TWO men with a motorbike and sidecar, plus a dog, a Christmas tree and a lot of holly, pose alongside the Keighley Market stall of fruiterers Harry and Albert Hoyle in the 1920s.
On the motorbike sits George A Shore, proprietor of a carpet and linoleum warehouse in the market and an active early member of the Keighley Road Club. He was also a well-known wedding and freelance press photographer, contributing many between-the-wars images to the Keighley News.
In the sidecar amid the festive greenery sits his young assistant Sam Scaife, who was to take over the business after Mr Shore’s death in 1946. A founder member of the Yorkshire Floor-Covering Trades Association, he used to deliver rolls of carpet and linoleum by motorbike and sidecar. During the 1930s he also promoted professional boxing in the Keighley Drill Hall.
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