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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Accessing service records for research
One of the many questions we get is how to access service records. For Great War service records you can access these through Ancestry and Find My past but you have to subscribe to this service although it is usually available for free at most libraries. Bear in mind that Army service records from this…
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Cliffe Castle Museum – ‘Keighley’s War’ exhibition
Cliffe Castle Museum is holding an exhibition of items from their collection connected with Keighley's part in the Great War and it will run from May 14 to November 18, 2018. As a local research group we were asked to contribute and we have produced a display of sixty biographies based on the war memorials…
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