ALEX Keighley stands on the lawn at Steeton High Hall, on the right of a group of singers and musicians who performed at one of his Open Garden Sundays in the 1930s.

His dovecot is visible in the background.

Winning his first national competition prize in 1887, Alex Keighley had become a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood, devoted to aesthetic photography, and was noted for the romantic interpretation of the scenes he recorded both locally and abroad.

When he had travelled to Marrakech, he disguised his camera as a brown-paper parcel so that he could photograph the natives unawares.

His one-man exhibitions included galleries in London, Paris, Vienna, Munich and New York.

He was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1924.