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[03.02.2010 18:27]

i am trying to contact an edith booth from keighley who wrote a piece about nashville road receiving home keighley on the keighley and boulton we site any info would gratefully received
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Webmaster [05.02.2010 18:02]
I have placed your message on Keighley And District Local History Society Forum
in the hope that someone there might have some information.

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Silvia

[14.01.2010 00:27]
http://nfo.atspace.com
Nice site Thanks
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Nigel Mortimer

[22.09.2009 14:19]

Hi -just to let you know that we have opened a used book shop in Keighley on Church Street.
HOUSE OF BOOKS is run by Nigel and Helen Mortimer, and specialises in all kinds of books at discount prices, older and rare books too.

We are open weekdays between 9.30am and 1645pm, and Sat's until 5.00pm.

Paperbacks from only Ł1 and buy back half price option! Recycle your books and let others read them, help to save the environment.
Thanks for reading.

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Jan Perkins

[Keighley] [25.06.2009 22:02]
http://www.keighleyhistory.co.uk
Hi Everyone

David and I are seeking information, pictures, stories, badges etc of Highfield School.
Can you help?

Jan Roll eyes

Perhaps a reunion for the Old Boys & Old Girls.....Old being the operative word........
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Joanne

[UK] [10.06.2008 05:34]

Hello, I would be very grateful for any help. Does anyone know where I can find an old picture of Eastwood House, Keighley. William Sugden and family lived there in the early 1800's.
Many Thanks Joanne
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photo finder [10.06.2008 13:03]
From http://www.valendale.myby.co.uk/houses.html

Eastwood House- Victoria Park
John Greenwood Sugden, son of William Sugden of Eastwood House and Fleece Mill but gentleman-farmer by inclination, who in 1842 offered, as "an inducement to the operative to save the money which he otherwise might spend in the beerhouse", a prize for the best pig bred by a workman in his employment. From this, the following year, grew the first Keighley Agricultural Show

nuisance [Keighley] [31.03.2009 16:44]
Based on the photograph of Eastwood House, can anyone advise whether there was infact a semi-moat to the front of the house, just off the end of the front lawn or was it just an adaptation of the natural contours ??

Drinking at the water fountain,towards the front left of the photograph, was still relished in the 40s/50s

Vale [31.03.2009 22:01]
There was some sort of ditch running round the front, but what it was I dont know, maybe just a drain.

nuisance [Keighley] [02.04.2009 17:15]
We used to run across the lawn and leap as far as we could to try and land at the top of the "slight" slope!!

We also used to play cricket at the foot of the top bandstand using the wall, at the side of the steps, as the wickets.
A 4 was a hit across the top path which bounced before the path, a 6 was across the top path without bouncing BUT you had to be careful when hitting a 6 that if the ball landed and bounced off the roof of the shelter , sited on the far side of the path, you could be OUT caught if a fielder caught the ball WITH ONE ONE HAND ONLY!!
Obviously this was before the ECB divised their rules !!

Vale [02.04.2009 19:10]
I remember the "ditch", I used to hid in there when I was being called in at bed time.
In this day and age they would have been locked up for the smacked bottoms I used to get for pulling that stunt.

I need therapy, its done untold damage

nuisance [Keighley] [03.04.2009 20:00]
Victoria park — answer to “moat” query ??!!

The ha-ha or sunken fence is a type of boundary to a garden, pleasure-ground, or park, designed not to interrupt the view and to be invisible until seen from close by. A ha-ha consists of a trench, the inner side of which is vertical and faced with stone, with the outer slope face sloped and turfed, making the trench, in effect, a sunken fence or wall.

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Judith

[Keighley] [03.04.2009 01:24]

I support Jan whole heartedly, and i applaud Lewis - do not let this put off a lad who has the history of Keighley at heart, and do not put down a lady who has contributed so much to recording keighley's history - i support both sites and want to see them work together. Keighley is worth it....
Keep up the good work - EVERYONE....
Judith
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Vale

[31.03.2009 15:16]

This thread is in support of Jan who as done some wonderful work regarding the history of Keighley. Two people have taken it upon them self’s to try to destroy this great lady.

Due to her connections with another site, it is not possible to talk about those issues there, so I have opened up this tread for anyone who would like to contribute, from either side.

