IN a scene evoking a summer’s day in a leafy 1930s Keighley suburb, a smart white-coated and peak-capped pedlar of Fred’s Ices makes a sale in Raglan Avenue.
This ice cream tricycle was an enterprise of Fred Greenwood, who had opened a Fell Lane grocery store and off-licence in 1928, subsequently making ice cream.
After his ices were awarded a Grand Diploma of Merit at the Crystal Palace in 1936, Fred would join Keighley’s annual gala procession and throw out free samples to the spectators.
The boy on the bicycle was Frank Dewhirst, who was to teach mathematics for many years at Keighley Secondary Technical School.
His aunt Rosa Trigg, buying the ice cream, was a Methodist local preacher.
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