WHAT looks like a newly-resurfaced Skipton Road marches prominently through a developing Utley around the turn of the 19th century.
Substantial houses are set back from Ferncliffe Road (later upgraded to Drive!), with gardens still looking rather raw.
Slightly left of centre is the impressive 400-seater Congregational Chapel of 1872, with only one block of buildings on its left and none immediately to its right, where the Utley Stores of the Keighley Industrial Co-operative Society were to appear in 1910.
The left-hand middle distance is dominated by the variegated treeline of Utley Cemetery, a virtual arboretum.
After opening in 1857 this had doubled as a recreational amenity, when townsfolk still lacking public parks took pleasure in “walking round the cemetery”.
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