THE 1937 coronation saw the whole town that May decorated with bunting and the slogan “Long Live Our King and Queen”, as seen here on the Halifax Building Society on the corner of Cavendish Street with Lawkholme Crescent.

“A well-balanced scheme of adornment had been most effectively carried out,” the Keighley News of the time described this example, “and the striking, but harmonious, result attracted much notice.”

The town hall was floodlit, a beacon blazed at Hainworth Shaw, and there was a fireworks display. Some 700 pensioners sat down to tea in the Municipal Hall, waited on by members of the Rotary Club. Their counterparts in the barn at East Riddlesden Hall were each given an ounce of tobacco or a packet of tea. Some 4,500 souvenir mugs and 1,000 silver spoons were presented to local schoolchildren.

Eddie Roberts, proprietor of the New Mansions Lodging House, threw an open-air dance in Turkey Street, which attracted nearly 3,000. Coronation trees were planted in Cross Roads Park, and a new bowling green pavilion opened at Haworth.

The photograph has been supplied by Mr Kevin Seaton, of Shann Lane, Keighley.