Keighley, North Street c.1910
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New buildings along North Street included the Court House (1831) and the Mechanics' Institute (1834). The Post Office of 1839 was superseded by a new one in Bow Street (1891). The air of Victorian prosperity is clear to see. Rails for horse trams were laid in 1889, and the system was electrified in 1904. On the left are the police station (1887), the Temperance Institute (1896) and, just out of shot, the Public Library, the first in the country to be financed by the American steel millionaire, Andrew Carnegie. The Mechanics' Institute, opened in 1870, gained its clock in 1892. The building was gutted by fire in 1962, and part of the remaining section was incorporated in the new college.
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