This unidentified group must have been photographed about 100 years ago.
The words “Beer, Ale, Porter” can just be read on the sign above the door which, allowing for subsequent alterations to the windows, seems to belong to the New Inn, at Bocking.
The fact that all the men are wearing their hats or caps and some carrying their overcoats, suggests that they were about to set off on an outing, which at this time would probably be by waggonette, and would be for men only — the children shown here wouldn’t be going.
In 1902 the Keighley Glee Union broke new ground by deciding “that each member be invited to take his wife or sweetheart on the occasion of our trip to Bolton Woods and Skipton”, but the following year they reverted to the men-only custom!
The photograph was supplied by Eveline Rhodes, of Rose Meadows, Keighley.
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