One of the boys in this 1920s group of Scouts at St Mark's Church, Utley, is Mr Tom Shearing, aged 90, now of Derby.

His outstanding memory is of their visit to the great Imperial Jamboree at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924.

The Keighley district sent 87 Scouts to Wembley -- the largest Yorkshire contingent and "twice as many as either London or Bradford". In addition to St Mark's, they represented Keighley Parish Church and Utley Congregationalists, Steeton, Cross Roads and Oxenhope.

Their railway fares were paid by the Keighley Boy Scouts Association, and they stayed at the Jamboree for more than a week, taking part in such activities as huge campfire sing-songs and a service in the Stadium packed with thousands of Scouts from all parts of the world.

The British Empire Exhibition cost more than £10,000,000, a phenomena1 sum in 1924.

An "entirely new concrete city" was built to house it.

Each Dominion and Colony had its own pavilion, and there were Palaces of Engineering, Industry and Art, plus a replica of the tomb of Tut-an-Khamen and a Temple of Beauty featuring "the most beautiful women of the ages, from Helen of Troy and Cleopatra down to the present day".

Nevertheless, Mr Shearing remembers the Jamboree site as "a sea of mud".

The photograph was supplied by Mr Michael Shearing, of High Spring Gardens Lane, Keighley.