75-471: Cliffe Castle Museum , Keighley , West Yorkshire , England, is a local heritage museum which opened in the grand, Victorian , neo-Gothic Cliffe Castle in 1959. Originating as Cliffe Hall in 1828, the museum is the successor to Keighley Museum which opened in Eastwood House, Keighley, in c. 1892 . There is a series of galleries dedicated to various aspects of local heritage, and to displaying
150-604: A Lancashire knight , was granted a charter to hold a market in Keighley on 17 October 1305 by King Edward I . The poll tax records of 1379 show that the population of Keighley, in the wapentake of Staincliffe in the West Riding of Yorkshire , was 109 people (47 couples and 15 single people). From 1753, the Union stage coach departed on the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike from what was
225-703: A heritage railway that passes through Haworth (part of the Brontë Country , home of Anne , Charlotte and Emily Brontë ) and terminates at Oxenhope . At Ingrow is the Museum of Rail Travel . Top Withens and the Brontë Waterfall are within walking distance of Stanbury , a mile and a half from Haworth. East Riddlesden Hall is in Riddlesden. Keighley Police Museum is in the Keighley Civic Centre opposite
300-479: A municipal borough on 28 July 1882 under the provisions of the Municipal Corporations Act 1882 in the West Riding of Yorkshire . In 1938, the boundaries of the borough and civil parish of Keighley were expanded to include the former urban districts and civil parishes of Haworth , Oakworth and Oxenhope , along with the parish of Morton from the abolished Keighley Rural District and a small part of
375-428: A planetarium , a simulated rocky planet surface and many other space -related items. Keighley has a parish church , Keighley Shared Church, and is home to many Christian denominations. It has churches and places of worship for Anglicans , Methodists , United Reformed , Mormons , Quakers , Salvation Army and Jehovah's Witnesses . Keighley has a significant Roman Catholic , minority re-established following
450-533: A birdsong display. The mounted emu given by Ilkley Museum in 1928 is no longer evident, but there are many other examples of the taxidermist's craft. This display was created in 1988, and incorporates collections from several museums in the Bradford area. It includes the Ellison Collection, given by Ilkley Museum in 1928. Very few of the collections are named in the display. Some of the specimens are from
525-565: A carefully placed ease (space left around the foot), which allows the foot to bend, and the heel to lift within or out of the clog. Thick, springy wool socks provide flexibility in the fit. The use and prevalence of wooden footwear in prehistoric and ancient times is uncertain, owing both to the ambiguity of surviving records and the difficulty of both preserving and recognizing its remains. Used clogs also tended to be repurposed as firewood . Some ancient Greeks apparently wore kroúpezai ( κρούπεζαι ) made of wood. These were known to
600-408: A clog as a "thick piece of wood", and later as a "wooden soled overshoe" and a "shoe with a thick wooden sole". Welsh traditional clog maker Trefor Owen identified three main varieties of clogs: wooden upper, wooden soled and overshoes. These divisions are not fixed: some overshoes look more like whole foot clogs, like Spanish albarca , whilst other wooden soled clogs raise and protect clothing in
675-459: A copy of Raphael 's Madonna and Child . All ten main lights of the window once contained Victorian figures in Tudor costume, but most of these were removed by Frederick Butterfield, to be replaced with clear lights or small roundels. In the vestibule and reception rooms are life-sized portraits of Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie . The Working Landscapes gallery displays local crafts and trades of
750-651: A good idea for Keighley to become an independent authority once again. The town has a local history society, Keighley and District Local History Society , and a family history society, Keighley and District Family History Society. Keighley lies at the confluence of the rivers Worth and Aire in Airedale , in the South Pennines . It benefits from an electrified railway service with connections to Leeds , Bradford , Shipley , Bingley , Skipton , Carlisle and Morecambe . The post town of Keighley's northern boundary
825-470: A heraldic crest . Sir Nicholas Pevsner describes the building as having an asymmetrically placed tower and Jacobean shaped gables. By 1887, the Cliffe Castle Estate had around 300 acres . The son of Henry Isaac Butterfield (1819–1910) was Sir Frederick William Louis Butterfield (1858–1943). In 1916, Sir Frederick became Mayor of Keighley and held that title until 1918 when he hosted a visit to
