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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: 29/02/2020


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History Group Diary

Restarting regular meetings ?,
Tuesday 3/3/2020, 7.00pm free admission

Should we re-start regular meetings of the History Group and, if so how ? Please come along with your ideas.

Re-launching regular meetings of the History Group

People have recently suggested that we restart regular meetings of the History Group.

With that in mind, those of you who are keen are invited to come along to a meeting at the Institute at 7.00pm on Tuesday March 3rd; to see how we might get things off the ground.

In the meantime, you might like to think about the sorts of things you'd like the Group to research. Please come along with your ideas.

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: 29/02/2020
What's new this month ?
	Anecdotes and Snippets An interesting message sent from Kildwick Hall in December 1914, connected to a Yorkshire tragedy. Click here to find out more.
	Farnhill and Kildwick 100 years ago 100 years ago, a war memorial was unveiled in Kildwick - but not that war memorial. Do you known what happened to it ? If so, please email Farnhill WW1 Volunteers Project.

Other recent additions and updates
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.
	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.