SCOUTS clamber about on the Rivock beacon at Marsh Farm during an impressive later stage of its construction.
It is being built "on approved lines in order to ensure a good blaze immediately on being lighted".
When Keighley's deputy mayor lit the beacon, he was accompanied by WH Cookson, chairman of the Boy Scouts' Local Association, who took this photograph.
In the diary I kept in my teens I described another beacon being built on Rivock for the 1953 coronation. Scouts "formed a human chain up a ladder along the side of the cone-shaped beacon, and they were passing branches and sticks up from hand to hand to one of their number who put them in place on the top".
But alas, Coronation Day was wet and miserable: "What became of the beacons which were to have been lit tonight, I know not... There seems to be no sign of any."
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