COUNTY Alderman JJ Brigg is officially opening a parish playing field at Riddlesden on Jubilee Day in May, 1935.

He is describing outings when he "remembered being brought by his school mistress when he was about nine years of age to gather snowdrops in a little croft belonging to Riddlesden Hall, and a little later he remembered coming there and they got some crayfish in the canal". Nobody seems to be really listening.

The playing field beside the River Aire occupied part of the East Riddlesden Hall grounds which County Alderman Brigg and his brother had purchased and presented to the National Trust the previous year. The parish council rented land off the National Trust for the use of local children.

Appropriately, Riddlesden's celebration of King George V's Silver Jubilee included children's sports, while the Briggs' home at Kildwick Hall was floodlit for the occasion.