READY for an early start for Blackpool on a Saturday morning in July, 1936, are some 200 employees of RV Marriner Ltd, of Greengate Mills, Keighley.
This day out commemorated the coming of age of John RL Marriner, who stands second from the far left next to his father, RV Marriner, head of the firm and also well-known as chairman of the Keighley Victoria Hospital Board.
The Keighley News of the period captures the mood of the occasion.
On arrival at Blackpool everybody sat down to lunch at the Arcade Café, “after which a vote of thanks was proposed by Mr W Ridehalgh, junior, and seconded by Mr HW Lister. Mr JRL Marriner responded, after which the party broke up to spend the rest of the day according to their individual desires”.
They left Blackpool at 11pm and reached Keighley at 2am.
That same summer the Keighley, Bingley and Shipley Chambers of Trade had a more ambitious outing to Edinburgh. Pupils of Holycroft School went to Liverpool, and St Anne’s scholars to London. Members of the Rotary Club stayed with tradition and went to Blackpool.
The photograph has been supplied by Susan Brunger, of Hailsham, East Sussex, whose father, Herbert Smith, stands between the Marriners and the man in the black hat.
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