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“One Street in Parkwood” talk at Keighley Library

On February 14, 2018 I will be giving an illustrated talk entitled "One Street in Parkwood" which follows the fortunes of a number of men from the Parkwood area of Keighley who served during the Great War and will discuss the effects on the area. The talk is hosted by Keighley and District Local History…

10th January 2018

Andy Wade

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About our Project

Why ‘Men’ of Worth?
When we started researching in 2001, we found only names of men on local memorials and as we felt their sacrifice had ‘worth’ and most of them lived around the river Worth we felt the name was apt. Also, Keighley’s motto is ‘By Worth’, which fits rather neatly with our name. We have since expanded our research to include everyone from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served in wartime and are currently focussing on women in the Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment who were mostly nurses.
We are also researching conscientious objectors from the area.
Our Project researches local people from Keighley and the Worth Valley who served the country in wartime. Our earliest records are of soldiers who fought before the Battle of Waterloo!
We follow all available sources of information and use the information in these sources to create a biography about each person for our archive.

Please contact us through our ‘Submit’ page form to add a person to the archive.

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