THIS snapshot of 1953 epitomises the unselfconscious clutter of an old-fashioned tobacconists.

RC&H Seekings was in Low Street, next to the well-known Gott and Butterfield’s Arcade.

Like many similar businesses, it dealt in such sidelines as fireworks, whilst substantial advertising features in enamel or illuminated, like the Fry’s Chocolates and Craven ‘A’ for Extra Quality seen here, tended to become permanent fixtures.

Regular customers were often exhorted to join a Christmas Club.

Opened in 1935 by Robert Cecil Seekings, this was a popular shop in what used to be a very busy corner of Keighley.

Robert Seekings retired in 1969 and died, aged 90, in 1990.

The photograph was supplied many years ago by his son Peter, who remembered the “pleasant and courteous manner” in which his father served the public.