This view from the top of Cavendish Street can be dated to the very beginning of the 20th century because the new Cavendish Hotel is the last building on the left-hand side.

Older properties beyond had recently been demolished to make way for a finer Cavendish Street which was meant to rival North Street for "architectural effect, width and symmetry".

In the left foreground --the site now occupied by Keighley College -- are two of the town's most prominent former buildings, the Mechanics Institute and the United Methodist Free Church.

At this date, the former housed the Municipal Hall, the Trade and Grammar School and the School of Science and Art.

The latter, nicknamed "t' Cock Chapel" on account of the weathercock on top of its 125ft spire -- the tallest in Keighley -- would close for worship in 1937. During the war it served as headquarters of the Keighley Squadron of the Air Training Corps.

About 1900 these tall lamps stood down the middle of the top end of Cavendish Street.

The wooden huts just visible on the right were alongside the corporation stone-yard on the site of the present Town Hall Square.