Catalogue description Bob Cryer, Bradford and Keighley MP, files re Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

This record is held by West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford

Details of 31D94
Reference: 31D94
Title: Bob Cryer, Bradford and Keighley MP, files re Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
Description:

Comprising mainly of files which contain minutes from the various sub-committeees (including Finance and Legal and Traffic, Civil Maintenance, Rolling Stock, Exhibition and Publicity, Museum, Editorial and Publications), reports, correspondence, rough notes and ephemera concerning the Keighley and Worth Valley Preservation Society. Bob Cryer was the Chairman of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and was heavily involved in the set-up in 1962, running and organisation of the Preservation Society for the railway. He also edited and co-ordinated a quarterly review about the Society, 'Push and Pull'. (The BBC film The Railway Children was filmed on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and there are several documents relating to this.)
Date: 1874-1982
Held by: West Yorkshire Archive Service, Bradford, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Creator:

Cryer, Bob, fl 1982, MP of Bradford
Physical description: 40.08m boxes
Subjects:
  • Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire
  • Railway transport

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