Monday February 5, ‘Rare post card scenes of Keighley’ a talk by Kevin Seaton at Keighley Local Studies library with Keighley and District Family History Society.
Meet from 7.00pm (please use side entrance on Spencer Street), talk starts at 7.30pm. Members £1.00, non-members £2.50.
Keighley Local Studies Library, January 8th, 7.00pm for 7.30pm start.
(Please use side entrance.)
In August 1876, seven members of the Keighley Board of Guardians were arrested and imprisoned in the Debtors’ Prison at York. Their crime was not cooking the books but determinedly opposing what they saw as an attack on the civil liberties of the individual by the Government. The attack was the attempted enforcement in their town of the Vaccination Acts of 1867 and 1871 which made all Guardians responsible for enforcing the vaccination of the children within their Union. The case of the Queen versus the Guardians of the Keighley Union came up at the High Court of Justice in London in November. The story is almost local legend and is the subject of regular study because of the national, as well as local debate and because of the popular support anti-vaccination attracted.
In Keighley there were near riotous scenes as well as the publication of broadsheets of verse and even carte-de-visite portraits.
The following records are taken from the Keighley Photographic Society, held at Keighley Library and the broadsheet is part of the library pamphlet collection.
Sylvia Valentine has made the most detailed and revealing study to date and has given talks across the country and is booked for talks in Canada in 2018.
Much of her original research was carried out using the resources of Keighley Local Studies Library and its fantastic archive.
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 this ‘offensive’ which was a major push to take the Passchendaele ridge where the village was before winter set in. The exhibition takes the form of 10 hanging banners on the library pillars.
One of the panels
Andy Wade from Men of Worth project said: ‘In this exhibition we show columns from the Keighley News of the day about local men serving in these battles and what was happening to them, interspersed with War Diary transcripts and images of the men, the battle conditions and other material we have found during our research. Please take…
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‘Going Off at a Tangent’ talk by historian Mary Twentyman with Keighley & District Family History Society
Monday 6th November
Keighley Local Studies library 7.00pm for 7.30pm. (Please use side entrance.)
Mary Twentyman uncovers delightful examples of the interesting people and events that can be uncovered by going off at a tangent from your own family research.
