THE Keighley fire station down Coney Lane – operational from 1888 to 1964 – is seen here under demolition after being superseded by new premises in Bradford Road.

It had witnessed a remarkable episode in 1902. The Edison-Tweedale Bio-motograph Company was filming a horse-drawn fire engine dashing out of its station, pretending to attend a fire, when it collided with “a line of mourning coaches and hearse waiting for a funeral party”.

Emphatically, this was not in the script: “The leading horse of the steamer caught the splinter-bar of the second mourning coach, ripping itself open and forcing back and shattering the coach, and throwing down the horse attached to this vehicle and the one in the next conveyance.”

As if this was not enough, a wedding party in a carriage and pair arrived on the scene and had “to retire owing to the wreckage in the street”.

The injured horse lingered for a month before having to be put down, while the resulting “animated pictures” drew large local audiences.

Another photograph from Kevin Seaton.