PRIOR to the advent of universal television, most churches ran amateur dramatic groups which put on a wide range of shows and plays. One such was the Ingrow St John's Players.
This is a busy scene from their 1953 production of a popular post-war comedy, The Happiest Days of Your Life, by John Dighton. The plot revolves round a Hilary Hall School for Boys and a St Swithin's School for Girls, which have to share the same building.
"Complications arise", explained the Keighley News' critic, "when the Ministry of Devacuation refuses to take the girls' school away, the two sets of pupils stage a cold war and parents begin to arrive unexpectedly."
The late John R Thompson, a well-known member of the Keighley Little Theatre, played the part of a "rather pompous eccentric headmaster" seen here in the middle of the three men dressed as schoolgirls.
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