Stockbridge mothers joined in the fun from the bank while keeping an eye on their offspring.

A cumbersome pram has been trundled down to the river.

One woman has brought a chair, and a girl standing at the front of the pram is trying to emulate being at the seaside with a bucket for making sand-castles.

Both Stockbridge scenes were taken by William Speight, a secretary of the Keighley and District Photographic Association, who lived at Riddlesden and who contributed pictures to the Keighley News.

Stockbridge was severely hit by flooding in 2000 when the River Aire burst its banks.

The lives of many residents were turned upside down.

Around 400 homes were flooded in the autumn of that year, forcing many people to spend a miserable Christmas in temporary accommodation.

Cath and John Andrews recalled getting a phone call at five o'clock in the morning, warning them a flood was "imminent".

They and their pet cat were evacuated from their Worth Avenue home in unorthodox fashion – they were lifted out in the shovel of a mechanical digger.

It was five-and-a-half months before they could return to their house.

Mrs Andrews told the Keighley News: "We had most of our important and sentimental possessions upstairs but we still lost an awful lot. It all happened so suddenly."