Around 2009, David Kirkley and Jan Rotherham founded a heritage group with the aim of preserving photos and memorabilia from ALL schools in the Keighley area for the benefit of future generations. David sadly passed away suddenly in March 2023. The collection was kindly gifted to Keighley Local Studies Library at the start of 2024. We thought that this archive needed to be shared and the best way to achieve this would be to hold a reunion, starting with Highfield School.

So, anyone who went to Highfield School between 1912-2000, please come along and join us! See if you can spot yourself on a photo in our display, your friends, your parents or even your grandparents.

Along the way you will find out which teachers were the dinner ladies’ favourites and were rewarded with extra chips, also who has confessed to flooding the school 4 times!