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Post by mrd on Nov 3, 2009 10:55:29 GMT
I was just wondering and because I'm new and a bit naive to this site you may have been asked this question before but here we go ;D what is the oldest recorded property in the keighley area that as a society you know about  |
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Post by gemma on Nov 9, 2009 21:46:13 GMT
That is a very interesting question!...to which I don't know the answer!!! ;D
But in all seriousness, it would be interesting to know the answer. The town was mentioned in the Doomsday book but I wouldn't like to say that any of those buildings would still be standing today. I'm gonna put my money on the Parish Church.
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Post by keighleyboy on Nov 10, 2009 11:20:14 GMT
The Parish Church is fairly new stuff in the order of things, Gemma, having been cosecrated in 11 August 1848.
Low Fold, at the top of Exley Road was owned by the Paslews as Lords of the Manor until 1571, by which time the Claphams were already living there. I seem to remember it being up for sale some short time ago.
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Post by gemma on Nov 10, 2009 20:40:49 GMT
I know it's about the third version of it but I did think the current one was older than that! Didn't know about Low Fold being so old either. High Fold is not as old - 1874 I think!
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2009 13:54:01 GMT
Exley Hall, the one Keighley Boy is talking about is very old, as is the row of cottages called Exley Head.............then we have in town itself, the old mansion house (fancy dress shop) with its plaque on the building at the back.
Jan
By the way Exley Hall is back up for sale
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Post by Admin on Nov 11, 2009 18:00:04 GMT
I forgot to mention the old Cotton Mill - Gresley Road....has to be oneof the oldest...still standing........BUT needs some TLC now.........Jan
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Post by alumpot on Nov 20, 2009 9:19:48 GMT
allthough not in Keighley but in the Keighley area, probably the oldest building is the Lang Kirk of Craven ( Kildwick Parish Church) I believe that this is a Norman structure
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Post by gemma on Nov 23, 2009 20:25:55 GMT
Flippin 'eck vale  - you kow some stuff you do! |
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Post by Admin on Nov 23, 2009 23:18:37 GMT
Vale is a font of information - we should all keep tapping.........there is a lot in there - keep it coming Vale..................we all missed you..........glad to see you back.
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Post by parkwoodgirl on Nov 25, 2009 21:28:36 GMT
There are three farms on the moorland of Thwaites Brow that date back to the Domesday Book. The original Currer Laithe was built during the reign of Henry VIIIth.
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Post by mrd on Dec 9, 2009 19:26:21 GMT
this is all good stuff and perhaps one of you could create a list one day ? keep your eyes peeled for olde houses my freinds
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Post by barcroftlad on Dec 12, 2009 20:14:00 GMT
On my recent visit to Keighley I visited old friends in arguably one of Haworth's oldest,Sowdens Farm, 1600 and something. The former home of the Rev Wm Grimshaw, the fire and brimstone preacher contemporary of the Wesleys. They sure built houses to last in those days. Cheers.
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Post by mrd on Dec 14, 2009 20:10:57 GMT
im not promising anything but it will keep me quiet for a few years i will dig out my magnifing glass and deer stalker hat and trawl the local area with my trusty companion leo the dog..
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Post by Admin on Dec 14, 2009 21:15:12 GMT
Mr D Please go out with Leo, when you have both the time and the inclination. Andy and I usually have a couple of cameras with us when we go out, I personally would love to get down the old riverside and northbeck down through the valley, not sure it is easily navigable.......perhaps next summer....we could all go for a walk to see what we can find...  Jan It is amazing what you see when the trees have died back or been trimmed, I never ever saw the old house on Parkwood Street, which is scheduled for demolition I think, I saw the planning for 6 houses to be built there. I took pictures last year BUT NOW the vandals look to have been at it...............what a shame!!!!!!!! |
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Post by malcolm on Jan 10, 2010 22:09:16 GMT
Hi there,
Has the weather frozen your knowledge? Why should we remember? Let Bradford Met be useful for once.
See the Keighley Town Centre Conservation Area Report to identify the oldest (surviving) building in the town (page 16)
Other conservation area reports are equally valuable as the work has already been done.
Regards
M
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Post by Admin on Jan 11, 2010 10:57:21 GMT
I think that is just within the Town Centre isn't it Malcolm...............I think we were just having fun trying to remember which ones we knew about.......................?? I have all the Conservation Reports printed off, as Malcolm says very very useful to have. Lists all the major central buildings and gives a full description of the type of buildings and material used. Hope you are surviving out there Malcolm. Jan  |
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Post by arthurscott on Mar 29, 2010 23:04:12 GMT
On my recent visit to Keighley I visited old friends in arguably one of Haworth's oldest,Sowdens Farm, 1600 and something. The former home of the Rev Wm Grimshaw, the fire and brimstone preacher contemporary of the Wesleys. They sure built houses to last in those days. Cheers. Funny you should mention Sowdens Farm.. I spent my formative years at number six Sowdens.. We got electricity in 1957 (no more breaking gas mantles and getting into trouble.) I helped my Dad remove stone slabs above the kitchen and lay a wooden floor. My job as a child at Sowdens was to fill water buckets at the hand pump in the farmyard. Mitchell's who owned the farm the time had running water installed in the mistal circa 1958 making my chore a little easier. I still chuckle at the cows lifting their tails in unison and urinating every morning as I filled the buckets. If my memory is correct "1651" was chiseled into a brick above our doorway. We lived in the cottage at the back of the main farmhouse. . |
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Post by barcroftlad on Mar 29, 2010 23:57:48 GMT
On my recent visit to Keighley I visited old friends in arguably one of Haworth's oldest,Sowdens Farm, 1600 and something. The former home of the Rev Wm Grimshaw, the fire and brimstone preacher contemporary of the Wesleys. They sure built houses to last in those days. Cheers. Funny you should mention Sowdens Farm.. I spent my formative years at number six Sowdens.. We got electricity in 1957 (no more breaking gas mantles and getting into trouble.) I helped my Dad remove stone slabs above the kitchen and lay a wooden floor. My job as a child at Sowdens was to fill water buckets at the hand pump in the farmyard. Mitchell's who owned the farm the time had running water installed in the mistal circa 1958 making my chore a little easier. I still chuckle at the cows lifting their tails in unison and urinating every morning as I filled the buckets. If my memory is correct "1651" was chiseled into a brick above our doorway. We lived in the cottage at the back of the main farmhouse. . Nice one Arthur-that would be the date I remembered seeing carved there. Harry Mitchell is the person I visited-I have known the Mitchells since childhood from their days up Lees Moor at the farm which became Quarry House restaurant. My dad worked for the Mitchells in the quarries at Lees Moor when he left school and Harry's uncle and auntie, Frank and Alice Mitchell were my god parents. Cheers. |
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