 More than £3,000 was donated in the first season.In 1957, the Keighley board bought Lawkholme Lane football ground, cricket ground, bowling green and cottages of land in total, from the Duke of Devonshire for £10,000 paid for in sums of £2,500 a year.When the Hard Ings Road by-pass was built Keighley recouped some of their money by selling off a piece of land where cottages had been, for the erection of a petrol station.