THE Kildwick Brass Band marches in the procession on a wet Keighley Gala day in 1907.
The group of men behind them were probably St John Ambulance men and volunteers who had served in the recent Boer War – for some years invited to join the procession – as some of the latter are wearing military caps and greatcoats.
Notice the two young men perched above the shopfront of Tillotson's decorators and paper-hangers, and the variegated spectators, with not a bare head among them.
The premises on the right-hand side of High Street remain basically identifiable, but this important thoroughfare used to narrow at Bridge Street, seen here in the left background.
Keighley's dramatic 1930s development would include the demolition of buildings between High Street and Damside, and the introduction of the High Street roundabout, incidentally the site of a wartime air raid shelter.
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