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Robin Longbottom

Reporter · GB

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Sep 26, 2026
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Jul 16, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 26, 2026 · Robin Longbottom

    How Keighley’s hospitals developed over the years (opens the original)

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    Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. UNTIL 1970 Keighley had three hospitals – St John’s, Victoria and Morton Banks. However, there had been none until 1868 when a small Infirmary was opened at the Union Workhouse in Oakworth Road. It only treated paupers and other members of socie

  2. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Robin Longbottom

    Remains of old 'warping gates' where yarn was stretched before it went on the loom (opens the original)

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    A LONG forgotten process in the worsted industry was that of stretching and sizing the warp before it was put on the loom. This had been traditionally done outdoors along a warping gate. The gate (walkway) ran along a conveniently straight wall into which sticks were fitted over a distance of a 100 yards, or so, to support the warp as it was stretched and sized. Size was used to strengthen the yarn to reduce breakages during weaving. The remains of five warping gates have survived and can be see

  3. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Robin Longbottom

    Look back: The country house that was known as Brass Castle (opens the original)

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    Find, save and share Public Notices that affect you in the area. The Public Notice Portal carries statutory public notices published in local newspapers and is the fastest and most effective way of finding out what is happening in YOUR neighbourhood. JUST off Long Lane in Harden there is a house known as Brass Castle. The name brass is said to be a corruption of brae, or braes, a northern and Scottish word for a hillside, or brow, which had its origins in old Norse. There has been a house on the

  4. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Robin Longbottom

    Look back: Families who passed through this historic manor house (opens the original)

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    ONE of the finest 17th century properties in the Keighley area is East Riddlesden Hall. It is a Grade I Listed Building and now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. However, Riddlesden has another Grade I Listed Building – the less well known West Riddlesden Hall which is still a private house and largely hidden from view. There has been a hall at West Riddlesden since the 15th century. It was the seat of the Mohaut, or Maud, family and would then have been a timber framed constru

  5. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Robin Longbottom

    Hen-Pecked Husbands Club and the 'wife taming cradle' (opens the original)

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    DURING the latter half of the 19th century and into the early 20th century there took place in some towns and villages in the Pennines of West Yorkshire what was sometimes referred to as “the annual casting off of the apron strings”. This was a yearly day of liberty from ‘household chores’ that was taken by married men. The events were organised by Hen Pecked Clubs which met in ‘secret locations’ – usually the local inn but sometimes a chapel. They were a working men’s parody on more formal and

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