WILLIAM Anderton Brigg, Mayor of Keighley in 1916, holds a sheep during an auction of livestock organised that October by the Keighley and Worth Valley branch of the Craven Tenant Farmers’ Association in aid of the Red Cross.
Others in the group, from left to right, are auction auctioneer Cecil Ackroyd, branch secretary Percy Asquith, C Bailey, auctioneer J Green, J Ackroyd, Sam Whitaker, and auctioneers’ clerk Holmes Ackroyd.
The auction raised £250. Its primary aim being to raise funds for a worthy cause, some lots were bought only to be resold – a bantam cockerel changed hands no fewer than 17 times!
There was an element of fun, with an auctioneer “declining to put his fingers in the bag” containing a ferret.
A similar but bigger event in Skipton the same day raised £1,200.
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