Editing Keighley (section)

== Community and culture ==
{{anchor|Keighley Market}}
[[File:Keighley Market.jpg|thumb|Keighley [[Market Hall]]<ref name="telegraph-argus/4375773">{{cite news |title=Anger at lack of access to market |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4375773.no-ramp-at-low-street-entrance-to-keighley-market/ |access-date=19 July 2024 |work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus |date=18 May 2009 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="accessable/keighley-MH">{{cite web |title=The Keighley Market Hall |url=https://www.accessable.co.uk/city-of-bradford-metropolitan-district-council/access-guides/the-keighley-market-hall |website=AccessAble |access-date=19 July 2024}}</ref>]]

<blockquote>"On-street trading took place in Keighley, around the Church Green area, for 500 years before the establishment of a formal market in 1833. The market was situated at the west end of Low Street. This area was redeveloped in the late 1960s and a purpose-built covered market hall was constructed...The new building was opened by Keighley town mayor Sydney Bancroft in June, 1971."<ref name="keighleynews/17813952">{{cite news |title=MEMORY LANE: Mayoral launch for Keighley’s market hall |url=https://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/17813952.memory-lane-mayoral-launch-keighleys-market-hall/ |access-date=19 July 2024 |work=[[Keighley News]] |date=3 August 2019 |language=en}}</ref></blockquote>

Much of the town centre has been pedestrianised. Keighley has Keighley [[Market Hall]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Keighley Market |url=https://www.bradfordmarkets.com/the-markets/keighley/ |website=Bradford Markets |access-date=19 July 2024}}</ref> four large supermarkets, Morrisons, Sainsbury's, Aldi and Asda. There are several budget supermarkets situated in small retail parks around the town.
[[File:Airedale Centre, Keighley interior.jpg|thumb|Airedale Centre]]
The Airedale shopping centre is a large indoor [[Shopping mall|shopping precinct]] which houses most of the town's high street retail chains. The Airedale Shopping Centre housed the {{convert|12|ft||adj=mid|-tall}} statue of the giant Rombald holding a boulder above his head. It was moved to a different part of the centre when a glass ceiling was added to the whole complex. A public consultation favoured placing the statue on the Beechcliffe roundabout on the [[A650 road]] approaching Keighley from the east.<ref>{{cite news |date=6 August 2004 |title=Rombald is to stay put |work=Bradford Telegraph and Argus |url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8000116.Rombald_is_to_stay_put/ |access-date=3 June 2018}}</ref> According to local legend, the giant Rombald threw a giant rock at his enemies (or in some versions of the tale his wife) killing them. The rock is the "calf" of "cow and calf" rock fame, which can be seen today at the top of Rombald's Moor on [[Ilkley Moor]].

Keighley has one cinema, [[Keighley Picture House|The Picture House]] on North Street. It opened in 1913, making it one of the oldest in Britain. A brief closure in the mid-1990s prevented it from being listed as one of the oldest in continuous operation – a record that goes to the [[Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon|Curzon Cinema]], which opened in [[Clevedon]], [[Somerset]], in 1911. It was restored from its derelict condition in 1996 by Northern Morris Associated Cinemas and operates to this day.<ref>{{cite web |title=Picture House Cinema Keighley &#124; Movies &#124; Latest Films &#124; Book Online &#124; Cinema in Keighley |url=http://keighley.nm-cinemas.co.uk/ |access-date=4 May 2020 |website=keighley.nm-cinemas.co.uk}}</ref>

Keighley has a popular local music scene. There have been various venues where local bands play. Most notable was the now-defunct CJ's bar (also known as Chrome, VW's, Cheese and Trumpet) that played host to many popular touring bands. Examples of local bands are [[the Sailmakers]], the Undecided, [[Foxes Faux]], [[Random Hand]], the Get Guns, Eyesore Angels and Dead Message, who recently parted ways after 9 years. The British rock bands [[Skeletal Family]] and [[Terrorvision]] were also originally formed in Keighley.