Alexander Smith
Alexander Smith was born in 1915 and lived at Cromer Avenue at Ingrow, he had the foresight to take many pictures of Keighley, his son Allan had the same idea some years later. The Keighley shown on this pictorial record is long gone.
Allan, has shared the many photographs which Alexander took as an 18 year old boy - this is a fantastic archive of old pictures.
Allan still has his fathers Ensign Carbine bellows camera. Allan is immensly proud of what his father was, and his memory lives on in his many pictures of our town.
As a lad, Alexander worked at Frank Butterfield's shop in the Royal Arcade in Low Street, for the princely sum of thirty shillings per week. He swept the arcade every morning.
He tells Allan of how, when houses were being built at Hospital Road, Riddlesden, he pushed a wheelbarrow containing .all the nails and screws across Station Bridge and down Bradford Road.
Alexander and his wife were married for almost 63 years, and died within seven weeks of each other in 2004.
His legacy lives on