Dewhirst, Ian
DEWHIRST, Ian
DEWHIRST, Ian. British, b. 1936. Genres: Poetry, History, Novellas/Short stories. Career: Reference Librarian, Keighley Public Library, 1967-91 (Library Assistant, 1960-65; Lending Librarian, 1965-67). Member Committee of Yorkshire Dialect Society, 1964-2001. Member, Editorial Board, Orbis, 1970-75. Publications: The Handloom Weaver and Other Poems, 1965; The Haworth Water-Wolf, and Other Yorkshire Stories, 1967; Scar Top, and Other Poems, 1968; Gleanings from Victorian Yorkshire, 1972; A History of Keighley, 1974; Yorkshire Through the Years, 1975; The Story of a Nobody, 1980; You Don't Remember Bananas, 1985; Keighley in Old Picture Postcards, 1987; Keighley in the 1930s and 1940s, 1989; Victorian Keighley Characters, 1990; In the Reign of the Peacemaker, 1993; Down Memory Lane, 1993; Images of Keighley, 1996. EDITOR: A Poet Passed…Poems by Alfred Holdsworth, 1968; A Century of Yorkshire Dialect, 1997. COMPILER: Old Keighley in Photographs, 1972; More Old Keighley in Photographs, 1973. Address: 14 Raglan Ave, Fell Lane, Keighley, W. Yorkshire BD22 6BJ, England.