THIS well-stocked store of the Keighley Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd in 1922 seems top-heavy with advertisements for CWS Biscuits and Congress Soap.

A poster towards the right-hand side serves as a reminder that the Co-operative movement, in addition to its retail and manufacturing roles, played a cultural part in the lives of its members – there is to be a Grand Concert by the Orpheus Prize Quartette in the Co-operative Assembly Rooms in Brunswick Street.

This formed part of a series of monthly events organised by an education committee, and attracted “a large and appreciative audience”. In 1922 there was also an active Keighley Co-operative Men’s Guild, which held weekly meetings with talks on such subjects as Brotherhood: the Need of the Age, Sir Thomas More’s ‘Utopia’, The Productive Side of the Co-operative Movement and How To Keep Well.