As part of our research we have looked into the Keighley and District War Memorials. Of 56 war memorials for the town, 15 are in storage and 8 are categorised as lost. We will add details of these memorials as and when we have completed our research into them. Several war memorials also exist in the villages in the Worth Valley.
Keighley War Memorials:
Conservation work carried out on Keighley War Memorial by Keighley Town Council.
Keighley – South African War (Boer War) memorial
Parish of Morton Roll of Honour.
Morton Memorial Institute.
All Saint’s Church war memorials
St Andrews Church Great War memorial
St Anne’s Church war memorial, Keighley.
St Barnabas Church roll of honour, Thwaites Brow, Keighley.
Ingrow War Memorial (outside St. John’s Church)
St. Mark’s Church, Utley.
St John’s Church roll of honour, Ingrow, Keighley
St. Paul’s Church roll of honour, Keighley (in St. Andrew’s Church)
St. Peter’s Church roll of honour, Keighley
Steeton and Eastburn war memorial
Keighley Memorials on display at Cliffe Castle Museum:
Temple Street War Memorial and Stained Glass windows.
Keighley Memorials held in storage by Cliffe Castle Museum:
Albert Street Baptist Church.
Devonshire Street Congregational Church.
Exley Head Methodist Church.
Fell Lane Wesleyan Sunday School.
Keighley Sunday Circle.
Keighley Union Workhouse.
Lund Park Wesleyan Chapel.
Marlborough Street Congregational Mission.
St. James’ Church (not found on a visit to Cliffe Castle Museum storage – search pending.)
Sun St. Methodist Church, First and Second World War memorials.
Temple Street Methodist Church Memorial windows – (On permanent display in Cliffe Castle.)
Temple Street Methodist Church Board – (On permanent display in Cliffe Castle.)
Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel.
Worth Methodist Chapel.
Keighley Memorials believed to have been lost:
Ancient Order of Foresters.
Holy Trinity Church.
Ingrow and Hermit Hole Conservative Club.
Keighley Albion Cycling Club. (This memorial may still exist)
Keighley Cooperative Society.
Knowle Park Congregational Church.
Lund Park Wesleyan Chapel Window.
Men of George Hattersley and Sons Ltd.
Pilot Officer C. M. Handley R.A.F.
Prudential Assurance Company.
The list of lost war memorials from the Imperial War Museum’s records, was originally 11 in number, but we identified the DEVONSHIRE STREET Memorial from it’s description as being one already in storage with Cliffe Castle Museum.
We also rescued the TEMPLE STREET memorial board, which had been left out on a Keighley street by unknown persons in 2015. We later donated it to Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, where they already held the stained glass windows from this chapel on display.
The other ‘lost’ Keighley memorial that was recently found, was INGROW COUNCIL SCHOOL WW1 and was discovered by a staff member in a storage room at Ingrow Primary School in 2014, and now occupies a prominent place within the school building. The staff very kindly brought this memorial along to show at the 2016 Keighley Armed Forces Day event.
Worth Valley Memorials:
Slack Lane Baptist Church war memorial:
We were asked to find a new home for the war memorial at Slack Lane Baptist Church. In 2018 we negotiated with Oakworth Village Trust to become the new custodians of the war memorial and it was installed on the wall in the village hall later that year.
Recently however, we have been told that the Trust members have removed it from the wall and it’s whereabouts are not clear. This is along with several other war memorials which were on the wall alongside it.
Oakworth’s new ‘Centenary of the Great War’ roll of honour:
The new centenary roll of honour for Oakworth was created from over twenty years of research of the people of the village who served in the Great War. It was unveiled in 1919 and is now on permanent public display at Oakworth Village Hall.
Haworth – Grand United Order Of Oddfellows.
We assisted in the transfer of this roll of honour from the Oddfellows, into the care of Wyedean Weaving, a local textile manufacturer who make military accoutrements and have many military connections and customers. They are based in Haworth and are the perfect people to take care of this unique local roll of honour. After extensive conservation work funded by Wyedean along with a grant from the War Memorials Trust, the roll of honour was unveiled with pride of place in their boardroom, in November 2018.
Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School roll of honour.
We organised the creation of this new memorial from scratch after the original had disintegrated and the photos had been placed into an archive box. The staff at Keighley library discovered them and several local people gave their time to make a new framed memorial which was installed in Cross Roads Park memorial building, alongside the main Lees, Bocking and Cross Roads War Memorial.
Haworth Public Prize Band.
A framed and glazed list of names of the Haworth Prize Band band members who had served.
We were informed about this memorial by local men Jens Hislop and Steven Wood who re-discovered it at the Band rooms in Haworth and very kindly passed this information on to us.
