THIS slightly blurry image captures the busy interplay of Edwardian pedestrians at the top of Low Street.

Old photographs of this point, at the junction of High Street with Low Street and North Street with Church Green, usually include a policeman. What looks like a helmet appears right of centre, behind the shawled woman heading towards the camera.

The colloquial name The Cross derives, not from its location at a street crossing, but from Keighley’s old Market Cross, which used to stand at the North Street end of Church Green, marking the centre of the traditional Keighley parish. When in 1936 the zeppelin Hindenburg dropped flowers and a crucifix, they fell within yards of what the Germans presumably thought was still the middle of the town.