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Farnhill and Kildwick History Group
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History Group Diary"On Her Majesty's Service", Friday 11/10/2019, 7.15pm, admission £5Colin Holt will talk about his time doing National Service in the 1950s. Admission includes refreshments. |
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History Group NewsTalk on the origins of Quakerism
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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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. |
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Farnhill and Kildwick 100 years ago
100 years ago there was a delightful sounding wedding celebration at Farnhill Chapel; pupils at the school were presented with a Peace Medal; and a generous donor offered land for the school to use as a recreation ground.
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Other recent additions and updates
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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.
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To contribute photos, maps, documents, interesting stories please email us.
Email: history@farnhill.co.uk |
