In passing hastily through the town, one hardly perceives where the necessary lawyer and doctor can live, so little appearance is there of any dwellings of the professional middle- class, such as abound in our old cathedral towns.

In fact, nothing can be more opposed than the state of society, the modes of thinking, the standards of reference on all points of morality, manners, and even politics and religion, in such a new manufacturing place as Keighley in the north, and any stately, sleepy, picturesque cathedral town in the south.

Yet the aspect of Keighley promises well for future stateliness, if not picturesqueness.

Grey stone abounds; and the rows of houses built of it have a kind of solid grandeur connected with their uniform and enduring lines.

The frame-work of the doors, and the lintels of the windows, even in the smallest dwellings, are made of blocks of stone.
There is no painted wood to require continual beautifying, or else present a shabby aspect; and the stone is kept scrupulously clean by the notable Yorkshire housewives.