PHOTOGRAPHED in 1933, this was part of a Turkey Street bedroom in which seven children and their parents slept in four beds.

This was by no means unusual. Year after year the Keighley Medical Offices of Health inveighed against bad housing and overcrowding. Turkey Street was among several he singled out in 1927 because of their “long rows of back-to-back houses”.

“In nine bedrooms were found 45 persons, ie, five in each room,” he reported in 1925, “and in each one was a consumptive.”

The solution would shortly lie in the “newly-erected houses on Guard House Estate”, to which “removal from dirty, congested hovels to the salubrious amenities of a garden suburb should of itself be an incentive to all but the most helpless and most hopeless.”