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Pat [01.04.2009 23:59]
I would like to show my support for Jan. She doesn't deserve the abuse she has been getting from a certain person, I have been a victim of said person myself and I don't suppose we are the only ones. Jan has done,and is still doing, so much for Keighley. without her a lot of memories and history of Keighley would be lost forever. So keep it up Jan, you have got a lot of friends behind you and we will support you all the way XX

Vale [02.04.2009 00:05]
Thank you for adding that. I could not agree more with you.

Re your comment "and I don't suppose we are the only ones" I bet your not.

I can not understand the logic behind any of this, thats if there is any logic and not just mindless temper.

Alfie [email] [Keighley] [02.04.2009 16:25]

Perhaps, it should be realised, that history belongs to all, it matters not who has written what or who has picture etc. We each of us have a different slant on things, we each perceive things in a differant way.

Just because someone has written about an area, done a walk in an area, does not mean this area or pursuit belongs to them and them alone.

It will be difficult for the boy to carry on after his father's allegations...perhaps he would like to think about that.

Luckily the majority of people are willing to share, and not gloat over items they have or things they have written.

This culture is wrong and is indicative of society today.

Anger should be controlled, not written down in order to upset and hurt people..........

Exley [02.04.2009 22:01]
Personally, I think the father is doing the most damage here.

If people have helped - why then have their names been removed from the thank you pages on the site.
Help is help and comes unconditionally.

It would be a shame to shut the site down BUT the copied work should be removed.....ie the links page which is cut and pasted and the various other pictures lifted from other sites. Many bear the name Bradford Libraries.......

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Parker

[Keighley] [19.10.2008 12:08]

Hi i was wondering if anyone knew anything about John Parker landlord of the tree horse shoes and auctioneer eastwod row around 1829? also any Keighley Parkers.
Also Joseph Booth who was landlord of the Kings Arms 1822-1837.
Regards
Andy
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Jarlath Bancroft

[Keighley] [01.09.2008 22:02]
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bancroftsfromyorkshire
I am researching Bancroft families from the Keighley/Haworth & Oxenhope areas. My ancestor Joseph Bancroft [sometimes spelt Bankcroft]died at Far Oxenhope in 1785, but I have never managed to find anything out about his origins.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who is researching Bancroft families, and run a website called "Bancrofts from Yorkshire" for anyone researching the name.
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Mark Rawson-Gill

[21.06.2008 19:15]

I have traced my family as originating from Keighley in 1801. A Thomas Rawson Gill and William Rawson Gill came down to Leicester in the 1830's. The Rawson part is still part of my surname. I cannot find evidence of a birth of either relative. The family story is of a Rawson or Gill from the Big House marrying a Squire and putting the two names together. I have been frustrated for 30 years never being able to get any further back than 1801 or confirming the story.
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Roots [21.06.2008 19:40]
Just as a guess I would say that the mothers name was Rawson and the fathers name Gill. Which “big house” was it? There were many in Keighley and surrounding area around that time.
Have you tried looking for marriages for people with those names?
Is there any information on the death or marriage certificates of these people? Often there are the fathers names on the wedding registers.

Tree finder [23.06.2008 18:06]
Any chance of more information Mother of fathers name, last place registered, last known place residence, wife name, childen name and place of birth, any information at all would help

Mark Rawson-Gill [email] [23.06.2008 22:26]
Being new to internet research, I have added all the information that I have discovered. I presume William Rawson Gill and Thomas Rawson Gill are brothers. I have not been able to establish either's parents' names. Thomas was born in 1801 and gave his place of birth in the census as Yorkshire. William Rawson Gill was born in 1814 and gave his place of birth as Keighley; which could probably mean a small village nearby. Both men named successive children with the Rawson prefix and their children too. I am now a Rawson-Gill. The records frequently do not allow space for a middle name. I am at a loss at where to go from here.

Tree finder [24.06.2008 00:45]
Is there nothing on either William or Thomas marriage certificates assuming they did get married, often there is the fathers name of both parties and where they came from. Or even a death certificate, that should give you the exact date of birth which would narraow down the search for a birth cert at the records office.
Having found them on the census from that information can you not locate one of the above documents to get more info?

It is possible that if you got Keighley from the census that it could have been given as just a general area and could well be one of the villages or near by places.

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