THE 1935 Silver Jubilee Day was celebrated with a chain of beacons across the country, the highest in Yorkshire being on Ingleborough.

Keighley had two, at Rivock and Hainworth.

Here, in its earlier stage of construction, is the latter, on land belonging to local politician and character Billy Coleman at Hainworth Shaw.

The little girl at the front, wearing her Silver Jubilee medal and sitting on Billy Coleman's knee, would marry a Keighley News reporter to become Mrs Audrey Broadley.

Keighley's beacons were built by Boy Scouts.

"The wood came from houses being pulled down during the slum clearance in Eastwood Row and Eastwood Square," Mrs Broadley recalled. "There were bugs is these houses and my brother came home with two on his shirt. Mother sent him outside to pull his shirt off and stamp on it."

At ten o'clock that Monday night the Hainworth beacon was lit by the mayor and the Rivock beacon by the deputy mayor.

From the hills around Keighley it was possible to see up to 12 other beacons. Festivities closed with campfire sing-songs and the National Anthem.