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Cliffe Castle Museum Keighley
Museum of Rail Travel Keighley
Wesley Place Methdist Church KeighleyCliffe Castle Vintage Carriages Bus Museum Keighley West Yorkshire UK
Keighley is rich in transport history with the Worth Valley Railway providing the focus with the provenance of the Railway Children film. But for real enthusiasts of transport history there is lots more to see in the Keighley Bus Museum and the Vintage Carriages Trust Museum. Keighley also has some interesting buildings, like Cliffe Castle and the Weslet Place Methodist Church.
Keighley Bus Museum
Keighley Bus Museum is situated on Old Dalton Lane and has a collection of over fifty buses and coaches dating from 1927 to the late 1970s. Around 20 vehicles in the collection are in full running orders whilst about 30 are awaiting restoration.
Riverside Depot is just off Dalton Lane behind Dalton Mills, about 15 mins walk from Keighley Town Centre. For a map, directions and opening times checkout the Keighley Bus Museum's webguide
www.kbmt.org.uk
Museum of Rail Travel, Vintage Carriages Trust Keighley
The Vintage Carriages Trust Museum of Rail Travel is situated alongside Ingrow Station on The Keighley & Worth Valley Line. Here you can step aboard old vintage carriages and hear tales of ordinary passengers in the past.
The Vintage Carriages Trust Museum of Rail Travel, Ingrow Railway Centre (on the main A629 Keighley to Halifax road), South Street, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD21 5AX. Tel. 01535 680425.
The Museum of Rail Travel is open from 11.00 am - 4.30 pm every day except 25 December. Special openings outside those times can be made by arrangement. School parties are welcomed by prior arrangement.
Cliffe Castle Museum Keighley
Following the trail of 'kitch castles' in the area (see also Dobroyd Castle in Todmorden) Cliffe Caste, purchased by the Butterfield family in the 1840s, is well worth a visit. The Butterfield family were somewhat eccentric mill owners and successful worsted spinners and manufacturers.
It was Henry Isaac Butterfield (1819-1910), the most eccentric of the Butterfields who transformed Cliffe Hall into Cliffe Castle with gothic 'Grand Tower' and glass conservatories in 1878.
Particular highlights include the extensive fossils, rocks and minerals collection and the William Morris stained glass. The collection of olds toys held here at Cliffe Castles is another feature. Activities and events take place throughout the year, with changing exhibitions pulling on the museum's extensive collection. Find out more via the Cliffe Castle Museum webguide link right.
Cliffe Castle Museum, Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 6LH. Tel. 01535 618231. Open Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 5pm, Sunday 12 noon - 5pm. Closed Mondays (except Bank Holidays), Good Friday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
East Riddlesden Hall 17thC. Manor House Keighley
Used as one of the 1992 film locations for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, East Riddlesden Hall is a veritable feast for finding out about Yorkshire's Civil War heritage. A superb choice as a family day out, the house has extensive grounds with kids playground and grass maze on-site. For more information see the National Trust's webguide link right.
East Riddlesden Hall, Bradford Road, Keighley, West Yorkshire BD20 5EL. Tel. 01535 607075.
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