Books for local schools! As part of our National Lottery Heritage Fund and Keighley Town Council grant, we're handing out copies of our books to all the schools in Keighley and the Worth Valley. A copy of our digital output will also be provided on a memory stick. These books contain our research on each…
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New grants and equipment for 2023
We've recently had confirmation of two new grants from local councils to help us continue our work. First up is Bradford Council's Keighley Area Committee, who gave us a small grant of £255 to purchase a H5 Zoom Recorder [caption id="attachment_9654" align="alignnone" width="225"] Our new Zoom H5 Handy Recorder[/caption] We can use this to record…
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Recent uploads to our Digital Archive – Aug/Sept 2020
Due to the Covid-19 crisis and lockdowns we don't have any events or exhibitions to do this year, so we've negotiated using the remaining funding for these events to make a digital exhibition of our work instead through a Digital Archive section. We are most grateful to Keighley Town Council (via the Town Clerk and…
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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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