AN unsophisticated genre of former chapel entertainment was the dialect sketch in which all the parts, male and female, were taken by women. Like most places of worship, Knowle Park Congregational Chapel, Keighley, had many ladies “who were not only excellent attenders at the Sunday services and the Women’s Pleasant Hour but also took their share in giving financial aid to the funds”.

Each March during the 1930s they would present a homely play – Mint Sauce, The Wrong Miss Wright, Pearls in Pawn, The Laird o’ Doonside, Doctor’s Orders – their offerings being invariably “anticipated with keen interest by a large circle of friends”.

Here is a dramatic moment from Chinese Puzzle in 1934. With costumes provided by the cast and their friends, such scenes illustrate the dress of the period, particularly here the between-the-wars motorcyclist’s gear worn by the fourth character from the left.