History

~ Keighley History ~

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Keighley history books and maps from Amazon

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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.towntalk.co.uk
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

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

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