This view along North Street dates from 1924 to 1932, as can be deduced from the absence of tram-lines but the presence of trolley-wires.

Although still essentially identifiable, one glaring difference is the Regent Picture House in the left foreground.

This had opened in 1920 on the site of the Town Hall Livery Stables (not to be confused with Wetherspoon’s Livery Rooms now next door), an “excellently-appointed” establishment of 30 horses and a fleet of waggonettes, gigs, landaus, hearses and wedding and mourning coaches.

The horses were stabled on the upper floor, entering the building by means of a ramp. A bell-pull summoned attention by night, as transport was available at all hours.

The Regent showed the first ‘talkie’ in Keighley – Blackmail in 1930 – and was the first in Keighley to open on a Sunday in 1947. Within three weeks of war breaking out, in September of 1939, it was screening Let Freedom Ring, billed as “a pulse-stirring drama of the fight for freedom”.

The cinema closed in 1964, converting to bingo.

The photograph has been supplied by Kevin Seaton, of Shann Lane in Keighley.