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History Group NewsUpdate to the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers ProjectAlthough intensive work on the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers concluded at the end of 2018, the website has continued to be updated as additional information has become available. The project has recently been given the Kildwick School pupil admissions records for the period 1918 to 1931. These have allowed the biographies of a number of the Volunteers to be updated with information about their childrens' school careers. Click here for details.
Some future historyWhen the social history of the CV-19 pandemic comes to be written I do hope that there will be a section that shows how our sense of humour did not desert us. Below, two of a series of updated 1930s-style railway posters sent to us by our good friends at the Keighley and District Digital Archive.
Would you like to contribute ?We are always pleased to hear about topics of historical interest that we might research - some of our most interesting articles have started out as suggestions made by visitors to this website. If you have any information on the history of Farnhill or Kildwick that you'd like to share with us, or would like us to investigate further, please email history@farnhill.co.uk. Even if all you have is a short personal anecdote about life in our two villages, please write. We might be able to include your contribution on our Anecdotes & Snippets page. |
A Selection from our ArchiveEach month we aim to display a different selection of items from our archive of photographs and documents. Do you have any interesting items to contribute to the archive ? |
New and Updated Items
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Group photos project
In 1967 pupils from Farnhill Methodist Sunday School gained second place in the West Yorkshire district scripture examinations. Three members gained first class certificates. A photograph of these pupils, their teachers, and local officials, was taken on the seat at the junction of Grange Road with Farnhill Main Street. Click here for details. |
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Farnhill and Kildwick 100 years ago
It was summer holidays 100 years ago in Farnhill and Kildwick, but that didn't mean that the weather was summery. In fact, very much the opposite.
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Mysteries
This month we have a photograph of the churchyard and ask: when were the gravestones cleared from in front of the church, and what happened to the stones ? Read the Mysteries Page.
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Other recent additions and updates
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Paintings and Drawings of Farnhill and Kildwick
First posted 27/06/2020
The History Group archive contains a number of scans of paintings and drawings of the two villages – some of them quite old, others more recent. Many are unsigned and/or undated. This slideshow contains a selection of them, in approximate chronological order. Click the image opposite to view. |
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Kildwick and Farnhill Brass Band (1866-1936)
Updated 29/05/2020
Another update to our piece on the Kildwick and Farnhill Brass Band. This update includes some more information on the early history of the band.
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The Road from Keighley to Skipton
- A journey of 1900 years
Updated 29/05/2020
From the Romans to the present day, the road from Keighley to Skipton has changed considerably. The route you would have taken depends on when you were travelling.
This update
on the development of the road between Keighley and Skipton includes
a photograph of one of the Keighley to Kendal Trunk Road mile-posts
and a map of the 1976 proposal for Aire Valley Trunk Road.
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The Harrisons in Australia
First posted 26/04/2020
A family history that begins in Kildwick in 1671 and continues, to this day, on the other side of the world. |
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1911 Coronation celebrations
Updated 25/01/2020
One of our on-going projects is to document how Farnhill and Kildwick celebrated the 20th century Coronations and Jubilees. We've added another photograph to our article on the 1911 Coronation. You can read this updated article, or you could view all our articles on the Coronations and Jubilees. |
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A Family at War - the Whitaker family in WW1
First posted 30/11/2019
The Farnhill WW1 Volunteers project restricted itself to those men – service men and volunteers – who were named on the list compiled for Farnhill Parish Council early in 1916. However, it was always likely that we would find that some names had been missed off this list and the project had not been going long before people started to mention the name Thomas Fielding Whitaker. Now that the project has completed the bulk of its work, it has been possible to research TF Whitaker and, in doing so, we have found that there were three men from the family, all of whom were involved in the war, one way or another. Read about the the Whitaker family in WW1. |
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Kildwick Parish Library - a new home
First posted 26/10/2019
At the end of 2018, the History Group was asked to help St. Andrew's Church find a new home for the Kildwick Parish Library, a collection of over 70 antique books, on various theological studies (and a cure for tooth-ache). In January 2019 a small group of us gathered in the Parish Rooms and began the task of photographing and cataloguing. A process that would lead, eventually, to the library been given a new home in the Rare Books Collection of York University. Read about the Kildwick Parish Library. |
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Farnhill Hall - an archeological interpretation
First posted 28/09/2019
Some time ago, members of the History Group were given access to Farnhill Hall. Among the people who came along with us was Alison Armstrong, local archeologist of vernacular buildings. This is the report she subsequently wrote for us. |
To contribute photos, maps, documents, interesting stories please email us.
Email: history@farnhill.co.uk |
