BEFORE the advent of easy universal photography, many trippers were recorded in highly informal views like this. Enterprising photographers at busy seaside locations would snap unsuspecting passers by, hoping to sell them prints.

Here are over-dressed Mr and Mrs Edgar Slater, from Caledonia Road, Keighley, strolling along what looks like a crowded pier in the 1930s. A woman behind them has been caught in the act of blowing her nose.

Except perhaps for their weddings groups, these casual snapshots represented the only time some of our forbears were photographed. They are now of historical interest by showing people as they really were, rather than having prepared a pose.