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Farnhill and Kildwick History Group


	Very little has been formally written or documented about the history of Farnhill or Kildwick. The aim of this group is to research and present its findings on this web site. Anyone who has information or memories to contribute please contact the web administrator. We usually meet each month in the Village Institute, please check the Events Diary for details. New members are always welcome. Regular updates and new articles feature here, so please bookmark this page. Last updated: 27/07/2019


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History Group Diary

Sat, Aug 10th, 10-12am - The Craven Museum Roadshow will be at the Institute. Come along and see some of the exhibits from Craven Museum, and slideshows of Old Farnhill & Kildwick. Bring along items / old photographs / documents, etc. to be examined and photographed by Museum staff and members of the Local History Group.
Admission free; tea and coffee available.

Craven Museum Roadshow to visit Farnhill

While Craven Museum is being refurbished, some of the Museum's exhibits are being toured around local venues.

The History Group is pleased to announce that the Craven Museum Roadshow will be in Farnhill on Saturday August 10th, between 10 and 12am, at the Kildwick and Farnhill Institute, Main Street, Farnhill.

Please come along - entry is free - and if you have any artifacts, documents or photographs of historical interest, bring them along and show the Museum staff.

Members of the History Group will be on hand to examine items of local interest, and slideshows of Old Farnhill & Kildwick will be shown.

Coffee & tea will be available.

St. Andrew's Church Building Working Group

From the Kildwick St. Andrew's parish magazine, "The Pinnicle":

If you interested in becoming involved with this group, please contact Rev Julie Bacon (email: revjulesbacon@gmail.com; tel: 01274 405170).

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 Archive

Each 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 ?
Please contact history@farnhill.co.uk


New and Updated Items Last updated: 27/07/2019
What's new this month ?
	1953 Coronation celebrations Updated 27/07/2019 One of our on-going projects is to document how Farnhill and Kildwick celebrated the 20th century Coronations and Jubilees. We've made updates to our article on the 1953 Coronation. You can read this updated article, or you could view all our articles on the Coronations and Jubilees.
	Slideshow - Building the Keighley to Kildwick dual-carriageway Updated 27/07/2019 Do you remember when the dual-carriageway betwen Keighley and Kildwick was built ? Some photographs of the construction at the Kildwick end of the road have been donated to our archive and we've made them into a short slideshow.
	Farnhill and Kildwick 100 years ago In the month in which the Cenotaph was unveiled in London, July 1919, there was lots of talk locally about war memorials at the Church and in Kildwick School. There were peace celebrations and a church service. And of course, throughout it all, the dispute about providing allotments for former servicemen rumbled on.

Other recent additions and updates
	Mapping Farnhill and Kildwick slideshow Updated 29/06/2019 Our archive includes a number of maps of Farnhill and Kildwick. Here are some, dating from 1577 to 2012 in approximately chronological order, made into a slideshow. It's interesting to see how views of the area have changed. We've updated this slideshow with further maps contributed to our archive in the past year or so.
	Educating Kildwick - some notes on schooling in the village First posted 25/05/2019 The history of education in Kildwick could go back as far as Tudor times. With the help of two descendents of former masters of Kildwick school, this article provides an outline of schooling in the village from those earliest times up until the start of the 20th century.
	Keighley's "1920's Boy" - a Farnhill connection First posted 27/04/2019 In the 1970s, Stanley Boardman, formerly a sign-writer in Keighley, created a series of paintings and drawings of scenes from his childhood. They were subsequently collected under the title "1920's Boy". Before starting on these iconic pieces, however, Stanley created a number of murals for Kildwick & Farnhill Institute. Slideshows of some of Stanley's "1920's Boy" pictures, along with images taken recently in the Institute building, have been created by Tim Neal of Keighley and District Local History Society. Farnhill murals (1968) 1920's Boy book (1973) Collected images (February 2017) Stanley R. Boardman archive
	A proposed housing development - Farnhill 1873 First posted 29/01/2019 These days it seems that there are housing developments wherever you look, with many of them being contentious. However, none of the developments currently proposed for Farnhill will have anything like the impact that a plan put forward in 1873 would have had on the village had it gone ahead.
	Kildwick and Farnhill Brass Band (1866-1936) Updated 29/12/2018 Another update to our piece on the Kildwick and Farnhill Brass Band. This update includes some more photographs connected to the band.