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#1733092465731900-457: A majority of just 249 over the previous incumbent, Conservative Kris Hopkins . In 2015, Hopkins won the seat at the 2015 general election – securing a second term. Hopkins increased the Conservatives vote share in the area from 41.9% in 2010 to 44.3% in 2015. The Conservatives won the seat in 2010, taking over from Ann Cryer , who had been in office since 1997. Keighley was contested by
975-493: A manufacturer of CNC machine tools, particularly precision lathes , until 2008. Keighley is home to Timothy Taylor Brewery , the makers of CAMRA , Champion Beer of Britain award-winning ales Landlord and Boltmaker (previously known as 'Best Bitter'). They also brew Ram Tam, Golden Best, Dark Mild, Knowle Spring and a new French style blonde ale, Le Champion, which was first brewed for the Tour de France in 2014 and has been brewed for
1050-711: A marble statue of the Virgin Mary and Child, that originally belonged to Henry Isaac Butterfield and was returned to the Castle by St Annes Church, Keighley. Recent additions include the a wooden First World War memorial plaque from the Temple Street Methodist Church Keighley which accompanied the Morris memorial windows that are now installed in the Stained Glass gallery. The stained glass gallery contains some of
1125-687: A population which amounted, in the year 1801, to 5,745." Utley Cemetery contains the grave of Christopher Ingham, a veteran of the conflict against Napoleon . He was a member of the Duke of Wellington 's elite 95th Rifle Regiment and fought in ten battles against the French in Spain , France and Belgium , including the Spanish Peninsula War and the Battle of Waterloo , for which he was awarded several medals, including
1200-526: A small souvenir from me. God bless you! The carnations were placed on the grave and the two boys kept the postage stamps and the postcard. The crucifix was placed in St Anne's Church to avoid it being stolen. Keighley is represented in the House of Commons by Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Robbie Moore , who won the seat by defeating his predecessor John Grogan at the 2019 general election . Grogan had
1275-454: A thousand specimens here, including a display of glowing rocks. This space was created in the 1950s when the castle was converted to a museum. It was restored to its original colour scheme in 2013, and the Octagonal lantern returned to its former position in the hall. The octagonal lantern was specifically designed for the space by Sir Albert Richardson in the 1950s, who was the architect who led
1350-461: Is a large indoor shopping precinct which houses most of the town's high street retail chains. The Airedale Shopping Centre housed the 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) statue of the giant Rombald holding a boulder above his head. It was moved to a different part of the centre when a glass ceiling was added to the whole complex. A public consultation favoured placing the statue on the Beechcliffe roundabout on
1425-504: Is a market town and a civil parish in the City of Bradford Borough of West Yorkshire , England. It is the second largest settlement in the borough, after Bradford . Keighley is 8 miles (13 kilometres) north-west of Bradford , 4 mi (6.5 km) north-west of Bingley , 11 mi (18 km) north of Halifax and 8 mi (13 km) south-east of Skipton . It is governed by Keighley Town Council and Bradford City Council . Keighley
1500-649: Is located in West Yorkshire , close to the borders of North Yorkshire and Lancashire . Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire , it lies between Airedale and Keighley Moors. At the 2011 census, Keighley had a population of 56,348. The name Keighley, which has gone through many changes of spelling throughout its history, means "Cyhha's farm or clearing", and was mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086: "In Cichhelai, Ulchel, and Thole, and Ravensuar, and William had six carucates to be taxed." Henry de Keighley,
1575-473: Is said to be the former wing of a much bigger property), converted barns and 18th-century cottages. On the outskirts of town is Cliffe Hall, also known as Cliffe Castle, now Keighley Museum . The Keighley and Worth Valley railway is a heritage steam railway , which links the town with Haworth, Oakworth, Oxenhope and the Bronte Country. Keighley is the location of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway ,
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#17330924657311650-476: Is with Bradley and its southern limit is the edge of Oxenhope . To the west, the town advances up the hill to the suburb of Black Hill, and in the east it terminates at the residential neighbourhoods of Long Lee and Thwaites Brow. The outlying north-eastern suburb of Riddlesden is sometimes incorrectly referred to as a separate village but is part of the town. Past Black Hill and via Braithwaite Edge Road lies Braithwaite village, which leads to Laycock , which
