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
Lance Corporal. 21st Battalion, Prince of Wales’ Own (West Yorkshire) Regiment. Service number 26975. Early life: Charles was born at Silsden on 7th February 1895 and his birth was registered at Skipton. His parents were Frank Stirk Green and Mercy Green. In the 1901 census he was six years old and living at 72, Bolton … Read more
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
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Richard Horsfall was in the Clarendon Street Children’s home which was attached to the Keighley workhouse in 1911. He would certainly have known Charles Horner and Richard Horner (who were unrelated) and Fred Firth who … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Richard Horner was in the Clarendon Street Children’s home which was attached to the Keighley workhouse in 1911. He would certainly have known Charles Horner (not related) and Fred Firth who were there at the … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Charles Horner was in the Clarendon Street Children’s home which was attached to the Keighley workhouse in 1911. He would certainly have known Richard Horner (not related) and Fred Firth who were there at the … Read more
Corporal, D Company, 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment. Service number: 1473, later 265061. Early life: George was born on September 17 1893 and baptised 7 years later at St Andrew’s Church, Keighley. His parents were Ramsden (a mechanic), and Emma Buckley and they lived on Hainworth Lane. At the age of 7 … Read more
This is one of a series of posts about local men named on the Keighley Union Workhouse roll of honour. Herbert Binns was living in Keighley’s Children’s Home aged 14 years in 1911. Early life: Herbert was born in the early part of 1897 in Keighley and his parents were Henry and Martha Ellen Binns. … 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
Lance Corporal. 1/5th London Regiment (Rifle Brigade). Service number 45415. Early life: James was born in 1896 with the birth registered in Keighley in the first quarter of the year. His parents were James and Margaret McCann. By 1901 he was 5 years old and living at 5, Leeds Street in Keighley with his parents … Read more