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• Keighley War Weapons Week, Nov.30th - Dec 7th.

• Home Guard formed as the Local Defence Force.


• Battle-scarred Messerschmitt is displayed in the Town Hall Square for War Weapons Week.

Townfield Gate bus station fully opens.
Food rationing introduced.

Start of the Blitz and the Battle of Britain.

•Winston Churchill becomes P.M.

Trotsky assassinated.
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