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History goes on display
From the Telegraph & Argus, first published Saturday 13th Feb 1999.
Photographs, papers and books depicting life in Keighley through the century have gone on public display at the town's library.
Part of the display has been donated by Frank Cooper, former head-teacher at the Keighley Secondary Technical School, who now lives in Chelmsford, Essex.
Mr Cooper, who was head from 1955 to 1961, says the school was in Hartington Street in an area formerly known as the `Flosh'. "We had an extensive catchment area," he recalls. "Surprisingly, only one quarter of the 470 pupils came from the immediate Keighley area. The rest travelled from as far as Hellifield, Settle, Sedbergh, Ingleton, Earby and Barnoldswick."
In notes sent to the library he tells of what life was like at the school through his years as head and recalls some of the pupils who attended.
He also recounts how the City of London Girls' School was evacuated to the `Tech' school premises in 1940 following the relentless bombardment of London. In spite of the continuing devastation the girls returned to London in 1943.
"The Tec premises in Hartington Street were finally demolished in 1982," says Mr Cooper.
"Although the school is no longer with us, we can hope that its influence will remain with all who once knew its worth and that, in course of time, influence will be passed on to succeeding generations. If that be so, the Keighley Secondary Tech can never die."
The display includes school magazines, pictures of sports days and a programme of the school's speech day and awards ceremony at Keighley's Municipal Hall on January 21, 1960.
Other items on display include belongings of former Keighley county councillor Miss Margaret Elizabeth Rhodes. She died in May last year aged 77.
A member of the Liberal Women's Association, she became a national organiser for Age Concern.
Her father was David Rhodes a magistrate and former mayor of Keighley who contested the 1929 general election for the Liberals.
On display is Alderman Rhodes' speech book and the address which was read at his funeral by the Rev L Temple Jarvis at Temple Street Meth-odist Church on May 24, 1938.
Former Lord Mayor Smith Midgley has also donated artefacts for the display.
Keighley Library's Pauline Barfield says people should be careful what they throw away. "People seem to think that because items are from this century they are not considered archive material," she says. "They are, and they are very valuable because they show what life has been like through the years."
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