1725-457: The A650 road approaching Keighley from the east. According to local legend, the giant Rombald threw a giant rock at his enemies (or in some versions of the tale his wife) killing them. The rock is the "calf" of "cow and calf" rock fame, which can be seen today at the top of Rombald's Moor on Ilkley Moor . Keighley has one cinema, The Picture House on North Street. It opened in 1913, making it one of
1800-516: The Bingley urban district. On 1 April 1974, Keighley borough became part of the City of Bradford Metropolitan District in accordance with the Local Government Act 1972 in the newly formed county of West Yorkshire . The merger caused a lot of bitterness among Keighley people, who resented being 'taken over' by Bradford and accused the city's council of neglecting the town. Civil parish status
1875-554: The British National Party (BNP) in the May 2005 general election , when the party's leader Nick Griffin stood for Parliament. He was defeated by Ann Cryer, one of a small number of Labour MPs with an increased majority. In March 2006, the town's mayoress, Rose Thompson, announced she had joined the BNP and was immediately dismissed by the mayor Tony Wright. The town was incorporated as
1950-608: The Romans as sculponeae . Both the Greeks and Romans also made sandals by attaching leather straps to wooden soles in various ways. The ancient Chinese wore wooden jī ( 屐 ) by at least the Han dynasty , when a form decorated with colorful ribbons and designs was used by women on their wedding days . Under the Jin , a different style shaped the entire shoe from a single piece of wood and, after
2025-682: The Tang , the southern Chinese wore "boot clogs" ( 靴 屐 , xuējī ). The oldest wooden footwear so far recovered in Europe was found at Amsterdam and Rotterdam in the Netherlands . These date from c. 1230 and c. 1280 and looked very similar to the wooden shoes still worn in the area. By about this era, wooden pattens were being used as overshoes to protect the wearer's hose and indoor shoes when walking outside, particularly in inclement weather. Some shoes then began directly incorporating
2100-462: The working class , some types are considered fashion wear today, such as Swedish träskor or Japanese geta . Clogs are also used in several different styles of dance , where an important feature is the sound they produce against the floor. Clog dancing is one of the fundamental roots of tap dancing , but with tap shoes the taps are free to click against each other and produce a different sound from clogs. The Oxford English Dictionary defines
2175-409: The 1960s and lost many historic buildings. However, the town managed to retain some of its heritage and has many Victorian buildings. The local millstone grit gives many of the buildings a distinctive look. East Riddlesden Hall , Cliffe Castle Museum and Whinburn Mansion are fine country houses . There are large townhouses along Skipton Road, which contrast with the rows of smaller terraces in
2250-657: The 1960s from the Mirpur region of Azad Kashmir , in Pakistan , and the Sylhet region of Bangladesh . As of 2013, there were eight mosques in Keighley, including the purpose-built Markazi Jamia Masjid ('Central Community Mosque') in Emily Street and the purpose-built Jamia Masjid Ghosiyah (Ghosiyah Community Mosque – named after the saint Abdul Qadir Jilani ), on Skipton Road. The rest are buildings which have been converted into Mosques, with
2325-538: The Devonshire Arms coaching inn on the corner of Church Street and High Street. Rebuilt about 1789, this public house has a classical style pedimented doorcase with engaged Tuscan columns in the high fashion of that age. The original route towards Skipton was Spring Gardens Lane – Hollins Lane – Hollins Bank Lane. Keighley was to become an intersection with other turnpikes , including the Two-Laws to Keighley branch of
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2400-574: The Hinchcliffe Collection. This comprises 800 specimens from the Gem Rock Museum at Heaton , Bradford , bought with grants and public subscription from George Hinchcliffe in 1984. The display explains how minerals are different from rocks , and has sections about: mineral colour; streak ; hardness ; magnetism ; fluorescence ; fracture ; chemical classification ; crystal shape, crystallisation, chemistry and occurrence. There are over
