THESE pupils of Eastwood School put on a victory tableau in 1945, possibly during Thanksgiving Week that October, when Keighley celebrated with victory balls, a monster children's party, a schools' festival and a celebrity concert in the Ritz Cinema. The Old Grammar School girls held a Thanksgiving Gift Shop, while the Keighley branch of the British Women's Total Abstinence League had a Women's Victory Rally. The week raised £651,512 in National Savings.
The Eastwood children are representing civil as well as forces' characters, including a Land Army girl, a farmer, a miner, a munitions worker and an engineer.
The photograph has been supplied by Mrs Paddy Blowes, who can name everybody.
Back row, from left: Vera Slater, Brian Newiss, Tom Slater, Geoffrey Carr, David Nowell, Brain Pugh, Paddy Squires and Catherine Taylor.
Middle: Marie Spencer, Jack Sunderland, Joan Bolton, Freda Rhodes, David Seeley and Doreen Croad.
Front: Barry Ayto, Jack Martin and Colin Holt, with Margaret Maxwell as the nurse at the front.
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