-old city was not yet equipped with the sort of drains that could cope with a downpour - particularly the sort of downpour which was brewing up during the morning of Thursday, July 14, 1900. Like the great storm of 1968 - which also happened in July - the first inkling of trouble came from up the Aire Valley. There was a cloudburst over Rombalds Moor and the village of Morton was badly damaged when Morton Beck burst its banks, sending torrents of water on a destructive rampage down to the River Aire. At Oxenhope, farmer William Smith was ‘struck speechless’ in his house by lightning. He was luckier than the four cows at Wilsden which were killed in their field. More animals died at Allerton. Humans, too, were among the casualties - 21 in all, in Leeds, Dewsbury, Keighley, Ripponden, Wakefield and Otley October 1967 Streets in Stockbridge flooded from the River Worth The
meaning of local place names The Airedale heifer owned by Mr. Slingsby, of Riddlesden Hall, was killed, He had had 400 guineas offered for it and half the proceeds by exhibiting it in various towns. It weighed 4 3/4 stone per quarter, 16 lbs. to stone, and measured from its nose to the stump of its tail 11 ft. 10 in. The Inn at Riddlesden is named after it. Crime and Punishment SPRING ASSIZES. MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
LEEDS, APRIL 1. CROWN COURT. - (Before Mr. Justice QUAIN.) Richard
Hargreaves Tillotson and Thomas Moffit were indicted for a robbery
with violence. Mr. Thornber prosecuted, and Mr. Waddy defended. The
prosecutor, Joseph King, was in the streets of Keighley at midnight on
the 21st of January, when the two prisoners violently assaulted him
and stole a tobacco box and 7s. from him. Moffit was seen to kneel
upon the prosecutor and to attempt to strangle him. The jury found
both the prisoners Guilty. His LORDSHIP, in passing sentence, said
this was the commonest crime in the West Riding. The persons who
committed these crimes seemed to be utterly reckless whether murder
resulted from their violence or not. Already in one case at these
Assizes a man had been found guilty of murder arising out of acts of
this description. He was determined to suppress this crime as far as
he possibly could. His Lordship sentenced Tillotson, who had been
twice previously convicted, to seven years' penal servitude and 20
lashes with the cat, and Moffit to five years' penal servitude and 20
lashes. Flodden
Field
Above
images taken from www.leopardmag.co.uk At the end of 1644,
a party of about 150 Royalist horses from Skipton; taking
advantage of the absence of Colonel Brandling who was in
command at Keighley, fell suddenly upon the Parliamentary quarters at
Keighley. They surprised the guards, got into Keighley town and
took near a hundred prisoners, sixty horses and other booty. Skipton Castle surrendered at last to the
Parliamentary forces in December, 1645, after an intermittent siege of
three years, of which unhappily no good records survive.
Recollections
of Alec Lovell at the Royal Ordnance Factory Steeton Nr. Keighley June
1941 - July 1945 BBC Hospitals
Taken from the Keighley News
Advances made in treatment
By Ian
Dewhirst
Here are some of the 13,214 servicemen who (not displayed), between 1915 and 1919, were treated in the Keighley War Hospital, at Morton Banks, and its auxiliaries at Victoria Hospital, the Fell Lane Infirmary, Spencer Street Congregational Sunday Schools and Skipton. Reality, rather than heroics, is suggested by their slogan: "Bliss in Blighty". The central War Hospital was housed in the Keighley and Bingley Fever Hospital, enlarged to accommodate 746 beds, many in temporary structures of asbestos and wood: J and K Wards held respectively 156 and 158 beds. Local doctors and surgeons were given officer ranks in the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Keighley public provided both practical and financial support. The majority of soldiers - 10,235 - arrived from overseas convoys, a total of 73 ambulance trains pulling into Keighley Railway Station, many during the night. There were 114 deaths, including 42 German prisoners-of-war in the great influenza epidemic at the end of the war. Advances were made in the treatment of tetanus, gas poisoning and gangrene, the Keighley War Hospital being visited by American surgeons studying developments in military surgery. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hospital area now covered with housing
By Ian
Dewhirst
Judging by the presence of the bungalows towards the top of the picture (not displayed), this aerial view of the Fell Lane Infirmary - latterly better known as St John's Hospital - probably dates from about 1960. Fell Lane curves across the top of the scene, with Holmewood Road branching off about the middle, whilst houses in Westburn Avenue appear in the bottom left-hand corner. The entire hospital site and the fields on its left are now occupied by housing. The Infirmary was built originally to serve the Keighley Poor Law Union. "Resolved", a Board of Guardians' minute of 1872 epitomizes its solid mid-Victorian character, "that the Slaters of the New Infirmary supply no slate except Westmorland and North Lancashire Slate and that no other slate be accepted." Subsequent additions included phthisis pavilions for consumptives in 1904 and a Nurses' Home in 1927. As an Auxiliary War Hospital during the Great War it housed 185 servicemen's beds and treated 1,052 military patients. Eventually specialising in geriatric and maternity cases, its last patients were transferred to the new Airedale General Hospital in 1970. St. John's was demolished three years later, just a century after its opening. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Taken from the Keighley News
By Ian
Dewhirst
Corner shopping days This archetypal corner shop, photographed (not displayed) about 1925, was in Fell Lane, Keighley, strategically situated opposite the entrance to the infirmary, the later St John's Hospital. At this time its proprietor was George Arthur Hodgson, whose young daughter, Nellie, is standing on the left. Subsequently it became Wignall's, then Hudson's, then more familiarly Ronnie's. Shopping habits around the earlier and middle decades of the 20th century are illustrated by the presence of three more shops higher up Fell Lane and a substantial Co-operative Society store lower down. The tin advertisements for Lyons' Tea and Wills's "Gold Flake" and "Wild Woodbine" cigarettes would now be collectors' items. Railings on top of the garden-walls of the adjoining houses would go to help the Second World War effort.
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