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Characters from
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Bill O’th’ Hoylus End bracewel.demon.co.uk David Bates. Adviser to the England and Wales Cricket Board and the Institute of Groundsmanship. answers.com Joyce Beard: Fought for equal rights for men and women carers. Her legal action took her to the European Court which in 1993 found that the British government had been breaking the law. Charlie Bhowmick MBE For services to race and inter-faith relations in Keighley. A member of the Temple Street Methodist Church until it became a mosque. hindu.com Gordon Bottomley Poet & Playwright 1874-1948 litencyc.com Margaret Burton Actress theargus.co.uk Played : Mrs Tucker (a widow) in Bradford Drama Festival - Monday 6 to Saturday 11 May, 1963 Andrew Carnegie towntalk.co.uk  Alistair Campbell, Politician news.scotsman.com  John Tiplady Carrodus (1836-1895),
Granville Daniel Clarke, Artist. Born in Keighley and raised in Barnsley granvilledclarke.co.uk 
Robert Collyer - Blacksmith and Preacher Ilkley.org Jennett Evans
Trailblazing headmistress of Keighley Girls’ Grammar School
(1942-68) historytoherstory.org.uk Ellis Hall janets-families.org.uk
Ellis Hall (Hall family of Airedale and Craven) Two
Torches at Keighley present at the 'Flodden Muster' as a bowman.
Dougie Lampkin Indoor/outdoor Trials World Champion from
Silsden dougielampkin.co.uk
Mr. Middlebrook: If Mr. Leach does not hold his tongue I will have
him put out of the room.
In another incident he was approached by the Chairman of a meeting,
Mr. Snowden, because Leach was stood in the doorway shouting, Mr.
Snowden asked him to either go in or out of the room. Leach refused
and grabbed Mr. Snowden by the collar, there was a scuffle and Mr.
Leach was thrown on his back on the floor, much to the amusement of
the others.Mr. Leach: You will not, you can not Mr. Middlebrook: I will try Mr. Leach: You will have to get assistance Mr. Middlebrook: You are a shame and a disgrace to the town and to the Board. He had various occupations, he started off working as a handloom weaver, but then made his living from gambling and hawking. Later in life he served on many of Keighley's boards and was active in politics and was party to having the bridge over the railway built. One occupation of which was pie maker, hence the nick name. But he also kept a diary which provides some useful information on Keighley at that time. He also notes some long forgotten notoriety's. Paul Lad, Red from Kildwick, John Hey, commonly called Bonny Boy who was forever kicking up a disturbance with his wife in the Pin Fold: Samuel Smith commonly called Mucky Sam who threw Patrick Waterhouse over the battlement at Damside a depth of 5 yards and cut and wounded him dangerously. When Mr Leach grew more prosperous as a greengrocer he built Balmoral House in Skipton Road, where there is a stone inscription high in the wall. One of his wife's (he had three, but not at the same time) Sarah, her address is 31 Low Street for which in 1840 she paid £480 for a house and shop, she died 19 Aug. 1889. The premises were later sold in 1889 for £1950. In 1892 almost 78 he married his third wife, his housekeeper aged 35. Pie Leach died 13 Oct. 1893. His rather distinctive tombstone was designed and the epitaph written by himself, which is still in existence.
Lister, Thomas [1717-1779] Halifax clock
maker. Son of Elizabeth and William Lister, a Keighley clock maker.
Thomas's brother, John, also went on to be a clock maker. As the age
of 13, he was apprenticed to a Halifax clock maker. He lived at
Shepherd House, Lower Warley. He was church-warden at Luddenden
Church. He was famous for his long cased grandfather clocks – often
known as Luddenden Clocks – and examples can be seen at Shibden
Hall. Some of his clocks were installed locally, including Halifax
Parish Church. In 1738, he married Hannah Holroid. They had 2
children, Hannah and Thomas. His son followed him into the family
clock making business at Bull Green, Halifax Joseph Nowell built many masonry bridges and churches and towards the end of his life constructed canal and railway works. He became acquainted with Hiram Craven of Dockroyd near Keighley. They joined in the building of a bridge over the River Ouse at York which cost £50,000 and was opened for traffic in 1820. They also joined in the building of a bridge over the river at Linlithgow in Scotland. macc-cs.org.uk Walker Overend physician, born 1858,
Keighley whonamedit.com Gillett Sharpe was born in Keighley in 1781. Sharpe, overseer of the
poor in Keighley, was interviewed by Michael Sadler and his House of
Commons Committee on 6th June, 1832.
Timothy Taylor
Harry Hargreaves Thompson: Harry Tap: Born in Colne, came to Keighley in the 1840's as Ostler at the Crown Inn, Church Green, Keighley. Later keeping the Fleece Tap behind Low Street. It was here that he earned the nick name Harry at Tap, the name stuck and he was called this when he took over the Royal Oak. Here he founded the "Hen Pecked Club", which continued until Harry moved to the Kings Head in 1868. Later he owned the White Horse Brewery in Halifax Road. Harry died age 54 in 1877. His obituary read, " Commencing life with little or nothing he amassed a considerable fortune by diligence and shrewdness in business, and by always attending to his own affairs. Joseph Tulley Villy, Dr Francis. Physician & archeologist. He was an authority on local Roman sites and roads. Died 1940, his grave at Ingrow St. Johns is well worth a visit.
Abraham Wildman was born at Keighley, on the 13th of August, 1803, and was the son of Quaker parents, from whom he inherited the integrity and independence which he showed in several circumstances of his life. He early wrote verses, and was, for a while, the first relieving officer elected by the Board of Guardians for Keighley, then recently constituted a Union under the New Poor Law Act. Saltaire People
William Wright. Bill O' Th'Holus End. Born in 1836 he
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