IN the days before everybody could take instant snapshots, excursions were often commemorated with studio portraits.

When Hartley Boardman, a young Keighley apprentice toolmaker, went to Blackpool with his mates in the 1930s, they paid a visit to the Valente Studio. This happy group with its complicated arrangement of chummy hands, was the result.

Obviously in those days young men on trips dressed in their suits and ties. Probably dancing would feature on their agenda.

Ironically, although the most prominent structure in Blackpool is the tower, they were pictured against a painted backdrop of it.

Hartley Boardman stands at the top right. The photograph has been supplied by his son, Mr Lee Boardman, of Raglan Avenue, Keighley.