Name/Title
Token for Public Accomodation On PennyEntry/Object ID
2025.1.85Description
Overstruck ‘Keighley’ one penny token for Public accommodationContext
On February 24th, 1767, the Leeds Intelligencer advertised for a master and mistress to manage the workhouse in 'Kighley'. Applicants were invited to contact Mr James Barwick, a grocer in Keighley.
A parliamentary report of 1777 listed local workhouses in operation in Keighley (for up to 40 inmates), Bingley (40), and Haworth (28).
From 1790, Keighley's workhouse was in rented premises at Exley Head, to the south-west of the town on the Oakworth road.Acquisition
Accession
2025.1Source or Donor
Gordon DempsterAcquisition Method
Transfer
