These members and friends of the Haworth Wesleyan Cricket Club were photographed during their annual outing in June of 1912.

They had travelled by train to Ingrow, then in waggonettes to Bolton Woods, where they played a friendly game before tea. In the sedate language of the period, this trip “was greatly enjoyed”.

The Haworth Wesleyans were having a successful season in the Keighley and District League, winning the First Division championship, with the loss of only one match.

The presence here of the cricketers’ ladies was not altogether typical of men’s excursions.

An item of 1902 in the minutes of the Keighley Glee Union was deemed a “landmark” in its history: Resolved “that each member of the Union be invited to take his wife or sweetheart on the occasion of our trip to Bolton Woods and Skipton, and that the cost of same be defrayed out of the funds of the society”.

This must not have proved a success. A proposal in 1903 “that annual excursion be made this year without wives” was carried by a majority!