THE END of the Second World War was not the only one to be celebrated with street parties, for Saturday, July 19, 1919, was another official Peace Day, with festivities continuing over the weekend.
Keighley Parish Church bells rang and the Town Hall Square was illuminated by hundreds of electric lights.
Factories and Sunday Schools organised a procession of 30 tableaux with titles like The Spirit of France, the Task of Youth and Our Empire Girls.
“Never before,” commented the Keighley News, “have the streets been such a mass of bunting and flags.”
Ordinary neighbourhoods became “veritable fairylands”, with Parkwood, Lawkholme and South Street being “among the more gaily decorated quarters of the town”.
This was a party in Back Hill Street, near the bottom of Oakworth Road.
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