TOWARDS the end of 2019, a small ruinous building off Staveley Road in Ingrow was demolished.
It had fallen into disrepair and been vandalised after its last occupants had departed some ten years earlier.
Although largely unknown, it was a building of major significance to Keighley.
It was the first purpose-built mill of the town’s industrial era.
Its origins had nothing to do with any of the traditional trades or crafts that had previously been practised in the area. It was a water-powered wire drawing mill built by Thomas Ramsden of Halifax, a manufacturer of carding combs for the cotton and woollen industry.