SIR - Through your paper, could I ask if anyone can give me some more information about Keighley Town, Keighley's own football team?

My dad, Matthew (Matt) Potts played for them in the thirties.

He was born in Barnsley, and came to Keighley around 1934-35.

Will someone be kind enough to tell me where their grounds were and what strip/colours they played under? How long did it last before the team wound up?

I would also appreciate any tangible memories of this team to look at, for example fixture lists and programmes.

It would be a real bonus if my dad's name was included in these items should there still be any in existence.

My seven-year-old football mad grandson would, I feel, be interested and it would make my day to see them.

Because I was a child when my dad was killed at the age of 27 I know so little about him personally, and I welcome hearing anything about the football team which any surviving team member could tell me.

If anyone from those days does have a story to tell about Keighley Town, please contact me at Weavers Cottage, 38 Bogthorn, Oakworth, Keighley, BD22 7LU.

If that story includes personal anecdotes about my dad either at Keighley Town or Riddlesden Cricket Club in the 1930s where he also played, I will be doubly appreciative.

M A WHITEHEAD

(NEE POTTS)

Bogthorn, Oakworth.

SIR - While researching my family tree I came across this letter written by my late father, before he was married, and published in the Keighley News 1915 August.

Pte John McDonnell of the 6th WR Regiment who is at the infantry base at Le Havre in a letter to the mayoress says: "The country about here is beautiful but they are looking for the time when the war is finished and they are marching up Cavendish Street."

He refers to the proposed West Gate improvement and says: "It would be good to come home after peace is declared to go up where West Gate was and see a garden city like the one at Shepherds Bush.

"On behalf of the men at Le Havre he asked for a supply of cigarettes (my pop did not smoke) "as they have not had the pleasure of having anything sent out to them from Keighley."

I wonder what he would think of West Gate now with the endless digging up and one-lane traffic.

I have never seen anything in Keighley that resembles a Garden City. Besides being given the King's shilling there was the Duke of Wellington 6th's promise to be moved out of the slums they had lived in?

I was 10 years old when our family was de-loused and moved to Braithwaite Avenue, hardly the 'Utopia' my father, bless him, dreamed of and twenty years after the 1st War.

MARTHA SCOTT,

Boothman Walk, Keighley

SIR - While researching my family tree I came across this letter written by my late father, before he was married, and published in the Keighley News 1915 August.

Pte John McDonnell of the 6th WR Regiment who is at the infantry base at Le Havre in a letter to the mayoress says: "The country about here is beautiful but they are looking for the time when the war is finished and they are marching up Cavendish Street."

He refers to the proposed West Gate improvement and says: "It would be good to come home after peace is declared to go up where West Gate was and see a garden city like the one at Shepherds Bush.

"On behalf of the men at Le Havre he asked for a supply of cigarettes (my pop did not smoke) "as they have not had the pleasure of having anything sent out to them from Keighley."

I wonder what he would think of West Gate now with the endless digging up and one-lane traffic.

I have never seen anything in Keighley that resembles a Garden City. Besides being given the King's shilling there was the Duke of Wellington 6th's promise to be moved out of the slums they had lived in?

I was 10 years old when our family was de-loused and moved to Braithwaite Avenue, hardly the 'Utopia' my father, bless him, dreamed of and twenty years after the 1st War.

MARTHA SCOTT,

Boothman Walk, Keighley