Oakworth Remembrance Trail launch event.
7:00 pm in Oakworth Village Hall on Thursday 30th of October 2025.
Our Oakworth Remembrance Trail page. Comments made on the night.
We launched our Oakworth Remembrance Trail yesterday evening in front of about fifty people who attended. With us were Deputy Lieutenant David Pearson, Keighley Mayor Chris Herd, Keighley Army Cadets and Sea Cadets, Councillors Rebecca Poulsen and Luke Maunsell; from Keighley Town Council were Town Clerk Joe Cooney with Marketing and Communications Officer Elisabeth King, plus several members of the public and local volunteers.
Joe opened the event followed by Andy Wade who explained the reason for the trail, which is to show people where Oakworth’s fallen from both World wars lived, before they went off to war.
Two of Keighley’s Army Cadets very kindly read out the stories of two of the Oakworth men to the audience.
There are 96, A3 boards placed on lamp posts at or near the homes of these 96 Oakworth men and we invite people to read them and scan the QR Code to read their stories on the Men of Worth website at our Remembrance Trail page linked above. This page has a zoomable map of the trail showing board locations and each man’s name is listed as a link to their biography page. The boards will be displayed until the end of November 2025 and we really hope people will visit the website and find out about these brave men, who gave their lives in the first and second world wars.
Oakworth Remembrance Trail is organised and funded by Keighley Town Council, with research done by The Men of Worth Project, assisted by Keighley Army Cadets and several local volunteers. Refreshments were also provided by KTC.
