This choir at Horkinstone Baptist Chapel, Oxenhope, was photographed in 1906.

Choirmaster Amos Dewhirst, baton in hand, sits on the right, with organist Victor Sunderland on the left. Amos Dewhirst, being a newsagent and stationer, could order his choir music through his own shop, the records of which offer a sample of their repertoire. In 1906 he bought 26 copies of 'Shepherd of Souls', 'They Shall Mount Up' and 'Stand Up', with 'On the Banks of Allan Water' and 'Ye Mariners of England' for secular relief - the latter, at 13 copies, was presumably sung by men only.

A choir like this occupied a wider sphere than its Sunday services, for chapel also formed the centre of its worshippers' social life. Public teas and Saturday-night concerts were as important as Sunday School anniversaries and missionary Sundays. The Horkinstone Baptist Chapel choir alternated sacred oratorios like 'From Storm to Calm' and 'From the Manger to the Cross' with comic songs like 'The Chinese Laundry Man' and 'Ain't Yer Ebber Gwine ter Marry Me?'

For some years they took part in the great Nonconformist Festivals in London, a demanding experience which necessitated leaving Oxenhope on a Friday night and getting back early on a Sunday morning.

Amos Dewhirst had served as choirmaster from 1896. When he retired in 1907 his choir presented him with "a handsome barometer and two massive bronze vases, the latter suitably inscribed."