Memorials

As part of our research we have looked into the Keighley and District War Memorials. Of 56 war memorials for the town, 15 are in storage and 8 are categorised as lost. We will add details of these memorials as and when we have completed our research into them.

Conservation work carried out on Keighley War Memorial by Keighley Town Council

Keighley - South African War (Boer War) memorial plaque

Parish of Morton Roll of Honour

Morton Memorial Institute

St Andrews Church Great War memorial

St Anne's Church war memorial, Keighley

St Barnabas Church roll of honour, Thwaites Brow, Keighley

St John's Church roll of honour, Ingrow, Keighley

St. Paul's Church war memorial, Keighley

Steeton and Eastburn war memorial

St. Peter's Church war memorial, Keighley

This memorial was discovered in a storage room in a former church building, to the rear of where St. Peter's Church was located on South Street, Keighley. For many years, it was thought to be lost. It is held in storage on behalf of The Men of Worth Project, by Keighley and District Local History Society in their Keighley Civic Centre archive rooms. We would like to find a new permanent home for it, but for the moment it is in safe keeping.

Slack Lane Baptist Church war memorial

We were asked to find a new home for the war memorial at Slack Lane Baptist Church. In 2018 we negotiated with Oakworth Village Trust to become the new custodians of the war memorial and it was installed on the wall in the village hall later that year.
Recently however, we have been told that the Trust members have removed it from the wall (without any public consultation) and it's whereabouts are not clear. This is along with several other war memorials which were on the wall alongside it.

Oakworth's new 'Centenary of the Great War' roll of honour

The new centenary roll of honour for Oakworth was created from over twenty years of research of the people of the village who served in the Great War. It was unveiled in 1919 and is now on permanent public display at Oakworth Village Hall.

Temple Street Memorial found and restored and rehomed at Cliffe Castle Museum

This memorial was found discarded on a Keighley Street and we brought it for for safe keeping and declared it as lost property, then claimed it after 28 days which meant we were the owners and could donate it to the museum. It is now on permanent public display.

Cross Roads Primitive Methodist Sunday School roll of honour

We organised the creation of this new memorial from scratch after the original had disintegrated and the photos had been placed into an archive box. The staff at Keighley library discovered them and several local people gave their time to make a new framed memorial which was installed in Cross Roads Park memorial building, alongside the main Lees, Bocking and Cross Roads War Memorial.

Haworth - Grand United Order Of Oddfellows
We assisted in the transfer of this roll of honour from the Oddfellows, into the care of Wyedean Weaving, a local textile manufacturer who make military accoutrements and have many military connections and customers. They are based in Haworth and are the perfect people to take care of this unique local roll of honour. After extensive conservation work funded by Wyedean along with a grant from the War Memorials Trust, the roll of honour was unveiled with pride of place in their boardroom, in November 2018.

Photo taken sortly after the unveiling ceremony of the memorial, with all those who played a part in the rescue of this important memorial.

Haworth Public Prize Band

Memorials held in storage by Cliffe Castle Museum:

Albert Street Baptist Church
Devonshire Street Congregational Church
Exley Head Methodist Church
Fell Lane Wesleyan Sunday School
Keighley Sunday Circle
Keighley Union Workhouse
Lund Park Wesleyan Chapel
Marlborough Street Congregational Mission
St. James' Church (not found on a visit to Cliffe Castle Museum storage - search pending).
Sun St. Methodist Church WW1
Sun St. Methodist Church WW2
Temple Street Methodist Church Memorial windows - (On permanent display in Cliffe Castle)
Temple Street Methodist Church Board - (On permanent display in Cliffe Castle)
Victoria Park Wesleyan Methodist Chapel
Worth Methodist Chapel

Memorials believed to have been lost:

Ancient Order of Foresters
Holy Trinity Church
Ingrow and Hermit Hole Conservative Club
Keighley Albion Cycling Club
(This memorial may still exist)
Keighley Cooperative Society
Knowle Park Congregational Church
Lund Park Wesleyan Chapel Window
Men of George Hattersley and Sons Ltd
Pilot Officer C. M. Handley R.A.F.
Prudential Assurance Company

The list of lost war memorials from the Imperial War Museum's records, was originally 11 in number, but we identified the DEVONSHIRE STREET Memorial from it's description as being one already in storage with Cliffe Castle Museum.

We also rescued the TEMPLE STREET memorial board, which had been left out on a Keighley street by unknown persons in 2015. We later donated it to Cliffe Castle Museum in Keighley, where they already held the stained glass windows from this chapel on display.

The other 'lost' Keighley memorial that was recently found, was INGROW COUNCIL SCHOOL WW1

The Ingrow Council School War Memorial Board

and was discovered by a staff member in a storage room in Ingrow Primary School in 2014, and now occupies a prominent place within the school building. The staff very kindly brought this memorial along to show at the 2016 Keighley Armed Forces Day event: