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Welcome to the Keighley history pages.

Click on image to see larger photo of Keighley Market


Researching  history and family trees is becoming very popular. Keighley could not have a better local historian than Ian Dewhirst MBE. His many books contain wonderful photographs of times gone by with notes that give us a good insight into what life was like. Mr. Dewhirst's books are usually available from Keighley Library and Reeds book shop.
Ian Dewhirst  revises his 32-year-old book A History of Keighley keighleynews.co.uk

There are a few web sites that provide useful information, we have attempted to gather sites that relate to Keighley and it's history here. If you know of a site, or have anything  that should be included, please email us

We would welcome any old photographs of the area that you have.
Potted Histories of Keighley
Keighley Web
thisisbradford.co.uk
maggieblanck.com
Early Keighley
Conservation Area Assessment Old maps of the town and good photographs of old buildings.
Church St. & Temple St. Conservation areas  arch.wyjs.org.uk

Useful research Sites
TheShipsList web site, online since August 1999, will help you find your ancestors on ships' passenger lists.
Years gone by
Domesday Book
The keighley Family
Feet of Fines of the Tudor period [Yorks]: part 2: 1571-96
Keighley 1646
Keighley1820
Keighley 1848
Keighley Manor House
Keighley Subsidy Rolls (Poll Tax) for the year 1379

Research & Archives
Keighley & District Local History Society
Keighley & District Family History Society
The Federation of Family History Societies
West Yorkshire Archaeology Service
GENUKI: Keighley
Yorkshire Ridings Society
The National Archives
Old Maps
Reminiscences of Ian Dewhirst MBE Pdf
Force 'Z' Survivors This website is written for the members of the Survivors Association, their families and friends. Its purpose is to inform, educate and help people to understand, the events of December 10th, 1941, and hopefully also serves to act as a tribute to the fallen men who went down with their ships on that fateful day.
Men of Worth This Wiki commemorates the men and women of Keighley and the Worth Valley who served our country in times of war.

Yorkshire History
Origins of Place Names domesdaybook.co.uk
Place names around Bingley geocities.com/rogerhall_1947
Yorkshire History     britannia.com

Books By Ian Dewhirst

A Century of Yorkshire Dialect: Selections from the "Transactions of the Yorkshire Dialect Society" 
A History of Keighley
Gleanings from Victorian Yorkshire 
Gleanings From Edwardian Yorkshire
In the Reign of the Peacemaker:
Keighley and District in Edwardian Photographs
Keighley at War:
Keighley in Old Picture Postcards 
Keighley in the 1930s and 40s 
More Old Keighley in Photographs 
The Story of a Nobody: A Working Class Life, 1880-1939 
Old Keighley in Photographs 
Scar Top: And other poems
The handloom weaver and other poems
Yorkshire Through the Years 
You Don't Remember Bananas
Victorian Keighley Characters














         
 
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