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Men of Worth Project
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Andy Wade, Historian. Author.
We research Keighley & Worth Valley people who served in wartime. We remember their service and try to ensure they’re not forgotten. Est. 2001, QAVS 2021.
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Men of Worth Project @menofworth.bsky.social · Oct 31
Yesterday we launched our #Oakworth #Remembrance #Trail. We installed 96 boards on lamp-posts around our village, next to, or close to the homes of the Oakworth men who died in the first and second world wars. A QR Code guides visitors to their biographies on our website:
www.menofworth.org.uk/trail
Seven out of the eight adult volunteers who came out to install the 96 Oakworth Remembrance Trail Boards on Thursday 30th October 2025. Each volunteer is holding a white A3 sized correx board printed with details of a serviceman who died in either the First or the Second World Wars, which will go on to lamp-posts near their homes from before they enlisted. Behind this group is a large laurel hedge and a drystone wall. A man is standing in front of a stage in a village hall and he is holding a clipboard. He is talking to a large group of people seated on several rows of chairs, many of whom are Army Cadets and Sea Cadets in uniform. Nobody has fallen asleep, yet...
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Our November #HuttedHistories on Wednesday 26th is the last one of 2025, and a home grown one too!

Lyndsay will be talking about Biscuits at War - ‘They Shall Grow Not Mould’.
It’s a great talk - come and join us. There’s cake and biscuits too!

Tickets: www.greatwarhuts.org/event-detail...
November 13, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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We are back!🎄

110 years after the First World War Taff opens the batting, once again, with some natty pieces of 1915 headgear and introduces #HutVent2025

(With grateful thanks to Ramsey Green)

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December 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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On the second day of #HutVent2025 Taff tells the story of the Military Cross and the tale of one particular recipient...

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December 2, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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It's Day 3 of #HutVent2025 and Kieran has a fascinating German publication to share with us! 🗞️

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December 3, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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greatwarhuts.bsky.social
On Day 4 of #HutVent2025 Taff is looking at the role of Army Drummers...

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December 4, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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On the 5th Day of #HutVent2025 Kev tells us about Spicer Goggles and lachrymatory gas...

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December 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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We have a special guest for Day 6 of #HutVent2025 to help Lyndsay tell the story of a 1915 biscuity present (there were always going to be biscuits!)...

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#HutVent
December 6, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Read more of William’s remarkable story here 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
#Genealogy #WW1 #MilitaryHistory #History

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December 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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I love finding variant prints made from the same negative within the same collection 👇🏼

(These ones belong to the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada Museum & Archives).
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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chiddickstree.bsky.social
During the summer of 2025 I visited the WW1 battlefields and I made a promise. At every cemetery I visited, I would choose one individual, not known to me, and tell their story. This is the final story……..#WW1 #Genealogy #MilitaryHistory #History

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Before the Guns Fell Silent: The Final Days of Private Crump
Private William Richards Crump was born in Birmingham in 1893, the youngest of two boys born to Minnie Crump. His baptism, alongside that of his older brother Francis, took place on 11 August 1894 …
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December 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Just added a section from the local newspaper describing the solemn mass at St. Anne's Church shortly after they dedicated their Great War Memorial. The memorial is one of #Keighley's finest and their ceremony must have been quite an occasion:

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#GreatWar #WW1 #FWW
A beautiful war memorial which is on permanent display in the entrance to St. Anne's Roman Catholic Church at Keighley. It is made from salmon pink alabaster and light grey bath stone with the lettering picked out in gold. There are 121 names of local men from the church who died during the First World War.
December 5, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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🚨NEXT WEEK!🚨

Railway Work, Life & Death project co-lead Mike is privileged to give the 2025 @balhnews.bsky.social Dymond Lecture!

‘Heads – you lose!’ Working for the railways in Britain before 1939

Thursday 11 December 2025, 7pm, online

#LocalHistory #Railway200

www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025
Posed staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a guard's van, about to hit his head on a passing signal post. The image caption reads 'Heads - you lose!', with explanatory text above.
December 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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My latest book is released today.

It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment during their advance on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12th August 1915.

I've provided a link to where you can buy a copy in the comments.

#WW1 #Norfolk #FWW #Gallipoli #history
December 1, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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I've been able to hold a physical copy of my new book today.

It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12th August 1915.

