This mystery photograph has turned up in the collections of two local postcard buffs and supporters of Memory Lane – Kevin Seaton of Keighley and Ian Brierley of Haworth – but we don’t know whether the goat made a habit of standing on the donkey, or what W Heaton of Oakworth did for a living.

Presumably this is Master Heaton standing behind the donkey, though he already looks like a seasoned young entrepreneur.

Taken perhaps a century ago, the photograph represents a time when many boys kept rabbits and guinea-pigs, and our streets resounded with the clip-clop of a variety of horse-drawn wagons, carts, cabs and vans. For years a pony pulled a mowing-machine in Lund Park, and as late as 1953 some Coronation flower-baskets under the Cavendish Street canopy were watered from a horse and cart.

When Keighley’s trams were electrified in 1904, their horses were auctioned off by name. They were called Bob, Major, Billy, Buck, Sweep, Joss, Prince, Sullivan, Briton, Harry, Hawk, Pilot, Jack, Sam, Mick and Tom, and the mares were Star, Janet, Nell, Dot, Bell, Queen, Molly, Kitty, Dinah, Whitelegs, Kendal, Biddy, Susan and Lucy.

A receipts ledger of 1899 belonging to Keighley power loom makers and ironfounders George Hattersley and Sons includes the graphic entries: “Brown horse £13 Lame horse £8.10s Dead horse 7s.6d.”