THIS candid group of wartime Keighley children was snapped by a teacher at Holycroft School when she took her class of five-year-olds into nearby Lund Park one summer’s day in 1941. The artless scene says a good deal.
Everybody looks happy, being quite unaware of the potential dangers of the period, and because, in the then rare event of a camera pointing at you, you smiled.
All seem in the best of health, partly because, at a time of food rationing, the prescribed diet tended to be straightforward but nutritious.
Three or four children have a visible strap across their shoulders. These held their gas-mask containers – compulsory baggage, at that stage of the Second World War, even on a little outing into a local park.
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