THESE members of the Lees, Cross Roads and Bocking War Memorial Committee were photographed in front of what was then called a rest house on its official opening on July 16, 1921.

This “neat little building” contained tablets listing the 39 local men who had died and another 260 who had served.

This Great War memorial encompassed the recreation ground itself, including the children’s play area, though the tennis court and bowling green were the concern of their respective clubs rather than the War Memorial Committee.

The opening ceremony featured the Keighley Borough Band and the united choirs of St James’s Church, Cross Roads Primitive Methodists and Bocking Wesleyan Chapel.

Last Post and Reveille were sounded, and hymns sung were “O God, our help in ages past” and “For all the saints who from their labours rest”.

A hundred ex-servicemen were afterwards treated to a meat tea, to which widows and families of those who had died were also invited.

This group includes the Rev J Wood, vicar of St James’s Church, TH Haggas who had given the land, and Major AB Clarkson, DSO, MC, who had officially opened the recreation ground and unveiled the tablets.