Women’s Land Army page International Women’s Day Chicken hatchery worker (not actually in the Land Army): Early Life: Nesta was born on the 16th April 1925 on Fell Lane, Keighley. Her father was a business man running a market stall in Keighley. They moved to Riddlesden not long after Nesta was born where she … Read more
This is a guest post connected with our work on Keighley’s Supplementary Volume, under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project explains the reason for adding more names and the process by which the roll of honour … Read more
This is a guest post connected with our work on Keighley’s Supplementary Volume, under the proposal to add further names in 2024, the centenary of the original roll of honour. Supported by the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund, our project explains the reason for adding more names and the process by which the roll of honour … Read more
The Supplementary Volume was conceived in 1997 and completed in 1998 because the custodians of the original roll of honour decided that the book was too valuable to add more names so many years after that book was created. A decision was made to create a new book to display the two new names. This … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. As a child, Edward Darcy had been under the care of the Keighley Union Guardians before he served in the Great War. Edward and his brother James Darcy were the sons of William Darcy, a … Read more
Local war memorials page Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour A framed and glazed roll of honour for Keighley Union Workhouse. This is currently in the care of Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley. It was unknown for many years until recently when it was discovered amongst some paintings in their archives. It wasn’t with the other … Read more
Local war memorials page Cross Roads gets a new(-ish) war memorial! After six years of searching, finding, badgering and begging, we finally managed to get the Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School war memorial in it’s new home next to the main Bocking, Cross Roads and Lees war memorial, which is inside the bowling club … Read more