Greengate Mill News Today

Broach making was once a thriving Keighley trade – and a small obscure mill may have been a part of it, as Robin Longbottom explains

TOWARDS the top of Halifax Road, between Ingrow and Cross Roads, is Whins Wood Recreation Ground. It consists of a crown bowling green, pavilion and small football ground that nestle into the hillside on the site of an old quarry known as Whins Delf. In the 1870s the quarry was leased by Enoch Tempest, a stone cutter and quarryman who was born in Cross Roads in 1846. Though now largely forgotten, he was destined to be one of the north’s most prominent civil engineers. An enterprising ...