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Farnhill and Kildwick History Group
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History Group DiaryTuesday May 29th 2018 @ 7pm, at Crosshills Library - Graham Taylor will give a talk, in aid of Library funds, on an album of local photographs which has been returned the area after 110 years in Australia.Friday July 6th 2018 @ 7pm, in Farnhill Institute - The Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project is hosting a FREE talk entitled "A year in the life of a Tommy", based on an original WW1 diary. Admission FREE; refreshments available. |
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History Group NewsKnitting and crocheting a WW1 memorial
Farnhill Methodist Chapel WW1 Roll of Honour - Restoration appeal
Publically available images from the Getty Photo LibraryStephen Wood has made us aware of a link to the Getty Photo Library that provides access to almost 100,000 publically-accessible old photographs. Click here. Craven and the First World War - Spring 2018 newsletter
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.
Click on image to view larger picture or to leave a comment. Do you have any interesting items to contribute to the archive ? |
New and Updated Items
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Group photos project
It's odd how one thing leads to another ... A conversation with a relative of one of the Farnhill WW1 Volunteers has allowed us to add some more names to the group photograph of the 1950 millenary festival at St. Andrew's Church, Kildwick. |
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Farnhill and Kildwick 100 years ago
One hundred years ago this month amid all the doom and gloom - and deaths and woundings - of the war, a bit of light relief could be found by taking in a show at Keighley. You could see "Petite Nina and her Sensational Motor-Cycling Sea Lions" (I kid you not - there's a photograph to prove it !), or "The Great Carmo and his Vanishing Lion". Wow ! |
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Other recent additions and updates
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Jonas Davy – the Farnhill Detective
First posted 25/04/2018
Charles Wilcock, a good friend of the History Group, has been researching his forebears and his written us an article about one of them. His name was Jonas Davy and he went on to be a detective with the Bradford Police Force. Originally written as a piece for the Bradford Police Museum, here is the story of Jonas Davy - the Farnhill Detective. |
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Mapping Farnhill and Kildwick slideshow
Updated 28/04/2018
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 18 months or so. |
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Farnhill Wood Cafe and Cyclists Rest – a mystery resolved ?
First posted 31/03/2018
In August 2013 we posted a short piece in our “Mysteries” section asking if anyone knew where the building known as Farnhill Wood Cafe and Cyclists Rest used to be located. It has taken us a long time and has involved assessing information from numerous sources, but we think we’ve finally got the mystery resolved – well, hopefully. |
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The Road from Keighley to Skipton
- A journey of 1900 years
Updated 31/03/2018
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 information about the 1993 Department of Transport plan for a Kildwick-Skipton dual-carriageway.
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Belgian WW1 refugees in Airedale
First posted 27/01/2018
At the start of WW1, as German troops overran their country, over 250,000 Belgians came to Britain as refugees. It was the single largest influx of refugees in this country's history. Some of them came to this area. This article tells their story. |
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Radical Protestant churchmen in Kildwick – from Reformation to Restoration
Updated 27/01/2018
From the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s to the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 religious life in England was in an almost permanent state of upheaval. Inevitably Kildwick parish became involved in this and, between the 1580s and 1660, the church was home to a succession of radical Protestant churchmen. We have updated this article to show how, in the years following the restortion, the establishment took back control to such an extent that, in 1743, the new curate of St. Andrew’s felt he had to explain and almost apologise for the redical beliefs of other members of his family. |
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Three Questions about the Kildwick "Organ Grave"
Updated 27/01/2018
There are a number of interesting graves in the graveyard of St. Andrew's Church but perhaps the most impressive, although by no means the largest, is the so-called "Organ Grave". In this article we provide answers to three questions about this grave:
You can also read a short memoir, written in 1889, about John Laycock the organ-builder and view a video of the 1851 Laycock organ in Cowling Hill Chapel. In our most recent update to this article we have included a transcript of the obituary to John Laycock published in the Craven Herald on 21/9/1889. |
To contribute photos, maps, documents, interesting stories please email us.
Email: history@farnhill.co.uk |