2475-525: The Peninsula Medal. He died in 1866. Some local historians believe Mr Ingham's heroism may have inspired the author Bernard Cornwell 's saga about Major Richard Sharpe . The TV series episode Sharpe's Justice , which focuses on the roots of the title character, is set in and around Keighley. On 22 May 1936, the Zeppelin Hindenburg crossed Yorkshire in a diversion of her normal route between
2550-565: The Toller Lane – Blue Bell turnpike (1755) from Bradford to Colne , the Bradford to Keighley turnpike (1814), and the Keighley— Halifax turnpike. The 1842 Leeds Directory description of Keighley reads, "Its parish had no dependent townships though it is about six miles [10 km] long and four miles [6 km] broad, and comprises 10,160 acres [4,110 ha] of land (including a peaty moor of about 2,000 acres or 800 ha) and
2625-565: The Tour de Yorkshire in 2015 and 2016. They also own many pubs in the area, including the Albert Hotel, Boltmakers Arms, Lord Rodney, Royal Oak and The Fleece Inn in Haworth. "On-street trading took place in Keighley, around the Church Green area, for 500 years before the establishment of a formal market in 1833. The market was situated at the west end of Low Street. This area was redeveloped in
2700-694: The Town Square. The old police station has many pieces of police memorabilia, including a Victorian horse-drawn Black Mariah. Local high schools are Carlton Keighley in Utley , Beckfoot Oakbank , Parkside School in Cullingworth and the Holy Family Catholic School . Keighley College , formerly the local campus of Leeds City College , itself formerly known as Park Lane College, is situated near Keighley railway station on Bradford Road. In 2010,
2775-553: The United States and Germany. As the airship passed over the town, a parcel was dropped and landed in the High Street, where two boys, Jack Gerrard and Alfred Butler, picked it up. The parcel contained a bunch of carnations, a small silver and jet crucifix, some postage stamps, a picture postcard and some Hindenburg notepaper. The note was written by John P Schulte , who called himself the first flying priest. The note requested that
2850-453: The building and grounds were bought by Keighley Corporation with the assistance of Sir Bracewell Smith, a local benefactor, who in 1955, paid for the conversion of the house for public use. The house had been gabled in the neo-Gothic style, with tall towers each end, and conservatories. In the interests of modernisation, the back tower was taken down, and the front one shortened. The high Flemish gables and other decorations were removed from
2925-471: The carnations and crucifix be placed on the grave of his brother, Lieutenant Franz Schulte, who had died of Spanish flu , during the deadly influenza pandemic of 1918, as a Prisoner of War at Raikeswood Prisoner of War Camp, Skipton, originally built as a training camp for the Bradford Pals, in 1915. Schulte was, at that time, buried at Morton Cemetery, two miles (three kilometres) east of Keighley (though
3000-431: The college opened this new £30 million campus, moving away from the former site on Cavendish Street, which was in need of repair and has since been demolished. The college includes an Industrial Centre of Excellence and a nationally acclaimed Star Centre facility, designed to encourage more young people to study STEM subjects (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This features a mock mission control centre ,
3075-450: The conversion of the building. It is sometimes incorrectly referenced as a 19th-century Chinese lantern. The colour scheme and gilding was restored on the basis of paint scrapings, confirmed by a painting of the hall design done by Sir Albert Richardson, which can be seen within the space itself. Prior to refurbishment, the space was used to host temporary exhibitions, it now displays a permanent selection of items that have been selected from
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3150-518: The different types of clog, their design, origin and manufacture. In the 1970s and 1980s, Swedish clogs became popular fashion accessories for both sexes. They were usually worn without socks and were considered suitable attire for the avant-garde man. In the 1980s and 1990s, clogs based on Swedish clogs returned in fashion for women. Platform clogs or sandals, often raised as high as 6 or even 8 inches right through between sole and insole, were worn in many western countries. The large mid layer
3225-545: The earliest William Morris stained glass in the country. This gallery aims to tell the story of Keighley. It includes the Keighley Hen Pecked Club's peace box . This is an adult-sized wooden rocking cradle , supposedly for soothing nagging wives instead of babies. It had humorous rules and was displayed in galas , but it is not known whether it was used. The club used to meet at the Royal Hotel, Damside, and
