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Post by jbancroft on Jul 10, 2015 8:18:54 GMT
Hi All,
Can anyone tell me where Wellington Street was in Keighley around 1900?
Thanks
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Post by dhutchy on Jul 11, 2015 14:08:40 GMT
I think it was off Low street and demolished when the new town center was built in the 60s
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maryb
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Post by maryb on Jul 11, 2015 16:13:35 GMT
1901 Kly District 38
same area as Low Bridge
Longcroft
low street and Sun Street.
Maryb
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Post by barcroftlad on Jul 11, 2015 23:43:15 GMT
It was ringing a bell with me but it was LONG time ago. I was 9-11 years old when we moved to Parkwood for a couple of years, 1945-47, from Cross Roads, and we kids used to play in those empty, condemned houses. There were several streets of them. Imagine kids having access to them nowadays! Enclosed are a few lines from my Memoirs of being a kid in Keighley in wartime and postwar, written about 10 years ago.
Keighley had a lot of old condemned houses. Derelict places, but open for kids to play in. Imagine that happening today with our sanitised approach to life. So dangerous, so smelly, so dusty, so dirty. We used to play in them on our way home from the pictures, between Low Street, Low Bridge and Longcroft. These were all eventually demolished to make way for the new shopping area. Saturday morning pictures started about now and it was the highlight of the week to see our new heroes, Johnny Mack Brown, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy or The Cisco Kid riding the screens, filling us with great ideas as to what we could do if we had horses.
Cheers
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Post by fsharpminor on Jul 13, 2015 10:35:57 GMT
Parallel to Sun Street, between Sun St and Coney Lane, stretch from Long Croft to Low Street. Still showing on a 1950 Map of Keighley I have. Of course Wellington Road still exists between Coney Lane and Worth Way (see Google Maps)
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Post by buzzer999 on Mar 10, 2016 14:24:42 GMT
My Mum used to work in Crabtree's printers, I'm pretty certaim they were in Wellington Street. Dave
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