Title: not available
Presenter: Lesley Horton
Date: 20.10.04
Time: not available
Description: not available
Title: Talk & Book Signing
Presenter: Claire Rayner
Date: 06.10.04
Time: 2pm
Description: A talk and book signing by the Uk’s best-known agony aunt.
Claire Rayner OBE, journalist, novelist and broadcaster is author of over 90 books and patron of more than 60 social and charitable organisations. Come and meet her at Keighley Library Lecture Hall
Wednesday 6th October 2004 at 2.00pm
Tickets £5.00 Concessions £3.00 available from Keighley Library
Refreshments provided.
Title: The Brontës
Presenter: Juliette Barker
Date: 15.09.04
Time: not available
Description: not available
Title: Centenary Day
Presenter: Library Staff
Date: 20.08.04
Time: 12 noon
Description: His Grace the Duke of Devonshire CBE will 'reopen' the Library
and then attend a Civic Reception hosted by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun.
Irene Ellison-Wood. Entertainment and a cake will be provided in Town Hall Square
from 12 noon.
Title: Children's Activities: The
Magic Postman
Presenter: Andy Stamps
Date: 23.08.04
Time: 11am-12 noon
Description: not available
Title: Children's Activities:Storytime
Presenter: Library Staff
Date: 20.08.04
Time: 2-3pm
Description: not available
Title: Children's Activities:Storytime
Presenter: Library Staff
Date: 16.08.04
Time: 11am-12 noon
Description: not available
Title: Children's Activities:Storytime
Presenter: Library Staff
Date: 09.08.04
Time: 11am-12 noon
Description: not available
Title: History of the Keighley &
Worth Valley Railway
Presenter: David Pearson
Date: 21.07.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description: David has been a member of the KWVR Preservation Society for many
years and is currently Secretary. He has written articles for their magazine
‘Push and Pull’ and has given many talks on the railway’s
history.
Title: Alex Keighley - The link
between
photography and art
Presenter: Ray Vintner M.A
Date: 14.07.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description: Ray lectures in Art History at Bradford and Leeds Universities
and has done a study of the work of Alex Keighley who was a founder member of
the Keighley & District Photographic Association and a world-renowned photographer.
Title: A Century of Public Transport
in Keighley
Presenter: Graham Mitchell
Date: 07.08.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description: Keighley & District Transport is also celebrating its Centenary
this year and Coun. Mitchell is organising their celebrations. For years connected
with the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway he now helps run Keighley Bus Museum.
Title: Maps for Local History
Presenter: Stephen Wood
Date: 30.06.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description:Steve resides in Haworth and has studied the history of the locality
for many years. He has copied and produced a list of all the occupants of Haworth
shown on the Tithe Award map of 1852 as well as reproducing the trade directories
and indexing the parish registers.
Title: History of The Keighley News
Presenter: Malcolm Hoddy
Date: 23.06.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description: Malcolm Hoddy has been editor of the Keighley News for the last
10 years and has been a staunch supporter of the library service during that
time. Newspapers have changed their format considerably since the Keighley News
was first published in 1862 and are a fascinating source of local history.
Title: Home: The Romance of House
History
Presenter: Julie Myerson
Date:22.06.04
Time:6.30pm
Description:
Julie Myerson has written several very successful novels including Laura Blundy, a popular reading group book. Her latest book, Home - the story of everyone who ever lived in our house, tells the story of the families who lived in her house going back 130 years, and the detective work she put in to excavate those people and their lives.
Title: Keighley's Sporting Life
Presenter: Rob Grillo
Date: 16.06.04
Time: 7.30pm
Description: Rob Grillo is a teacher at Greenhead Grammar School who has written
several books – Chasing Glory and Glory Denied
about Association Football in Keighley and Staying the Distance
on the subject of running in the Keighley area. This is the first time he has
given a talk in the Library so please give him your support!
Title: Family Reading Day
Presenter: Various
Date:29.05.04
Time:10.30am-4pm
Description: 10.30-11.30 Storytime & Reading, led by library staff. There
will be two groups, one for under 5s and one for older children.
2-3pm Roop Singh, a captivating storyteller, will transport you around the world
with a stock of brilliant stories.