3300-500: The faith. Clog (shoe) Clogs are a type of footwear that has a thick, rigid sole typically made of wood , although in American English , shoes with rigid soles made of other materials are also called clogs. Traditional clogs remain in use as protective footwear in agriculture and in some factories and mines . Although they are sometimes negatively associated with cheap and folkloric footwear of farmers and
3375-405: The front edge of the front "feet". Some Japanese and Indian clogs have "teeth" or very high pegs attached to the soles. The clog can rotate around the front edge of the front "tooth" as the wearer strides forward. Some medieval pattens were in two pieces, heel through to ball and ball to toes. Joining the two was a leather strip forming a hinge, thus allowing the shoe above to flex. Klompen may have
3450-513: The gallery below. Presented below are typical clogs from the countries where they are found. Like many folk items, the boundaries of manufacture and use are regional and therefore do not always exactly follow those of modern states. So, in some countries two or more different types can be found. It is also possible that one type can be found in bordering countries. For example, Danish, German, Dutch, Belgian and clogs from Northwest France look quite similar. The links provide access to pages dealing with
3525-779: The harpies) and rehung in the Bracewell Smith Hall. It was designed for the space in the 1950s, although often described as 19th century. The displays in the Local Pottery gallery are placed in recognition of a past local skill, and a trade which was significant in the Keighley area. An alternative tradition to this local industrial tradition was that inspired by Japanese and British Arts & Crafts precedents. 53°52′31″N 1°54′49″W / 53.87528°N 1.91361°W / 53.87528; -1.91361 ( Cliffe Castle Museum ) Keighley Keighley ( / ˈ k iː θ l i / KEETH -lee )
3600-453: The help of a public appeal. Some items were borrowed and are also displayed in the museum. The vestibule and staircase show the Victorian eclectic Gothic Revivalist taste. The hammer-beam roof over the staircase imitates the 15th century, the staircase window the 14th century, and the vestibule arches the 13th century. The window was designed by Powells of Leeds . The top roundel features
3675-454: The house itself, which is a Grade II listed building . It is believed that Keighley Museum was established in 1893, because that is when its first location, Eastwood House, Keighley, was purchased for the public. In 1950 the local benefactor Sir Bracewell Smith purchased Cliffe Castle, and had it redesigned as a museum and art gallery for the people of Keighley. The museum re-opened as Cliffe Castle Museum and Art Gallery in 1959. Cliffe Hall
3750-472: The late 1960s and a purpose-built covered market hall was constructed...The new building was opened by Keighley town mayor Sydney Bancroft in June, 1971." Much of the town centre has been pedestrianised. Keighley has Keighley Market Hall , four large supermarkets, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Aldi and Asda. There are several budget supermarkets situated in small retail parks around the town. The Airedale shopping centre
3825-464: The letter stated that he was buried at Skipton, which was incorrect). To the finder of this letter. Please deposit these flowers and the cross on the grave of my dear brother, Lieutenant Franz Schulte, I. Garde Regt zu Fuss. Prisoner of War in Skipton Cemetery in Keighley near Leeds. Many thanks for your kindness, John P Schulte, the first flying priest. N.B. Please accept the stamps and picture as
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3975-613: The long terrace of Cavendish Street with its 220-yard (⅛ mile/a furlong ) ornamental canopy. There is a bus station which opened in 2002 near the Airedale Shopping Centre. There are several tower blocks in Parkwood Rise, Holycroft and Ingrow and a central multi-storey car park . Amongst the modern houses in Laycock, two miles (three kilometres) outside Keighley town centre, is a 17th-century, three-storey manor house (which
4050-531: The museum collections. The display includes a mummy of an Egyptian girl dating from the Ptolemaic dynasty ( c. 250 BCE ), and covers the Ancient Egyptian belief in the afterlife . This downstairs room acts as an accessible space for themes covered upstairs. This room contains a small selection of larger exhibits and is often used as a teaching or activity room. Exhibits in the conservatory include
4125-475: The north are Silsden and Steeton . Although these villages are often referred to as separate places, they are part of the wider Keighley area. These areas add a total of 22,669 people to the Keighley area, taking the population of the wider Keighley area up to 74,098 ( 2001 Census ). To the north-east is Rombalds Moor , which contains many signs of Stone Age and Bronze Age occupation, including cup and ring marks ; as it drops back down into Wharfedale and
