Sandra Armstrong, Beryl Hammersley and Kay Bryan catch up on the gossip during the milk round
Thousands of people enjoyed two days of wartime nostalgia in Haworth.
Organisers of the annual 1940s weekend described it as one of the most successful ever.
The visitors even included a small group from Hamm, in northern Germany.
The event, most of which took place in and around Main Street, featured people in Second World War military uniforms, an air raid warden, a souvenir 1940s-style newspaper and vintage vehicles.
Allan Ross, a 52-year-old postal worker from Bacup, said: "It's brilliant this year. I've been coming since 2004 as I think this is the best weekend of its kind in England.
"The costumes are great, there's a really decent range of memorabilia and you can tell the organisers have put their all into it.
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"It's also a wonderful location for this type of event because the setting is so scenic."
Mark Latimer, 42, who was visiting with his wife, had travelled all the way from Norwich for the event.
"It is a long way to come but it's well worth the effort," he said.
"This is my third year, though the first time I've brought my wife. She was a bit uncertain about it but she's now demanding I bring her back next time."
The event also included a Royal Air Force flypast by a Dakota transport plane, a
re-enactment of a children's evacuation, 1940s music and dancing and guest appearances by "Winston Churchill" and "The Queen".
The weekend is organised by Haworth Traders Association.
The group's chairman, Pam Howorth, said this year's event was "amazing". She added: "It really was unbelievable - the street was packed out.
"The evening dances were all sold out and there were some absolutely gorgeous outfits. Both women and men were dressed to the nines."
For the first time the occasion featured a remembrance service outside St Michael's Church attended by war veterans and members of the Royal British Legion including 96-year-old ex-marine Albert Joyner.
Ms Howorth said: "It was so, so moving. There were quite a few people there with damp eyes.
"That's what remembering the war should be all about - so we don't forget that people fought for our right to be ourselves and to have freedom of speech."
On Saturday visitors also had a chance to watch a 1940s wedding re-enactment.
Tony and Jo Cox, who got to know each other at the 1940s weekend in 2002, held their official wartime-style wedding in Hartlepool last September.
However, they re-staged tying the knot
outside the parish church, with Mr Cox dressed in an American airman's uniform and Mrs Cox wearing a wedding dress she had made herself.
A group of about half a dozen Germans were brought to the weekend by Barry Thorne, of Bradford Disability Sports and Leisure Association (BDSL).
They had come to England to supervise a team of disabled German ten-pin bowlers.
Mr Thorne said: "Someone told me you can't take them to the 40s weekend', but they actually loved it. They had a fantastic time.
"It was completely and utterly new to them. We could hardly get them away."
To see all the pictures click on News/Picture Gallery/Haworth 40s Weekend.
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