DEMONSTRATING the strength of the Edwardian Sunday School movement, these scholars and teachers had gathered from Lees and Bocking Wesleyans and Cross Roads Primitive Methodists for their annual united festival.
They mustered approximately 700 in 1910.
Led by the Haworth Brass Band, they walked in procession from the Lees schools to Myrtle Grove, the home of TH Haggas, where they sang hymns, as they also did at Barcroft House, whose owner lent them a field for sports. After adjourning for tea in their separate schoolrooms, they met again for their games, while the Haworth Band “played a long programme of selections”.
The photograph has been supplied by Maurice Baren, of Haworth, who has included it in his recent history of Lees Methodist Church. He quotes a detail regarding the tea, which included “a bag containing three kinds of confectionery” and was free for scholars and teachers, whereas “strangers” were charged threepence.
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