4200-583: The oldest being the Shahjalal Jami Masjid and Jamiah Quraniah (ShahJalal Community Mosque and Quran Teaching School – named after the saint Shah Jalal ), on Temple Row, which was previously the Wesleyan Methodist Church, 1845–46. There is a Buddhist centre on Lawkholme Crescent, in the town centre. The Keighley Kadampa Buddhist Centre is used by lay and ordained Buddhist practitioners and also runs day and evening classes for newcomers to
4275-609: The oldest in Britain. A brief closure in the mid-1990s prevented it from being listed as one of the oldest in continuous operation – a record that goes to the Curzon Cinema , which opened in Clevedon , Somerset , in 1911. It was restored from its derelict condition in 1996 by Northern Morris Associated Cinemas and operates to this day. Keighley has a popular local music scene. There have been various venues where local bands play. Most notable
4350-572: The past. There is a video of clog -making which continued into the 20th century. The Airedale gallery display shows how the River Aire was formed, and shows fossils of its earliest animals. The Archaeology Area display features the Silsden Roman treasure . The Natural History gallery was once the Butterfields' ballroom. It is now full of mounted animals and birds. There is a family of tawny owls and
4425-472: The repeal of the penal laws. The Catholic population was boosted in the mid-19th century with the arrival of Irish immigrants escaping the 1840s Great Famine , who came to work in the textile and weaving industries. Keighley has two Roman Catholic churches (St Anne's – 1840 and St Joseph's – 1934) and four Roman Catholic schools (St Anne's – 1857, St Joseph's – 1922, Our Lady of Victories – 1960 and Holy Family – 1964). The first spiritualist church in Britain
4500-400: The roof, and the conservatories demolished. The service rooms were replaced by the octagonal art gallery in the 1950s. The exterior fantasy design was lost but some of the neo-Gothic interior has been recreated. By 1989, Thoresby Hall, the former home of the late Countess Manvers, and its contents, had been sold off. Various artefacts were brought back to Cliffe Castle from where they came with
4575-434: The so-called Swedish clogs (wooden bottom and leather top) is still seen as a trendy fashion item, often as ladies' high-heeled boots. Nevertheless, traditional wooden footwear is still popular in several regions in Europe and in some occupations, for its practical use. Some historic local variations have recently been replaced by uniform national models. More information on the various methods of manufacture can be found from
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#17330924657314650-565: The streets behind them, although many of these larger buildings have since been converted into flats and bedsits. The town's central library was the first Carnegie library in England, opened in 1904 with a grant of £10,000 from Andrew Carnegie . The library has undergone refurbishment, which was completed in 2007. Many of the town's former mill buildings are still intact. The town centre contains modern buildings, such as Leeds City College, and examples of Victorian commercial architecture, including
4725-451: The top of the foot. Some sandal types, and in particular toe peg styles, are worn more like " flip-flops " and rely on the grip between the big and next toe. As they are primarily made from wood, clogs cannot flex under the ball of the foot as softer shoes do. To allow the foot to roll forward most clogs have the bottom of the toe curved up, known as the cast. Some styles of clogs have "feet", such as Spanish albarca . The clog rotates around
4800-454: The town by King George V and Queen Mary on 29 May of that year. Sir Frederick's daughter, Marie-Louise Roosevelt Butterfield (1889–1984), married in 1918 and later became Marie-Louise Roosevelt Pierrepont, Countess Manvers . Sir Frederick died in 1943 and on 21 July of that year his daughter Marie-Louise, Countess Manvers inherited the Cliffe Castle Estate and took some of the contents of Cliffe Castle to her home at Thoresby Hall . In 1949,
4875-719: The town of Ilkley , approximately five miles away, it becomes the more famous Ilkley Moor . † The 1939 population is estimated from the National Registration Act figures. The 1941 census did not take place because of the Second World War . The town's industries have typically been in textiles , particularly wool and cotton processing. In addition to the manufacture of textiles, there were several large factories making textile machinery. These included Dean, Smith & Grace , George Hattersley & Son , and Prince, Smith & Stell. The first of these operated as