Title: Local and Family History
Day
Presenter: Various
Date: 22.05.04
Time: 10am-4pm
Description: not available
Title: Carnegie and his libraries
Presenter: Robert Duckett
Date:04.05.04
Time:2.30pm
Description: Bob Duckett retired recently as Reference Librarian of the Central
Library in Bradford after some thirty years service. Before coming to Bradford
he worked in Birmingham, Bangor (North Wales) and Croydon. Bob is the editor
of Brontë Studies, the Bradford
Antiquary and two volumes of Aspects of Bradford.
He is co-author of an award-winning book on finding information and is currently
writing a book on Yorkshire libraries.
Title: Keighley from 1950
Presenter: Charlie Bhowmick
Date: 20.04.04
Time: 2.30pm
Description:By Michael Taylor
Community worker Charlie Bhowmick is giving a talk and slideshow as part of
Keighley Library's centenary celebrations. Originally from Calcutta, India,
Charlie moved to Keighley when he was only 17. Invited to the Devonshire Street
Congregational Church youth club, he converted to Christianity in 1955. It was
through the church that he met his wife Cynthia, 65, and the couple have two
sons.The 66-year old was the first Asian to work in local government in Keighley.
A keen cricket fan, he threw himself into community projects on his retirement.
He is now heavily involved with 'Inter-Faith', which was launched in 2000 to
help bring the many groups in Keighley closer together and promote friendship
and harmony. Charlie has also donated a copy of his slides to the library archive,
as a permanent resource.
Title: Wartime Keighley
Presenter: Ian Dewhirst
Date: 30.03.04
Time: 2.30pm
Description: Ian Dewhirst was born in Keighley in 1936 and was educated at Keighley
Boys' Grammar School and the University of Manchester. After National Service
as a Sergeant-Instructor in the Royal Army Educational Corps, he started work
in 1960 at Keighley Public Library, where he was Reference Librarian from 1967
until taking early retirement in 1991. He writes and lectures extensively on
local history.
Title: History of Keighley Library
Presenter: Pauline Barfield
Date: 16.03.04
Time: 2.30pm
Description:
REVIEW
The second in a series of talks to celebrate the centenary year of Keighley
Public Library took place in the lecture hall at the library on the afternoon
of 16th March 2004.
An enthusiastic audience of 17 were present to hear the inspiring and informative
story of ‘The History of Keighley Library’ from Senior Information
Manager, Pauline Barfield.
From its early origins as the library of the Mechanics Institute to the modern
day service, the audience heard the full and interesting history of Keighley
Library including the tale of how Keighley came to be the first town in England
to benefit from the munificence of Andrew Carnegie and also to be the first
town to confer its freedom on Mr. Carnegie.
The talk was very well received and prompted an informal discussion including
questions and positive comments about the library with some interesting reflections
and recollections about the past service as well as some thoughts for the future.
Afterwards, Councillor Laurence Brocklesby proposed a vote of thanks on behalf
of all those present and the speaker was presented with flowers from the staff
of Keighley Local Studies Library.
Title: Keighley - A Typical Pennine
Town?
Presenter: George Sheeran
Date: 04.03.04
Time: 2.30pm
Description:
George Sheeran works in the School of Lifelong Education at the University of Bradford where he is the head of the Pennine and Yorkshire Studies Unit. He teaches on the Local and Regional Studies Degree and his areas of research are the historic landscape and urban environment.
REVIEW
George Sheeran gave a very interesting talk on the development of Keighley during
the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries setting the scene for the introduction of
the Public Library in 1904. About 20 people attended and were very interested
in what he had to say. The talk was illustrated with slides and overheads.
Title: Mushaira
Presenter: Various
Date: 11.02.04
Time: 2.30pm
Description:
The Mushaira is a lively evening of
Asian poetry, with plenty of audience input. Local and national poets will be
participating. Refreshments are available at the session.
REVIEW
'The Mushaira was a great success with over 40 people attending. The President,
Dr Mukht Ar-Ud-Din Ahmed from Sheffield, led half a dozen poets in recitals
of their poetry to an appreciative audience. Refreshments were provided by the
Sangat Centre. Hopefully a similar event will be organised for later in the
year.'
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