Henry Isaac Butterfield with the group of French workmen and their local hosts in 1905
HENRY Isaac Butterfield sits in the centre of a group of French workmen and their local hosts in 1905, when the Keighley Chamber of Trade and the Trades and Labour Council encouraged exchange visits between the town and the Parisian suburb of Suresnes.
The Frenchmen's stay included a visit to Cliffe Castle, where Mr Butterfield, who had spent much of his life in France, was able to address his foreign guests in their own language, and personally show them round his treasure-house.
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