4950-487: The town. The Worth is lined with abandoned, semi-derelict industrial sites and tracts of waste ground dating from the period when Keighley thrived as a major textile centre. Parts of Keighley are prone to flooding, and the town was particularly badly hit by floods in 2000. Since then, millions have been spent on strengthening flood defences. Other outlying villages around the town are Oakworth , Cross Roads , Haworth , Stanbury and Oxenhope . The two main settlements to
5025-412: The unique record of having the first recorded town twinning agreement in the world, having entered into an agreement with Poix-du-Nord , France in 1920. This actually followed an even earlier sister city arrangement with two communes on the outskirts of Paris , France – Suresnes and Puteaux – starting in 1905. Like many other British towns and cities, Keighley was extensively remodelled in
5100-406: The way that overshoes do, such as Japanese geta . The type of upper determines how the clogs are worn. Whole foot clogs need to be close fitting and can be secured by curling the toes. In contrast wooden soled clogs are fastened by laces or buckles on the welt and therefore the toes are relaxed as in shoes. Half open clogs may either be secured like whole foot clogs, or have an additional strap over
5175-513: The wooden platform into their soles, like the Venetian chopines . Since wooden footwear was a hand-made product, the shape of the footwear, as well as its production process showed great local and regional diversity in style. At the beginning of the 20th century machine-made wooden footwear was introduced. After WW2 , in particular, wooden shoes became uncommon. They were replaced by more fashionable all-leather and synthetic footwear. At present, only
5250-564: Was also mentioned in the Domesday Book . Laycock is a conservation area which overlooks the hamlet of Goose Eye. The River Aire passes through north-eastern Keighley, dividing the neighbourhood of Stockbridge and running roughly parallel to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal . The Worth links up with the Aire in Stockbridge and runs south-westerly, dividing eastern Keighley from central and western districts of
5325-441: Was built by Christopher Netherwood between 1828 and 1833, and designed by George Webster of Kendal , a gothic revivalist . The Butterfields, a textile manufacturing family, bought Cliffe Hall in 1848. Henry Isaac Butterfield transformed the building by adding towers, a ballroom and conservatories from 1875 to 1880, and renamed it Cliffe Castle in 1878. He decorated the building with the griffin motif, which he had adopted as
5400-534: Was founded at Keighley in 1853 by David Richmond, who, although not originally from the town, stayed for many years and helped to establish the movement throughout the country. Spiritualism was at its height during Victorian times and Keighley Spiritualist church remains open. Muslims make up the second-largest religious group in the town. According to the 2011 census, there were more than 12,400 Muslims in Keighley in March of that year. Most had started coming to Britain in
5475-471: Was restored to Keighley in 2002, providing it with its own town council . The council's 30 members elect a mayor from amongst their number once a year. The parish boundaries are based on but not identical to the pre-1938 borough boundaries. In June 2006, the leader of Bradford District Council , Conservative Councillor Kris Hopkins, was quoted in the Craven Herald & Pioneer as suggesting it might be
5550-649: Was started by Henry Hargreaves Thompson, who was landlord in 1861. The pub became the Royal Oak in 1998. There is also a Bees Gallery and a Costume Gallery, whose space hosts a changing selection of costume exhibits from the museum's collections. This gallery, round the top of the octagonal Sir Bracewell Smith Hall, shows the development of the building from a Victorian private house to a contemporary museum. The "Chinese Chandelier", which held wooden harpies, once hung in Cliffe Castle. The chandelier has since been restored (with
5625-688: Was the now-defunct CJ's bar (also known as Chrome, VW's, Cheese and Trumpet) that played host to many popular touring bands. Examples of local bands are the Sailmakers , the Undecided, Foxes Faux , Random Hand , the Get Guns, Eyesore Angels and Dead Message, who recently parted ways after 9 years. The British rock bands Skeletal Family and Terrorvision were also originally formed in Keighley. Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC Yorkshire and ITV Yorkshire . Television signals are received from
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