PHOTOGRAPHER George A Shore couldn't get everybody into one shot so took at least two groups of Keighley's wartime special constables on parade one Sunday in 1941
PHOTOGRAPHER George A Shore couldn’t get everybody into one shot so took at least two groups of Keighley’s wartime special constables on parade one Sunday in 1941. This is one of the shots.
The occasion was an inspection by the Chief Constable of the West Riding, who praised their “extraordinarily high state of efficiency”.
The surviving pocket-book of one Keighley special constable records a prosaic routine of night patrols, checking the security of buffer depots or emergency food stores.
Just once he had to accompany a woman to a house where a man was “in drink”.
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