Keighley College rewarded its longest serving engineering lecturer with a lifetime achievement award this week.

Maurice Kettlewell, who taught in the college for 31 years, was given the Lifetime Award for Services to Engin-eering Training at his former department's open evening.

Thinking he was only going to be presenting prizes, Mr Kettlewell was delighted to accept the award from his successor, Brian Swale. Mr Kettle-well was thanked for his great achievement in being responsible for the training of almost all engineers in the Keighley area.

The evening was also about showing off the college's top apprentices on the NVQ Basic Engineering course. They got to display their work to some of the largest engineering companies in the country, including O&K Escalators, Spooners of Ilkley, Ellisons Holdings and Moorside Engineering.

and Hewitt and Topham.

Potential engineering students also got to have a look round the students' work to get an idea of what the industry is about.

Pictured are Daniel Seaton and his father Kevin, with some of Daniel's work,

Kevin is to work at the internationally renowned Landis Lund engineering firm, having achieved his NVQ level 2 qualification.

This open evening was the end of an era for engineering training in Keighley as the Dalton Lane site transfers to purpose built workshops in the college's Harold Town building this summer.

Keighley College has an enviable reputation for engineering training, boasting last year's BTEC HNC student of the year in Angela Bates.

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