MANY notabilities visited Keighley during the Second World War.
The Cavendish Street headquarters of the Air Training Corps was officially opened in 1940 by the Earl of Harewood in his capacity as president of the Yorkshire County Association of Air Cadet Corps.
Here is a later inspection of 100 Squadron by Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Brooke-Popham. Nearest the camera on the left is Cadet Cullingworth, with Cadets J Woollard and P Moss next in line.
The Keighley unit developed what was thought to have been the only Air Training Corps choir in the country, whose members broadcast in 1944 in a programme called First Flights alongside Arthur Askey and the Billy Cotton Band. They sang We Are the Sons of the Lords of the Air and a special arrangement of She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain.
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