As we reach this particular poignant Remembrance Sunday on the 11th November, marking one hundred years since the First World War armistice, we would like to share some information on the Keighley Roll of Honour for 1914-1918. The Keighley Roll is a magnificent manuscript and situated in Keighley Library, upstairs in the Local Studies Department.…
https://www.menofworth.org.uk Keighley’s Men of Worth Project researches local people who served the country in wartime. It is actively run by project directors Ian Walkden and Andy Wade. They are currently looking to put together a bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund Grant. They will be holding an initial meeting for interested persons to get…
This was a published list in the Bradford Daily Telegraph of all the Keighley men who volunteered in the early part of the war, before the introduction of the Military Service Act. A copy is available to view in Keighley Local Studies Library, but can also be viewed here: Keighley’s Gallant Sons
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Join Keighley and District Local History Society and Andy Wade from ‘Men of Worth’ project who will be telling the story of what happened to the men who went to War from one street in Parkwood. Wednesday February 14th, Keighley Local Studies Library Entry from 7.00pm at…
At this time of year as our thoughts turn to Remembrance we reproduce an extract from ‘Ilkley and the Great War’ by Caroline Brown and Mark Hunnebell’ , about Eric Wilkinson from Ilkley, one of the many hundreds of thousands of men who died in 1917 at Passchendaele Ridge. In his diary entry of May…
The Third Battle of Ypres and later Passchendaele, were fought in 1917 and ran from July 31 to November 10. This was the third time this area had been fought over during the war. It would be fought over on two more occasions before the war ended. This exhibition has details of the battles in…
Still time to see the excellent exhibition by ‘The Men of Worth Project’ currently in Keighley Local Studies Library about the Arras Offensive! This ‘big push’ was intended to move the Germans back from their entrenched positions around Arras to their own entrenched Hindenburg line and it cost the lives of many local soldiers in…
Andy Wade from Keighley’s Men of Worth project has started to produce a series of articles about Keighley men who fought in the Somme. You can access the articles here.
In 2011 military historians from the Men of Worth Project carried out a survey of all war memorials in the Keighley area removed from churches and other buildings because of their closure. One of these was from Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School. A photograph of the original memorial was included in an album in…
There will be a final opportunity to see the extraordinary and moving film ‘The Battle of the Somme’ in Keighley Local Studies library on Saturday November 19th at 10.00am before the DVD is returned to the Imperial War Museum. The Battle of the Somme documentary was seen by millions of people across the world in…
The next in the series of free events will take place in Eccleshill library. Richard Coomber from the http://www.shipleyww1.org organisation will be at the library on Saturday 24th September between 11.00am and 3.00pm with a database of local men who served in the First World War. Anyone who has photos or stories of family involved…
There will be another chance to see the Imperial War Museum’s Film, “The Battle of the Somme”, at Keighley Library’s Heritage Day, on Saturday 10th September at 11am. Free entry and all welcome.
A World War One event will take place at Bradford Local Studies Library on Saturday 3rd September. The event will feature a talk about Bradford men in the Battle of the Somme and will be accompanied by an exhibition by the Bradford World War One Group. Tricia Platts from the group and author of ‘Bradford in the Great…
To mark 100 years since the beginning of World War One, TSO have produced a carefully selected collection of official documents relating to the war. Dating from 1914 to 1927, the bibliography lists 100 key military, political and strategic documents published by the British government throughout this period. It includes original reports of key events and Gazette notices of awards and commemorations. Bradford…
