Career
He regularly appears on local television, writes for newspapers and magazines, and gives historical talks. Dewhirst has written countless books about Yorkshire. Many being based on the history of his town.
He writes a weekly column entitled "Memory Lane" in the towns" newspaper, The Keighley News.
Subsequently he has affectionately become known as Mr Keighley, and in 2009, he had a train named in his honour. Ian Dewhirst was born in Keighley in West Yorkshire in 1936.
He attended Keighley Boys" Grammar School and subsequently went on to graduate in Honours English at the University of Manchester in 1958.
