This man was a candidate for addition to Keighley’s Supplementary Volume under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Click here to go to our main Heritage page Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project submitted 103 names for peer review to add them … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial This man was a candidate for addition to Keighley’s Supplementary Volume under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Click here to go to our main Heritage page Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project submitted 103 … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Private. 11th Battalion, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment (Sherwood Foresters.) Service no. 73372. Previously 7th Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment. Service no. 20181. Early life: Richard was born in the early part of 1898 and his birth was registered in Liverpool in the first quarter of the year. His parents were … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Arthur’s mother Margaret was in the workhouse in 1911 and we think Arthur spent time there as well, although he does not appear in any census for the workhouse. Private. 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Private. 8th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers. No. 21960. Early life: Horatio was born in late 1890 in Yeadon, to parents Harry and Edith Claughton. He was baptised on 15th February 1891 at St John’s Church, Yeadon. His father Harry was a Tin plate worker. They were living at 256, … Read more
Voluntary Aid Detachment page International Women’s Day Nurse, Voluntary Aid Detachment, St. John Ambulance Brigade. Early life: Isabella was born on the 17th of January 1886 and her birth was registered in the first quarter of the year in Keighley. Her parents were Richard and Martha Ellen Waller. She was baptised on the 6th … Read more
Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking war memorial Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School The Sunday School memorial would have been located in the old building on Halifax Road near Cross Roads. The building is still in use as a private business today, but when the Sunday School closed many years ago, the memorial was removed … Read more