TYPICAL of a less sophisticated age, this 1920s motor-waggon doubled at weekends as Sunderland’s Chara or charabanc.
F Sunderland – ‘Residence 41 Catherine St.’, as the side of his cab informs us – plied as a carrier between Keighley and Oxenhope.
His waggon also delivered firewood.
On Saturdays, however, it was swept out and filled with seats, as seen here, proving useful for chapel outings and for transporting cricket teams to away matches.
This photograph was taken in Malsis Road, against a background of Lund Park’s practical railings which would be removed to help the Second World War effort, thereby allowing the park to be entered after dusk. This, it was feared in 1940, would be “something of a nuisance”, but it was naively believed “the good sense of the townsfolk will keep people from staying in the park beyond the recognised hours.”
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