It's on sale now & I've left a link to where you can get a copy in the comments.

#WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli
December 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Join us next week for our Annual Dymond Lecture. This year's speaker is Dr Mike Esbester, who will be exploring the hidden human stories behind Britain's railways.

Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/dymond2025

#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
1920s posed railway staff safety image, showing a railwayman leaning out of a carriage, but his head is about to hit a signal post. The caption reads ‘Heads – you lose! Is it safe to lean out of or open the doors of vehicles in motion where there are pillars, ladders, walls or bridges, unless you are satisfied there is sufficient clearance?’
December 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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One of my favourite collections that I've ever worked with was this set of Magic Lantern Slides produced during the First World War. They came to us packed in wooden crates, and we re-housed them into custom-made archival boxes, and had them digitized.
December 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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We’ll that’s all the #Oakworth #Remembrance Trail boards down. Just got to clean them and get them packed away. At least three seem to have been stolen from the lampposts?
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A big pile of white A3 size lamppost display boards in the back of a minibus. A lamppost affixed with an A3 size display board which tells the story of a local man who died in the First World War. It’s near his house.
November 30, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Death penny for 2286 LSgt William Hope Jones, 3rd Bn, Mons Reg. The penny has been elaborately framed in wood and brass. LSgt Jones died of wounds on December 20th 1915 and is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, near Boulogne. He was 25 years old.
#LestWeForget #WW1 #sacrifice
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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In most cases, they are the first, second and third lines of a unit of the Territorial Force. They are prefixed 1/, 2/ and 3/. A very few 4/ existed. See more at www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/the-ter...
The Territorial Force - The Long, Long Trail
What was the Territorial Force? The Territorial Force (TF) was created as part of the reforms of the British Army carried out […]
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November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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This distinctive monument marks the burial plave of former Halifax timber merchant William McClellan Chambers, who died on this day in 1885 at the age of 41.
The image shows a stone carved monument consisting of a tree stump decorated with a flower garland, an anchor and a cross. The surname name Chambers appears above an inscription which reads: In loving memory of William McClellan Chambers. Born 26th August 1844, died 24th November 1885. Also of five infants.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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On this day in 1918 William Hinnells was buried at Salthouse church; thousands of miles from his daughter who he'd only known for a few weeks before he left to go to war
A Soldiers Heart: The tale of William Hinnells
A battle of a different kind
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November 24, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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And if you're only just coming to the amazing story of the California Clipper, we are genuinely so excited for you — it is, as we say here in The Up Front Towers, an absolute bloody ripper.

Start here: theupfront.media/the-long-way... #avgeek
The Long Way Round: The remarkable journey of the California Clipper, Part 1
In 1941, the Japanese attacked Hawaii, leaving Pan Am flight 18602 trapped the wrong side of Pearl Harbor, To get home, its civilian crew would have to do something incredible: circumnavigate the worl...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
menofworth.bsky.social
Some details of the #Bradford Wool Exchange. A grade one listed building which is the setting for #Waterstones Bookshop. I wonder how many people look up at the beautiful ceiling?
A beautiful arched timber framed ceiling inside the Bradford Wool Exchange building. There is a six pointed star window at the end and at the bottom of the image, rows of bookshelves. A section of tiled wall with a double diamond pattern in green tiles. The centre of each diamond is filled with colourful tiles forming a flower design.
November 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The latest addition to our website blog is Private Walter Blenkarn of #Keighley and his story is available to read here:
menofworth.org.uk/walter-blenk...
Wounded three times, he died of the last one in a hospital in Manchester. His family had it's fair share of tragedies with several child deaths.
Private Walter Blenkarn -
Walter's parents were Charles Henry Blenkarn and Ann Mary Blenkarn née Pullan. They were married on the 19th of August 1882 at Keighley Parish Church
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November 18, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Added to our website blog this morning is the story of Serjeant Anthony Ginley (alias Foy) killed in action in 1944.
The original inquiry about his family memorial at Utley Cemetery coming from Paul Skinner some years ago, was researched and written up Rob Gillard:

menofworth.org.uk/anthony-foy/
Serjeant Anthony Foy -
Anthony Foy was killed in the Second World War. His real surname was Ginley but he was serving under his mother's maiden name of Foy and his details on the
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November 15, 2025 at 11:28 AM