On November 11, 2018 Armistice Day and Remembrance Day coincided, and around the country people remembered the war dead. This day was the centenary of the cessation of hostilities when the guns fell silent. It was not the end of the war, which came later through the signing of treaties, but at least we'd stopped…
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Heritage Lottery Fund grant meeting 22nd Sept 2018
Heritage Lottery Fund - Grant bid 22nd September 2018. 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Keighley Library - Local Studies Room. This is a meeting for interested persons to get together to discuss our bid for a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. If you would like to join the Men of Worth Project and have a say…
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Slack Lane Baptist Church, Oakworth – war memorial
The Slack Lane Baptist Church on Slack Lane, Oakworth has closed in July 2018 after 199 years as a religious chapel. We were contacted to see if we could help with regard to their war memorial which names fourteen men from the Oakworth area who died during the Great War and two men from the…
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Heritage Lottery Fund Grant – Meeting on Saturday 22 September 2018
We are organising a meeting of interested persons who'd like to get involved with the Project more closely. We know a lot of people have helped over the years and we're extremely grateful for that but we need to step up a gear if we're going to achieve the main aim of the Project which…
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