ALEX Keighley was a hospitable host, welcoming many organisations into his garden.

He had entertained 400 members of the Yorkshire Photographic Union in 1920, together with the 230-strong neighbouring St Stephen’s Church Guild, to an afternoon of bowls, clock golf and dancing, plus the performance of a dialect play, appropriately called Garden Party.

A party held at his home in 1938 to celebrate the 55th anniversary of his taking up photography attracted some 600 fellow photographers.

Here, in a characteristic hand-in-pocket pose, he stands beside his lily pond with a 1940s Steeton Rose Queen and her retinue. This was an annual event for many years, usually in June or early July.